Word: relays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most notable successes of Schmidt this year came in the Yale meet where he gathered five points in two events, and at the Penn Relay Carnival when he was a member of the Crimson quartet which set a meet record over the 400-yard distance...
...your issue of May 4, under Sport, p. 57, describing the University of Texas relay team you say: "Next day the same foursome, together since freshman year...
...speak of our "tiny university's (fulltime students: 1,248) huge stadium." If your man was disappointed in the showing of the Eastern athletes, why didn't he say so? And incidentally his story of the Pennsylvania carnival was built around the performance of a sprint relay team from Texas and two boys from Ohio State, a member of the Western Conference. Small wonder, is there not, in being unable to write about any of your effete Easterners...
...this letter, no criticism of the well-established and well-managed Penn Relays is intended. We have the greatest respect for our rival relay meet. But, when reporting these events for national reading, do it accurately and in the same sporting attitude in which athletes enter the competition at both Penn and Drake. In short, TIME, don't be Provincial! FRANKLIN P. JOHNSON...
...same foursome, together since freshman year, smashed the 880-yd. record with the time of 1:26.6. "It's mighty fine country up this way," drawled Sprinter Wallender. Outstanding individual performance of the meet went to Ohio State's Charles Beetham, anchor-man in the two-mile relay, who ran his half-mile in an amazing 1:52.5, came from third place 20 yards behind the pacesetter to finish 20 yards in the lead. Negro Jesse Owens won the sprint medley for Ohio State by dodging through 13 other runners, passing six, giving his anchor-man the opportunity...