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Show RUNNER TO QUIT ATHLETICS Ted Meredith to Retire After National Championships Are Run in St. Louis in September. " Ted Meredith, considered by many to be the greatest middle-distance runner run-ner of all time, will quit the athletic arena for good after the national track and field championship of the A. A. U., which are to be held in St. Louis September Sep-tember 7 and 8. Lawson Robertson, coach of the University of Pennsylvania, who was f i , $ fi prlllilj tr r 1111 IwlP 1 Ted Meredith. engaged largely through Meredith's Instrumentality, Is the authority for this announcement of the Quaker flyer's forthcoming retirement. In the spring of 1912 Meredith first came into prominence by astonishing the athletic world by running a fast quarter-mile, at the University of Pennsylvania relay games as a member mem-ber of the Mercersburg academy one-mile one-mile relay team. Less than three months later he won the Olympic SOO-meter championship and raced on the SSOjards, setting a world's record of 1 minute 52 seconds. In the fall of 1912 he entered the University of Pennsylvania, and, becoming be-coming eligible to represent the Red and Blue the following year, has been the most conspicuous athlete on the American cinder path. His career as a college champion culminated last spring, when he set a world's half-mile half-mile record of 1 minute 52 1-5 seconds sec-onds In a dual meet with Cornell, and made a new world's mark of 47 2-5 seconds for the quarter-mile. |