Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-18
ATHLETIC STARS COMPETE.
IN THE HARVARD STADIUM
Olympic Candidates and National
a. A. U. Champions In n Bril-
liant Program.

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Athletes from all parts of the coun-
try qualified for places on the Amer
lean Olympic team In the final trials
ut the Harvard Stadium today In IA
track and field meet, the average of
which has never been cuunlcd. While
no world records were broken. two
American field event figures were sur
passed. In addition. two Amateur
Athletic Union senior championship
records went by the board ana an
other was equalcd.
Members Of the American Olympic
Committee who will select the team
which will represent the United
pressed the opinion Mat the 1870
anccd that ever sailed from these
shores.
The Olympic trials. which were
combined with the Amateur Athletic
Union annual senior championships
attracted more than 10000 spectators
to the Harvard Stadium. which afford
ed spectacle ,rivaling that seen, on
the day, of Harvard Yale football
game. Interest and enthusiasm were
keen and sustained throughout the
five hours OF competition. which open
ed with Il dress rehearsal of the pa
radc of nations. the inaugural fea-
ture of the Olympic games. Weather
and track conditions were perfect
and more than $4,000 was raised for
through admission charges.
Although the first four places In
each event alone counted in the Alna-
teur Athletic Union championship
OF the contests in order to afford
the Olympic committee working
basis for the selection Of the team
tomorrow In these qualifying trials
Eastern athletes secured hfty-two
places: Middle Western performers,
thirty. and Far West stars. twenty
seven. In general way the East
erncrs showed the best advantage in
the track events. while the Western
athletes We're strongest in the field
contests.
the record breaking. both In the
American and the Amateur Athletic
Union classes. Sol Bu,ler, the negro
sprinter and broad Jumper. from Du-
In the broad jump. displacing The
record made by Meyer Prinste!n at
Philadelphia in 1900. Prinstcin was
when he cleared "a feet 71-i inches
twenty years ago. Butler. who also
holds the American Expeditionary
Force broad jump championship. tried
for the worlds record OF "a feet II 81
inches. made by rat O'Connor In Eng
land in 1901, but failed.
Milton >. Angler. OF the Illinois y.
c.. was the other Wcsterner TO cstab-
lish new American record when he
shot out the javclin 1872 feet 10 "a
inches. surprising George y. 'Brondcr,
Jr's record of 1870 feet six inches
thluc at newark IN l9l6, while n
member of the Irish American a. c..
of New York. +. W. Toss. of the
Chicago K. ~. who tied for first place
in the pole vault, with thirteen feet
one inch, Il new y. \. L. mark, tried
TO better his world record Of thirteen
feet 3 ale inches. the bar being set
nj thirteen feet four inches. and all
but cleared it despite the fact that he
had been raultinE for more than an
hour previously. More than six high
jumpers cleared better than six feet.
and the winner, John Murphy, Of the
Multnomah y. c., of Portland, Ore,
was obliged to better his former y.
y. L. championship record OF six feet
BIG inches to win. Murphy cleared
the bar at six feet four and one
quarter inches in his winning jump.
but failed in his attempt TO break
the worlds record when the bar was
set Mt six feet eight inches.
Notwithstanding these spectacular
fcats. the distance runs produced the
competition that stirred the thou
sands of spectators to greater heights.
Although Joic Ray. the Illinois run
ncr. failed in his attempt to lower
the mile record, he won in four
minutes. sixteen and onc-fifth seconds