Word: drake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs I am always interested and occasionally amused at the way the editor of your Sport Department reports nationally interesting athletic events. The occasion for my latest bit of amusement is the comparison of the recent Drake and Penn Relays [TIME, May 4]. This fellow is obviously an Eastern man, or he would not attempt so often to belittle Midwestern and Far-Western events, nor would he show on occasions a total lack of understanding with regard to events held outside the eastern one-sixth of these United States...
...comparisons are still odious, it must have been extremely distasteful to your Sport Editor to consider the important aspects of the competition in the Drake and Penn meets this year. Compared in TIME were the 3,000 entries in the Penn carnival with the 2,000 at Drake. Not mentioned were the hundreds of high school, prep school, parochial school and grade school entries to which the Penn management caters, and which swell considerably its list of entries. Does this make the meet great? Not compared were the results of the respective meets, to most people far more important than...
Another humor-provoking excerpt states: "The biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays." The Queen was beautiful and occupied an important ten minutes in our crowded time schedule Saturday afternoon, but if she was the biggest attraction, 18,000 people missed seeing: 1) a new U. S. outdoor record at 1,000 yards (time, 2:11.2) by Glenn Cunningham closely pressed by a fine Eastern runner, Harry Williamson of North Carolina; 2) a new U. S. outdoor record in the two-mile run by Don Lash (time, 9:10.6); 3) a new record...
Annual bidders every spring for the best of the U. S. college track crop are Philadelphia and Des Moines. Many runners prefer the spectacle of the Penn Relays staged at Franklin Field. Others yield to the extravagant ballyhoo of the Drake Relays, held in that tiny University's huge horseshoe stadium. Last week Philadelphia's 42nd enticed 3,000 entries from schools and colleges; Des Moines' 27th, 2,000. Both groups gave spectators few records, many thrills...
Biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays. This year she was 20-year-old, blue-eyed Jane Mareton Phelps, daughter of Vice President Zack Phelps of Krebs Pigment Co., an E. I. du Pont de Nemours subsidiary. Queen Phelps is a junior at Northwestern, where she studies music, collects old bottles, broods over her two greatest ambitions : a big wedding, a big family...