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Show 'DON'T WORRY IS 1 I EBY'S CODE I I I By Di:N SNYDER. i Lawson Robertson. Penn coach and guiding hand of this country's best ftalf-miler, Earl Bby, in saving him for the final test at tho Olympic finals be held In the Harvard stadium July 17. I realize the strain every runner miMt go through," says Robertson. "I believe that Eby can run. and win run, tiv 300-moter race In one minute and 52 seconds. Earl Is all right and, when the time conies for him to let out, he'll do it." Bby '8 running this year has been the subject of criticism, for the blond-haired blond-haired sprinter hasn't been going through hln paces In any world-beating time. He Is observing a careful course of; training Saves nimfielf. At the Intercollegiate on Franklin I field the Penn star barely pushed across the line ahead of the parade. The reason for his hanging bat I during most of this race has Just been disclosed He was setting a pace to! pull a fellow team mate. Brown, across the tape to count for Penn al point that was necessary to trim the Princeton Tigers Robertson sas that what the Ohr.i-ple Ohr.i-ple committee n.-.-ds is m n reudv to run in August, and the more they can be saved during the tryouts here at home the better form the) will be e.ipable of showing abro.nl The Penn half-mller Is a natural runner He shares Robertson's ideas in that too much training Lakes off the edge. "Don't take your training too seriously," ser-iously," says Eby. "Forgot it when w w - M you get out of your track suit. The , H trouble with some good athletes Is H that they worry about a race before it comes off and then keep thinking 1 about It ,i ft , r anl " j That Is Eby's code strong Field. Besides the Penn runner there are three other great performers at this distance. They are Crawford of Lafayi tte, ampbell of Yale and Msi -han of Notre Dame Meehan toolc j the conference half mile In 1:54 1-&: H strongest competition will be found ! in Rudd of England, Lawrence of Now H Zealand and Bolin of Sweden. All of '! them have done 800 meters in fa'sj time. ,j But America will start four half- fl milers all of whom have done the dl i ince in 1.54, and one of them at least ought to carry Uncle Sam s colors col-ors to a victory, |