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Show DECATHLON REPLACES PENTATHLON IN 1925 Pennsylvania Relay Carnival Carni-val Has Been Changed. Tin; pentathlon, which for n decade has liccn one of the feature events of 1 1 if annual I'nivcrslty of Pennsylvania relay carnival, will he replaced this year hy the decathlon. The action of the Olympic committee commit-tee in removing the pentathlon from the list of events and making the decathlon de-cathlon the test of all-around championship cham-pionship has caused Tr. (ieorge Orton, director of the ivlny carnival, to make the change. That the pentathlon served its usefulness use-fulness in developing athletes to represent repre-sent this country in the all-around championships was demonstrated hy the victories of American college ath-Icios ath-Icios In both the decathlon and pen-talhlon. pen-talhlon. The rcnnsylvanhi relay carnival has always I n niainlained with a view to keeping American college athletes pi'e-pareil pi'e-pareil for Olympic competition. It was for this reason that the discus and javelin were added to the program several years helore they were placed i.ii the list of events. in tiie I. C. A. A. meet. The events for the decathlon are, lOil-mcler Hat. running broad .lump, putting Ihe weight, runnini; hiuh Jump, llio-mcler Hat, 110-mcler hish hurdle, throwim; the discus, pole vault, throwing throw-ing the javelin and 1.. "00-meter Hat race. The liist five of these events will he h"!d on 1'riday, April 24, and the others oth-ers on the following day. Norton of ( Icornclown, who was second to Os-hi-riic in Ihe Olympic all-around championships: cham-pionships: Jones of Del'atiw university, univer-sity, and Honors of Pennsylvania are union;; Ihe most prominent entrant.?! for Ihe decathlon. In the ten years of pentathlon championships, cham-pionships, Howard r.crry of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania was the only athlete to win the title uilh five first places. lie performed per-formed this unusual font in 1017. |