The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-03-11
ONLY GOOD MEN
Will BE TAKEN
WINNERS OF EVENTS IN oLYM.
PIC TRY-ouTs MUST HAVE
GOOD MARKS TO co
WITH TEAM.

Try that u man has only TO figure well
in the different tryouts To be sure of a
place on the Olympic team for Stock
holm, that is, irrespective Of the mer-
its of his performance.
Although the executive of the Amer
lean Olympic committee has made no
Official rule on an athletes qualifica-
tons for selection it il understood TO
be contrary TO the view entertained
by the athletes.
That an athlete may win a first
place at any OF the tryouts does not
entitle him to the trip until the COM
mittee Is satisfied that he viii have
Il chance TO score place in the big
competition next July in Sweden.
In short, the performance must be
first class. for the committee Is not
going To spend money on men with
only lame prospects TO help out In
the grand total toward the point
championship. For instance, three
tryout program at Boston. Chicago
and San Francisco to test the walk
ers. and as far as the public form
of the front rank brigade Of this
class show there is hardly a heel and
toe artist between here and the Paci-
&c coast who could do much better
than % minutes in a style that will be
tolerated at Stockholm.
That these figures will cut a poor
figure is certain when il is remenn-
bered that there viii be at least three
men capable of coming well inside Il
minutes and well able TO maintain the
same cracking speed for any distance
between one and seven miles.
They are Goulding Of Canada, st.
Norman of South Africa, and Kerr of
Australia. That these, with perhaps
an Engishman or two, will be in at
the finish Of the distance walk is a
certainty, and to lose by trying with
even a % minute man would be serv-
ing no good purpose. In other events
it will be practically the same. There
are two men in the old world who
beat % feet in the running broad
Jump last year and as there is room
for improvement in both on account
of their youth they are likely Ia be
doing around p feet this season. 10
be hopeful of Clearing % feet 6 inches
against such foreigners would be
trusting too much 10 chance, so the
tryout man here who could not come
near this distance might as well be
left at home.
The same condition applies to the
running high jump. in which nothing
short of a man able 10 bound over 6
feet . inches will have a chance for
the place. PaSaman, the Gepman
champion, is credited with feet 3 Ia
inches and there is Il F'renchman ana
an Austrian almost as good. There
Is no doubt that q man like Lawrence
of the Boston a. A., who recently got
over feet 1-2 inches indoors would
be able to take the measure of these
Europeans, but he viii have his hands
full, and will need to be in the very
bes: fettle to land first place.
Almost every section of the United
States wants representative on the
team, and already kicks have been reg
stered from quarters that are sup
posed to be sighted. one OF the
first localities TO 20 on record as n
neglected district is Los Angeles. Cal,
and there is word from there that
there will be no financial help &c the
men from the bailiwlclx do not find
places on the team.
The followers of athletics think there
are crack performers in that part of
America and If all goes well they will
raise a fund to send their men TO the
front 1t should not be very diff
cult matter to collect as much as would
send half dozen men along. Mat
thew T.. Halpin, the manager OF the
team, has estimated that 1t will take
500 a man TO and from the Swedish
capital. so that about $4,000 would
suffice for the five cracks, who are said
TO be two swimmers. two track men
and a boxer although there will not
not be much to do for the last named
class of competitors in Sweden.
Another thing which has stirred up
some dissatisfaction on the coast Is
the arrangement of the tryouts. Los
Angeles thinks IL should have a try
out meet OF its own and not have
its athletes chasing to Frisco to en-
gage in the tryouts there.
As to the capabilities of the track
men and swimmers of the Los Angeles
section, nobody seems to know. but OF
one prospective Olympic candidate the
local athletic expert says:
Jack Warrington, who recently
broke into the limelight ut the Los
Angeles Athletic club as handball
shark. will be one of the strongest men
that organization will have on the
aquatic team"
Forrest Smithson. the great hurdler,
lives at Los Angeles, yet there is no
mention that he is TO make one OF
the team from there. 1t need not
worry Smithson for should he show
anything at all like his old form he
will not have to ask the Los An
gele's enthusiasts TO contribute a cent
toward his expenses.
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The New England league viii put
over something little out of the or
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