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CRIMSON MEN TO RUN IN PENN RELAY MEET

Merrill, Chapin, Fletcher, and Captain Burke to Compose Quarter--Ten More to Compete in Tomorrow's Events

This afternoon at the twenty-ninth Annual Relay Carnival of the University of the Pennsylvania on Franklin Field, four University runners will compete in a medley sprint relate race and a Crimson representative will enter the hammer throw contest. This squad left Boston yesterday and will be followed today by ten more University track men who will compete in tomorrow's events. In connection with the meet, there will be a meeting of the executive committee of the I. C. A. A. A. A. tonight in Philadelphia at which Manager Chandler will represent the University.

In its race today the Crimson relay team, which will be composed of Merrill, Chapin, Fletcher, and Captain Burke, running in the above order, will encounter some powerful opposition among the 13 other teams entered in the event. Among the strongest groups which will compete in the race are those from Princeton, Penn State, Cornell, and Georgetown, while the Chicago team will appear in the position of the "dark horse", not much being known of its possibilities. The complete list of entires in this realy is: Brown, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, Holy Cross, Kansas, Navy, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Pittsburg, Princeton, and Syracuse. Although then men competing in the hammer throw this afternoon have not been announced, Marshall, the University entract, will undoubtedly meet a strong field in his event.

This afternoon will be held the second of the informal meets between the Red and White sections of the traced squad, in which all the men not making the Philadelphia trip or that with the Freshman team to Andover tomorrow, will compete. In the first contest between these two groups, held just before the vacation, the Whites won by the score of 79 to 53.

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