Show RUNNER TO QUIT ATHLETICS ted meredith to retire after national championships are run in st louis louie in september ted Ile meredith redith considered by many to be tho the greatest middle distance runner of nil all time will quit tho the athletic arena to for good after tho the nat lopal track and field championship of the A A V U which are to bo be held in st L bouts louts september 7 and 8 lawson robertson Il coach of the university of pennsylvania who was all 4 Z x A 1 f 4 all 4 X wi W i ted meredith engaged largely through meredithe merediths hs instrumentality Is the authority for this announcement of the quaker flyers forthcoming retirement in tho the spring of 1012 meredith first cattle into prominence by astonishing the athletic world by running a fast quarter mile nt at the university of pennsylvania relay games as a member of tle the mercersburg Mercers burg academy one mile relay team less than three months later he won tho the olympic SOO meter championship and raced on zo tho yards setting a corids record of 1 I minute 62 52 seconds in III the fall of 1012 lie he entered the university of pennsylvania and becoming eligible to represent tile the red lied and blue the following year has been tle the most conspicuous athlete on the american cinder path ills career as a college champion culminated last spring when lie sot set a worlds half mile record of 1 minute 52 15 1 5 so sec onda in a dual meet with cornell and made a new worlds mark of ai 47 25 2 5 seconds for tho the quarter mile |