The evening world., 1920-07-19
Team u. S. A. Is Sending
To AntWerp Away BelOW
Standard OfI9I2ChGmpiOns

prising to see u better group OF men
toe the mark in the distance events
than the ones who performed here
during the National championships
FallOn and Earl Johnson, the col
ured runner from Pittsburgh, will
have to run faster next month than
they did Saturday If they expect to
be returned winners over Europe's
best.
In the hurdles Barron, Yount.
Smith and Murray win have to do
some tall timber topping II they
hope TO duplicate the feat of Kelly
Wendell and Hawkins. who captured
all three places at the 1912 Olym-
piad.
The weight men who will compete
for America at Antwerp are inferior
to Mcdonald Rose, whitney, Childs
and McGrath, who swept everything
before them in 1912.
The present team is decidedly
stronger in the broad and high jumps
and likewise superior in the discus,
javeAn and pole vault and in tho
walking events, also having an edge
on the mArathons, who were only
placed third in this classic in SWe-
den.
The recent dual meet at Philadel-
phla, where the oxford University
clearly demonstrated that as never in
the history OF track athletics will this
loOuntry be forced to extend itself II
! II wishes to cope with runners CT
the Rudd, Stallard and Montague
! type, who showed such brilliant
! flashes OF form a few months ago. In
fact Just in the places where the best
men are needed on this olympic team
they are missing.
Australasia at the Inter-Alhed games
produced IN Mason, who defeated
Earl Hby in the 400 metres. and the
New Zealand sprinter Lindsay two
excellent sprinters who will make II
decidedly interesting for the Ameri-
cans in these events.
Jack Moakley will have to bring all
his craftiness as an athletic coach INTO
play TO achieve what his predecessor,
the Grand Old Master OF the Ameri-
can cinder path, the late Mike MUIR
ply, did at Stockholm in l9l2-%in
IL firsts, IA seconds and ~ thirds.
/ Arthur Duffy, the great Georgetown
Splinter of the past generation and
incidentally the joint holder OF the
worlds record for a hundred yards,
wandered up to the National
"champs" as ne does every year an
ticlpating TO see his record erased
from the Official record books, but as
usual left somewhat disappointed
; They may clock sprinters In under
"eyens" out on the Coast, where th'
timers are perhaps a little more len
E tent, but in the Bast, where th'
: timers are perhaps the most efficient
! In the World, n nine-three or nine
: four has TO Zoe the real thing to ge
printed in the record books.
! Scholz, Murchison and Paddock
- might have done under 10 seconds hat
l. the track been in its customary shape
g but II was dry and the sprinters coul'
. not get their spikes into the grount
d the way they would have liked 10 70
o the Keeling of of a nine-four.
T. The track was never in worse con
. ditlon II Is apparent that during tn
T. war the one time fastest track in tn
= world was not properly cared for,
y Paddock seemed to break up hi
h form early in the running of the hun
y dred Anal, He - capable OF turnln
70 IN a ten second hundred, out he wa
ID trounccd, by both "Murch" and Scholi
n who closed in on the last twenty -fiv
yards like ''blue streaks" in eve
u time. Murchirpn won by nearly
J. yard from the tAst Missouri 'sprinteI
p "LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE"
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