Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-05-04
KANSAS CITY To
/ FURNISH STARS
Number of Her Picked
Men May Enter OIym.
pic Track Meet

Kansas City. No. MAY win
Kansas CITY be represented On the
American Olympic team that goes to
Stockholm. Sweden, in August To
compete for the worlds track and
field honors?
This question will be answered Ia
the Western Olympic tryouts at
Northwestern field in Chicago neXt
month, when eight athletes who hav
often performed to crowds In Conyen-
ton hall and on Kansas City cinder
tracks will compete with several hun
drcd OF the pick of the west While
II is a little early for a positive dec
laration that any Of our record break
ers will get chance TO show their
worth against the foreign wcarers of
the spiked shoes. western track say
ants who have held the stop watches
and the steel tape on Kansas City
performers. are confident AZ least two
OF them will cross the pond
One OF these men who is practi-
cally sure of place is Lee Talbot.
former Cornell weight star. present
captain of the Kansas CITY Athletic
Clubs track team, Western \. A. l..
champion in the shot. hammer and
discus. and considered one Of the
nations five greatest all round stars
In the heavy work
Track records OF the present day
fail 10 show a more consistent weight
man than Talbot Ne holds the
worlds intercollegiate hammer throw
record with hurl Of III feet. He
has put the 16 pound shot slightly
over as feet and thrown the discus a
little better than lio feet ralbo.
was second 10 Martin Sheridan, the
nations hest IN the Pittsburgh ma
tional championships last July with
mark of 1873 feet. ~ inches in
the discus throw, I'M. has beaten
Sheridan several times in the ham
mer. He was second 10 Pat NcDon-
aid OF the Irish-American Ajhieti,
club i'm the same meet In the sho'
nut hut has defeated Mcdonald In
both the hammer and discus ne is
not rs GOOD as Ralph Rose in the
shot. hut better than Rose in both
hammer and discus. Rose FLANAGAN
N,Grath. Mcdonald aud Sheridan ar,
poCl In one event each, hut aye fail
urcs as an round weight men. This
Is where Lee Talbrt's bid Is strons
Ills records heretofore have been
,Gade IN the regulation 6-foot circle
Nut he is man and should dc
mach better in the Olympic circle
which is : feet.
The second Kansas City rcpresen.
tative who has a fighting chance n
the Olympic tryouts next month is
Guy Reed. the diminutivc speed lie.
mon from Omaha. the best runner OF
the Kansas city Athletic Clubs three
time Western \ A. L championship
team Reed is Western \. \. I
champion quarter miller, although h,
mas never met the fast Davenport 81
Chicago University. Joint holder o'
the intercollegiate iio record OF
IS - seconds
Reed has a record Of - H.. made
in tho trials az PITTSBURGH last sum.
mer. although be was boxed In the
finals ana was beaten hv Linlbcr-
of the CHICAGO Athlcuy Club by d
Few feet in the time OF 60 flat This
was one " tho nations Greatest mid
die distance races, when all -four m'r
NJ tho finish could have been covered
with a blanket To win chance al
the Olympic trim Reed must compete
with Davenport. Young Of Amherst
holder of the record. Swayor OF
Princeton. Bonhag % the New Yorh
Athletic club. and liass and Gamble
of Michigan.
Reed ran the hundred ward dash
last wear In the western \ \ L
meet in Kansas CITY in . 4. second
and tho 900 IN 90 -. These two
marks we're the best made in each