Penn Carnival

An Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2 1/2 ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished a yard behind Lord Burghley. On the second day of the Penn Carnival last week Lord Burghley and his colleagues showed gentlemen from Yale and Pennsylvania how to win a 480-yard shuttle relay in a nasty rain, without knocking over a single hurdle. The U. S. boys slipped, floundered, smote down barriers, were almost out of sight when Lord Burghley finished for his quartet. The other significant event was the winning of the decathlon by Vernon Kennedy, an unsung youth from Missouri State Teachers' College. As everyone knows, it took pliable muscles and potent lungs even to finish this decathlon -- com posed of a 100-metre dash, running broad jump, 16-lb. shot-put, running high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500 metre run.