Evening journal., 1920-08-07
CGnderS viii GLO1U.Beneath
Spikes Of american Ol,mpians

Iin'y Wene luSt mere handiul o.
American athletes who slipped quietly
away 10 Athens in 1896 and won nine
firsts in the track and field events.
Since then we have gone through
our sixth International meet and up
held the precedent OF VICTORY.
Rightly or not we have come 10
look upon "A triumph IN those events
as equivalent TO winning the Olympic
classic.
Into This our seventh Olynpiad the
element OF the ia rNest has crept in
with its more stuniy type OF athletes.
on the team 73 come from that por-
lion OF the United States west OF and
including Chicago as against 40 from
The east. Now York leads all by fur
nlsIhhg %; IWenty-nine States are
represented.
II is the most representative squad
this country ever sent forth in quest
OF the olive leaf laurel.
As TO its strength-weH, we expect
II 10 bring home the bacon.
Unqualifiedly Americas sprinters
are the class OF the world.
Between Charles Paddock, Loren
MurchisOn and. Jackson Scholz there
is little choice. II there is any 100
metre runner who can beat Mirchi-
son 10 the tape, II oil be either Pad
dock OF SchOlz, it is believed
We are Just as strong in the 2OO-
metres. for II is in this longer dash
that Paddock is believed unbeatable
After the California ffner has run
30 yards he gathers more speed than
any runner ever clOcl1ed. Close be-
hind him should be Morris Kirksey,
the San Francisco sprinter.
Rudd, the South African runner, is
the man Frank ]. Shea and Ted Mere
dith viii have To watch in the 400
metres. Rudd is a great athlete. Also
in the S0O-metres he will be Earl
Ebys strongest competitor. But Eby
is "a smart half-miler. He uses his
, head as wen as his legs.
Coaches are still OF the opinion that
| yole Ray, the veteran. is the class OF
the world for the 1900 metres.
He'll have 10 beat Montaglfs. the
feet Englishman, but Joie should
turn the trick
All nations bow IN Earl Thomson,
The Dartmouth hmdler. who is rim
ming for our nirthern neighbOr, Can
| ada. over the i-2 foot sticks Tom
my IS supreme. but Americans
should cover up the places behind his
dust.
For the liO-metre hurdles Frank
Loomis. OF Chicago, is our top skim
mer, with Norton, Desch. Watt and
Meanix furnishing the chief compe-
| titiOn
our big snags seem most Hkely in
! both the 5000 and iOOOO-metre grinds.
Canada and England are entering men
with better records than any The
/ Yanks have turned in.
The same goes for the famous Mar
athOn. American coaches would be
very much surprised 10 see any but
foreign runners stride home in the
lead
John Murphy and R. w. Landon
have better marks in the high jump
! than those NJ either countries.
! Likewise r. X. Foss and p =. Mey-
ers should furnish the chief exhibit
ton in the pole vault And II Sol
| Butler. the Kansas Negro. doesn't out
! Jump the world in the broad Jump
IL viii upset the dope
The Fins should OuthOp. step and
Jump us. Also they ran shoot TIN
iavelin and whirI the discus farther
with their chief trouble coming from
Sweden.
But in the eights-iust watch the
New York whales Pat Ryan. Matt
McGrath and Paddy Mcdonald will
Just about give the whole entertain
| ment.
Sweden is regarded as Americas
strongest contender
But n they play the s-Star SpangleC
Banner" every time an American ath.
lete COPS "a first the stadium crowds
VIII all be whistling our national an
them like II was their own before the
fcurtain is rImg down on the seventh
| OlymDiad