The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-16
OLDOLYMpIANS
Will Be SCARCE
Few Members Of Stockholm
Team Have Chance to
Make Trip to Antwerp.

That eIzht years is 9 long stretch
Of time in athletic life Is well proved
by o glance over the list OF veteran
eligibles for the American team that
will 20 to Antwerp next summer for
the Olympic games. ,.....
With the possible exception OF Davy
Caldwell. the Boston veteran who stu
boasts Of a bit Of championship form
and that comes to the Byeheld farm
er in streaks-every runner who did
his bit in the American track and
field victory at Stockholm In 1917 has
passed into the athletic beyond.
Caldwell Is the sole remaining MEM
Der Of the track division that swung
the Stars and Stripes to the breeze.
victorious. at the big international
carnival In StockhoIm's great stadium.
Craig. Meyer. Lippincott. Reidpath.
Meredith. Davenport. Taber. Ktviat.
Jones. Berna- Bonhag. Kramer. and
the rest OF them have all retired from
the track to run no more. Old Davy
is hanging OIL by n shred. He has a
fighting chance to make the Antwerp
trip next summer by training as he
the team at the eastern try-outs.
Kelly May Make Trip.
Among the hurdIers Fred Kelly.
whose speed, and skill over. the tim
bers was supreme Mt Stockholm. alone
remains a possibility for the 1870 team.
Kelly Is still very much OF hurdier.
as proved by his splendid running
against the great Bob Simpson in the
, national championships at Philadel-
phia three months ago. The jumpers
| too. have practically all passed on 10
| the retired champion class. Marc
Wright OF the Boston A. A. alone re-
manning in active competition. Zen
Adams has announced his intention OF
returning TO competition for the Ant
| werp trip, but 1t Is by no means seer
| tain that Big Ben will ind his
muscles as nimhle as was the case
eight years ago.
The weight throwers should make
a better showing. II Is totally possible
that three OF the big men who helped
carry the point banner for Uncle Sam
in 1912 will grace the opening parade
around the Antwerp stadium next Au-
gust. These are Pat Mcdonald. who
won the best hand shot put at
Stockholm: Matt McGrath. who holds
the Olympic championship at throw
ing the ,sixteen-pound hammer. and
ArIie Mucks. the big Wisconsin
farmer who went to the Stockholm
meet as an undeveloped boy. but is
now acknowledged to be one Of the
most skillful men in the world with
the shot and discus.
Duncan In France.
Lieutenant James II. Duncan. for
merIy Of the Eleventh Engineers. who
took q place in the discus throw In
1872. may be on hand for the Antwerp
games. Jim stayed In France on the
conclusion of the war and is now
busily engaged In reconstruction work
there. He will probably find time TO
get in shape next summer 10 repre-
sent the same flag at Antwerp that
he did so CALAMITY in the battle OF
Cambria i'm 1917.
Outside of the weight men there is
not a man among the 1877 Olympians
who will try again next year that is
granted a chance to do more than
make a fairly creditable showing. II
is hard TO picture a more convincing
illustration OF the ineXorable march
OF time in the athletic world than the
outlook for the makeup of the Ant
werp team. as regards the possibility
OF former Olympians being among the
chosen American representatives.