The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
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'Scholz Is Sensation Of Olympic Races, Whil. Paddock Falls Below Expectations

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June Is. (By the Associated Press.)--American hopes of another international track and field triumph in the 1924 Olympic games in Paris were raised to high i. pitch today when the pick of Uncle Sam's athletes, competing in the pre- . liminaries of the final try-outs at the Harvard stadium, smashed two world records in one of the most remarkable exhibitions of speed and brawH ever witnessed.
 Sensational performances in nearly every event exceeded the expectations of the most ardent Yankee supporters and with prospects of even more spec tacular competition tomorrow, America promises to enter the Olympic lists with an array of stars as formidable as any she has ever sent in search Of Olympic conquest.
 Eleven. Records Fall.
 No better proof of the brilliant cal ibre of today's tests can be given than the fact that Il performances bettered present Olympic records, while three others equalled International stand- ards,
 
 out brightly against this vivid back ground of athletic achievement were : hung; up by Jackson Scholz,. veterans New York Athletic club sprinter, who established a new 200-meter mark of 21s seconds flat, and J.sCoard Taylor, clubmate and former intercollegiate champion, who created a new mark of 48 1-10 seconds for the 100-meter run. Sharing the glory of this performance with Taylor was Ray Robertson, of the Boston A. A., who won his heat, equalling Taylors remarkable time.
 SchOIz Stars.
 Seholz, whose comeback to form has been an outstanding feat of the year, was the brightest of the meets stars, for he also won twoz 100-meter trials in the Olympic record, eQualling his time of 10 6-10 seconds and in one of them conquered Charley Paddock, Cali fornia dier and Olypmic champion.
 Scholz's time over the 2O0-meter dis tance clipped one-tenth of a second of the world mark set only two weeks ago by Eric Wilson, Iowa university crack, who today showed his versatility by starring in the 400-meter run.
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 Paddock, who finished only fourth in his second 100-meter test and was in- cluded among tomorrow's fnalists only by special decision of judges, came back to show his old-time speed in the 200-meter trials, in which he won his heat handily in 21 2-10 seconds.
 Paddocks time equalled the record he has held until it was beaten by Will. son at Iowa City Olympic try-outs.
 Another champion met defeat in the 100-metre dash when Ali Leconey, for mer intercollegiate sprint king, van Quished Loren Murchison, the national title holder, in the semi-6nals. Frank Hussey, sensational New York school boy, came close to nipping Murchison with brilliant closing squirt and by finishing third clinched his place among the seven stars who enter the finals.
 2OO-Metre Dash Close
 The 200-metre dash witnessed the most consistent brilliancy of the meet for victors in all four eclipsed the Olympic record time of q 3-5 seconds. Besides Schoiz and his world record perform ance, the winners were Paddock, Mur- chison and Fred Lovejoy, of the New York Athletic club. 4OO-Meere Race G0Ou
 Performances in the 400-metre hur- dies also were unusually fine with three western stars, Taylor of Grin nell, Brookins and Coulter of Iowa, all bettering the Olympic record of 64 seconds. Feats in the field events failed to measure up to the high stand ard set in track events, although the Olympic Athletic club, with a toss of 1S0 feet 10 1-4 inches and also by his teammate, Tom Lieb, who hurled the plate 14S feet IA inches, DeHart Hubbard, Michigan negro star, jumped 25 feet 3-8 inches on his first trial, a brilliant leap that stood unequaled the rest of the afternoon.
 110-metre hurdles (13 qualify for second trials).
 Robert Maxwell, Pomona college; George Koegness, San Francisco; D. A. Kinsey, Illinois; H. Guthrie, Ohio State; F. P. Johnson, Chicago; Fl. L.. Moore, North Carolina; Charles Fl. Moore, Penn State; John Fowler, Min nesota; Raymond B.. Wolff, Pennsyl- Yania: Charles Reggs, Los Angeles; Leighton Dye, Southern California Hugo Leistner Stanford; Karl Ander- son, Chicago; Best time: Johnson,
 4oO-metre hurdles, -four qualify for
 Charles R. Brookins, Iowa; Ivan Riley, Chicago; G. Taylor, Grinnell; c. F. Coulter, Iowa.
 Best time: Taylor, 53 seconds.