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Show o a NEW TIME EXPECTED IN 300 YARD RACE NEW YORK, May 4 Track experts ex-perts expect the record of 30 2-5 seconds sec-onds for 300 yards to be broken during dur-ing the Intercollegiate championship games at Cambridge May 26 and 27. if the governing officials permit Allen Al-len Woodrlng. the Syracuse university star, to make a special attempt Woodrlng is the athlete who snatched victory in the one mils championship race from Princeton st the University of Pennsylvania relay carnival last Saturday, overcoming a three-yard handicap that fell to him in lasc quarter mue. He mane the distance In 45 2-6 seconds, which Is but 4-5 short of tho world record made by Maxey Long on a straightaway straight-away quarter mile strotch. If the Syracuse sprinter, who made hlsreputatlon in 1920 by capturing tho 200-metre run In the Antwerp Olympiad, does break the 300-yard record, he will bo entitled to greater credit, than goes to the present holder. Charley Paddock of the University of Southern California, who establish ed it In April. 1 9 l at Redlands. The wing-footed Callfornian made the record on a straightaway track but Woodrlng, if the race against time is sanctioned, will not have that sdvan-tage. sdvan-tage. .oi4 ie-s anxious than Woodrlng for th try at a new record is Tom I j.rophe... -s .h-; MK ...rd.ncr K"?n -0" bov paddock |