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Show 1 LIGHTBODY BREAKS STUDYING RECORDS Tribune Special Sporting Service. i CHICAGO. April 11. Alonzo A. i Siagg, director of -physical culture at 1 the University of Chicago, plans a new conquest of the .Fast, with bis track i athletes. For many years ho has sent u one-mile relay team to the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania games, and twice he has returned with his team a national champion. A I third time his quartette ran such a closo second that the judges never wore able to agreo unanimously on tho winner. win-ner. 7 Now Ihe Midway chief is figuring ou a -two-mile relay team made, tip of half-milers half-milers to send against the 8S0-3ard runners from Yale. Princton, Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell and Pennsylvania. His two-mile quartette is to be in addition addi-tion to his one-mile toum, which will again race at Philadelphia. " Stagg has been keeping close tab on his trat'.k material despite the long distance dis-tance that has separated him from the campus during tho winter months. If has the best squad of quart er-milers that has ever trained on ihe. Midway, and if one man regains his eligibility a two-mil team will be gathered together. to-gether. This atholeto is James Light-bodv, Light-bodv, Olympian champion ami world's hero generally. Lightbody found school work difficult to comprehend, and so I the facultv asked him to keep out of the limelight of tho athletic world for a while. .Recently, however, he is said to have, broken all past records iu his studies and the chances are for his roturn to track work. Liglitbody, if he runs, will bo a member of both the one-mile one-mile and two-milo teams. |