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Show BERRY WINNER OF PENTHALON Yale Carries Off Medley Event I and Pennsylvania Captures I Sprint Honors. Philadelphia April 23. Howard Perry of the University of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania today carried off the pentathlon, pentath-lon, one of the principal events in the opening day's carnival of Pennsylvania's Pennsylva-nia's rela rares and fielrl sports The pentathlon, which is comprised of the broad jump. jae!in and discus throws, and the 200 and 1 ..",! n metre races, was on the program for the first time in the twenty-one years that Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania has held the carnival. Yale after a game struggle, carried car-ried off the distance medley reia race for the American college championship, cham-pionship, beating out Chicago, while Pennsylvania Qasllj won the American Ameri-can title in the sprint medley race from Chicago, the ony other pntrant in this event There were six contestnats in the pentathlon and the result was not decided de-cided until the last event the 1,500 mater race, was run. Worthlngton of Dartmouth, finished second; MeMas-ers MeMas-ers of the University of Pittsburg third: Lamb of Pennsylvania State college, fourth and Creighton of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, fifth There was some disappointment v, hen only Chicago and Pennsylvania toed the mark in the sprint medley, the other universities saving their runners for tomorrows championships champion-ships Thirago led at the end of the first two relays, then Lippincott and Meredith, the Olympic champions, In turn took up the running for Penn ' vania and they made a runaway race of it One of the best performances of the day was the lime made by Fergusan of Pennsylvania in the first quarter-mile quarter-mile hurdle race H- won the event in 65 seconds, on!;- two-fifths of a second se-cond slower than the world s record made In H. L. Hillman of the New York A. C, in 1104. The big features of tomorrow's events will be the one, two and four mile relay national championships an I tlie 100 yards dash. In the sprint there will be among other;:. Prow of south ern California, who with D .7. Kelly holds the worlds record of 0 3-5 seconds |