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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...
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...
...weak Tech outfit, today's Compton Cup races should offer a fair gauge of the seventh Harvard Varsity to be coached by Charlie Whiteside. Reports from the Tiger's anchorage indicate that they are not at all dismayed by their recent length-and-a-half defeat by Penn, nor have the changes made by Gordon Sikes during the last week, when Fenniger was moved up from the Jayvees to set the beat for the initial outfit, diminished their hopes one whit. They still expect to take the cup again today as they have for the past three years...
...Jaakko's record as head coach has been very successful, his teams winning the Quadrangular Meet and coming third in the I.C.A.A.A.A. meet this winter. In spring track the team won the G.B.I. meet handily in spite of the absence of four crack hurdlers who went down to the Penn relays to set a new record in the 480-yard shuttle hurdles...