PENNSYLVANIA RELAY CARNIVAL TOMORROW

The 1916 outdoor track season will be opened officially with the 21st Annual Pennsylvania Relay Race Carnival at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, tomorrow and Saturday. All the Eastern and Western colleges are sending large squads and the present prospects show that there will be keener competition and more interest at large than ever before. Small colleges, which have not entered before, have sent in their entries as well as many of the preparatory and high schools. The events on Friday are only preliminary to the chief attractions of Saturday, which include the one-mile college relay race championship, open events, sprint, medley, and long distance relay events, as well as the interesting Penthalon, corresponding to the famous Olympic Penthalon.

The star event, as last year, promises to be the one-mile college relay race championship, and towards this the eyes of the athletic world will be turned. Last year Pennsylvania, with a wonderful quartet, set up a new world's record of 3 minutes 18 seconds, although hard pressed all the way by the University. This year's one-mile relay race seems now as if it would be even more thrilling, as several fast relay teams are being brought on from the Western colleges. Pennsylvania's quartet will be practically the same as last year--Kaufman, Lennon, Dorsey, and Meredith--with the exception of Lockwood, who does not seem to be in shape yet. The University's team, however, appears a little stronger than the one that forced Pennsylvania to establish a new record last April. Although R. Tower '15 has graduated, it will have H. W. Minot '17, T. R. Pennypacker '16, or A. Biddle '16 to fill his place, besides W. Willcox, Jr., '17, E. A. Teschner '17, and Captain W. J. Bingham '16, all members of last spring's aggregation. Princeton and Yale have strong teams entered and may figure more prominently in this event than is expected at present. Wisconsin and Chicago have entered teams that made fast time in races held recently, and either one may give Harvard and Pennsylvania a hard struggle for premier honors.

In the two-mile relay championships, Yale is the favorite with the same strong team which defeated nearly every team that was met last winter. Princeton, who won the event last year, setting up a new college record of 7 minutes 55 3-5 seconds, has entered a good team but one not as fast as last spring's record-breaking one. Pennsylvania and Michigan have teams fully capable of keeping in front.

The distance medley relay race which was won last year by Yale will again be closely contested by Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Cornell. The Westerners do not appear as strong in the distance relays as they do in the sprint races.

The sprint medley race will be fought out between Pennsylvania, Yale and Princeton. Chicago, Wisconsin, and Michigan have fast quartets but not up to the calibre of the Eastern colleges. The University has not entered a team in either of the medley relays.

The open events present as formidable an array of brilliant performers as the relay races. The pole-vault will have such vaulters as G. G. Haydock '16, Cary of Princeton, Newstetter, Foss of Cornell, Buck and Nagel of Yale. All these men have cleared 12 feet easily at meets during the winter. Newstetter and Foss vaulted 12 feet 10 inches last year. With such high-class performers, competition should be spirited. The 100-yard dash will bring together the best sprinters in the country, among them E. A. Teschner '17, Treadway of Yale, and Moore of Princeton.

The two jumps, broad and high, will probably develop into a struggle between Oler of Yale and Richards of Cornell. Both men are capable of 6 feet 4 inches in the high and over 22 feet in the broad jump. Worthington of Dartmouth, J. O. Johnstone '16, Bertolet of Pennsylvania, and Hampton of Yale should show up well in the broad-jump, while Crane of Pennsylvania and J. O. Johnstone '16 may place in the high-jump.

In the 120-yard hurdles Starr and Gubb of Cornell should be in the front. Crawford of Princeton, H. J. Coolidge '16, and Warren of Pennsylvania are also entered. Little can be told about the 440-yard hurdles, as it is a comparatively new event. Ferguson of Pennsylvania won this event last year, creating new figures. H. W. Minot '17 is entered in this event from the University.

Richards of Cornell and Donjas of Pennsylvania are consistent performers in the shot-put. Brown of Yale and Matthews of Pennsylvania will be strong in the hammer throw, and Donjas of Pennsylvania should win the discus throw.

Berry of Pennsylvania and Worthington of Dartmouth, winners of first and second places in the Penthalon last year, are again entered in that event.

Athletic enthusiasts expect this meet to be a record-breaking set of games and great interest has been aroused over it throughout the country.