Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-18
No Worlds Records Fall at Olympic
 TryOuts in East

Cambridge, July IT Athletes from all parts of the country qualified for places on the American Olympic team in the final trials at the Harvard sta dium today in track and field meet the average of which has never been equalled.
 While no world records were brok- en, two American field event figures were surpassed In addition two anna teur athletic union senior champion ship records went by the board and another was equalled.
 Members of the American Olympic committee who will select the team which will represent the United States at Antwerp, next month, expressed the opinion that the 1920 combination would be the best balanced that ever sailed from these shores.
 The Olympic trials, which were com bined with the amateur athletic union annual senior championships, attract ed more than 10000 spectators to the Harvard stadium.
 Weather and track conditions were perfect.
 Although the first four places in each event were scored in most of the contests in order to afford the Olym- pic committee a working basis for the selecting of the team tomorrow. In these qualifying trials, eastern ath- letes secured 52 places, middle west, ern performers 30, and far west stars 27. In a general way, the customers showed to best advantage in the track events, while the western athletes were strongest in the field contests
 Three events of the regular A. A. U program were not stag. ed today, having no Olympic equiva. Tents, and for that reason final team or class awards cannot be made un. til later in the season, when these con tests have been held.
 In the events of today the New York A. c. led with 37 1-2 points. The Chicago A. A. was second with 3s points, the Illinois A. c. of Chicago third with IA 1-2 points and the Olym pic club of San Francisco and the To! Angeles A. c. tied for, fourth plac, with II points. The U s. navy tean came next with II points. Numerous other clubs and colleges, as we'll a unattached athletes, also scored. Western athletes scored heavily il the record breaking, both in the Amer ican and the A. A. U. classes. So Butler, the negro sprinter and broa, jumper from Dubuque, leaped "A fee 8 inches in the broad jump, displacin, the record of 24 feet ' IA inches b, Meyer Princeton at Philadelphia il 1900.
 Butler tried for the worlds recor, of 24 feet II 3-4 inches made by Pa O'Connor in England in 1901 bu failed.
 Milton S. Angler of the Illinois A c. was the other westerner to estab fish new American record when h. shot out the javelin 192 feet 10, B. inches, surpassing George A. Bron der, Jr.'s record of 190 feet 6 inches F. K. Foss of the Chicago A. A., wh 1 tied for first place in the pole vaul with 1S feet 1 inch, new A. A. U mark, tried to better his world recor, of 1S feet 3 9-16 inches, the bar be ing set at 13 feet inches and all bu cleared it despite the fact that he has been vaulting for more than an hou previously.
 More than six high jumpers cleare, better than six feet and the winner John Murray of the Multnoman A. c of Portland, Ore, was obliged to bet ter his former A. A. U. cahmpionshil record of 6 feet 3 1-16 inches to win Murphy cleared the bar at feet r. inches in his winning jump, but failed in his attempt to break the world. record when the bar was set at { feet inches.
 The 10000 meters run developed keenest enthusiasm of the day. Free M. Taller of the Dorchester club, Bos ton, and R. Earle Johnson. negro runner of Pittsburgh, reputed to bt the fastest man produced by his racs M AVhS oiStNhNSS WChI to tHc lIOI with Amesoni, diminutive Indiar from Haskell Institute, Kansas. The little Indian was too slight of built to stand up long and was shaken off the track after a few miles.
 In the other principal distance events, the 5000 meters run, H. H Brown of the Boston's A. A. intercol. legiate star won impressively, while Gordon T. Nightingale, conqueror oi the English distance star, Montague at the Pennsylvania relay games, was forced off the track by the pace.
 One former Olympic star flashed again today when Ted Meredith wor second place in the quarter mile run close behind F. J. Shea of the navy Howard F. Drew, the negro dean oi the present day sprinters, failed 1T his effort to come back, being shut out in the 220 yard dash after he had abandoned his qualification in the 10C yards event.
 Charles w. Paddock. the western sprinter ,eoualed the long standing championship record of 21 2-4 sec.