Evening star., 1924-06-15

will be held July to l3
Despite a chilling rain that sv
c1nder path, one world record wa
Olympic standards equaled, one was
IN the spectacular closing battle 70
teats, a recapitulation for the two
three world records shattered and
surpassed in fourteen instances and
Jackson Scholz, New York Athletic
CLUB, whose machinelike stride de-
voured space in astonishing time yes
terday. came back in the 200 meters
TO break the world record for the sec
ond successive day in the most bril-
liant individual performance of the
tryouts. His time of 20 9-1O seconds
made In semi-final heat, was one
tenth of second faster than the
mark ne set yesterday, and, consid-
ering the unfavorable condition under
which 1t was made, ranks among the
startling sprinting feats of all time
Paddock Runs Last.
Scholz followed this by triumphing
decisively in the final heat in 21 sec
onds fat, race in which Charley
PADDOCK, California flyer. disregard
. ing the advice of Lawson Robertson.
head Olympic track coach, suffered
one of the worst setbacks of his
career by finishing sixth and last.
Paddock, Olympic 100-nreter cham
pion. went victorless altogether in
the finals, for the best he could do
IN the shorter race was dead heat
Tor second place with Scholz. with
chester Bowman, fleet Syracuse star.
leading the way in time that eGualed
the Olympic record of 10 clio seconds.
The chunky Californian pulled up
slIghtly lame in the 100-meter final
and was advised by Robertson to
withdraw from the concluding test at
200 meters, in which he previously
had won his semi final But Paddock
nefused to disappoint the crowd of
so'ooO eager to see him in the final
test and after making a gallant race
with the leaders for $50 meters wilt
ed and dropped back quickly
50 keen was the battle among the
after long deliberation. picked ten of
them for the team without placing
them in their events. leaving until
later final assignments to either of
Lne @ dashes or to the 4o0-meter sprint
All of those among the seven 100
meter and six 2oo-meter finalists
TeTetoy ye'efted ef sbe in SsW addoG Fred
Club. who was shut out in the semi
finals of the longer dash Frank
Hussey, sensational New York school
boy. who finished fourth in the 100,
proved his mettle against the worlds
greatest sprinters. while Loren
Murchison. national champion. was
allotted berth in spite of the fact
seventh in the 100 final and was
shut-out in the 200-meter semi
finals.
Equally as stirring as the sprints
J. Coard Taylor of the New York
Athletic Club stamped himself as the
king pin of quarter milers when he
turned apparent defeat into victory
was .clocked in 4S lilo seconds.
equaling the world record time he
set yesterday.
Alan Heinrich, Penn State captain
ished last in the 4Oo-meter event, but
was picked among the seven on the
team who viii figure in this race at
Paris 4,hs or soo the 1.6oo-meter relay.
fash to the fore in william Rich
ardsJn of Leland Stanford, who led
sucl aces as Schuyler Enck of Penn
state, Ray Watson of the Illinois
ath19tie AZ stvs Club 81 md. and "soapy" Waters
yards from the finish and just gain
ed fifth place. while Larry Brown of
the Penn Athletic Club barely finish
In the committees half-dozen selec-
tions.
The 4O0-meter hurdles, in which
the Olympic record of 81 seconds was
of western cracks, witnessed a
triumph for another unheralded star,
George Taylor of Grinnell College,
Iowa His final heat victory in
ond short of the world mark set two
weeks ago by Ivan Riley Of the Il
linois Athletic Club, who today was
fourth and last in the finals. These
two. with Rrookins and Coulter,
team selections
Rny Among vfctors.
Joey Ray, doughty Illinois Athletic
Club star and veteran of 1920
Olympics, sprang a surprise by with
drawing from the 1.5oo-meter run,
which was run in American record
equaling time by his teammate. Ray
Buker. but the mile king came into
his own with brilliant victory at
5000 meters
Ray shifted events on the advice
of coaches, who are convinced his
best chance of victory abroad lies in
the longer race, though by foregoing
the 1,500-meter event Joie probably
will miss a schance to match strides
with the great Finnish champion,
Paavo Nurmi.
The 110-meter hurdles furnished
another example of the prominence of
new stars in Olympic material when
H. Guthrie of Ohio State University
swept across the sticks first in the
finals. Five were picked for the
team in this event, including F. p.
Johnson of the Illinois Athletic Club,
who equaled the world record OF
1870 second in semi-final heat,
and his clubmate, Karl Anderson, ma
tional champion.
The attack on world records in the
field events did not meet with the
success thai marked cinder path per-
formances, but Olympic figures were
surpassed by the first two finishers
in the discus throw, Tom Lieb and
Gus Pope, both of the Illinois Athletic
Club.
Four pole vaulters cleared 13 feet.
DeHart Hubbard, Michigan negro !
star, outleaped his field by more than
a foot in the broad jump. with q |
mark of Is feet y inches, while Bud
Houser of Southern California sprang |
q surprise by topping the shotput
aces with a toss of 40 feet 11A
inches, with the intercollegiate cham
pion and favorite, Glenn Hartranft of
Leland Stanford, in second place.
While schoolboy stars such as Hus- |
sey and Bill Cox of Mercersburg, in the |
S 900 meters, and Lee Barnes Of