The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-09
BETTERS NEGRO
MARK;R RECORD
IN 800 BROKEN
Georgia Tech Aces Jump Is
Quarter of an Inch Over
Michigan Stars Leap
LERMOND WINS 5000
After Losing 100 Meters, Pad.
dock Wins Heat of 200 Me.
ter Event in Record Time

| NdWUIIu8e, MdoS., July S.-Hj-
The worlds record for the running
broad jump was shattered in the
final Olympic tryouts Saturday aft
| ernoon by Ed Hamm, Georgia Tech,
ace, when on his first trial he leaped
the astonishing distance of Is feet,
11ls inches.
Hamm's great jump bettered by
! one quarter Of an inch the former
worlds record Of Is 1915 inches,
made in 1925 by De Hart Hubbard
in the last appearance Of the famous
Cincinnati negro as a representative
of the University of Michigan.
Hamm has been threatening Hub
bard's mark for the past few
months, jumping 25 feet 81 inches
in the south and leading the quail
fiers yesterday with mark Of IS
feet 2ss inches.
Hahn Skaters Mark
Lloyd Hahn, premier American
middle distance runner, smashed the
worlds 800 meter record when he
raced crack field into the ground
and broke the tape in l minute, 81
2/5 seconds, one-fifth second faster
than the mark set by DR.. Otto Pei
ger, German, at London in 1926.
The 5000 meter final was won in
sensational fashion by the young
Boston A. A. star, Leo Lermond,
who OUTRAGED his clubmate, Mac
Smith. and Dave Abbot, University
of illinois, in a ding-dong finish.
Smith, who had beaten Lermond in
the eastern trials three weeks ago,
nosed out Abbott at the finish as
the latter slowed up. but he was 20
yards behind the flying Lermond.
4 Abbott jumped out in front on the
4 last lsp and looked like winner, but
l La.o1 d passed him and won going
Lermond holder brother, George,
found the pace tco stiff and finished
in the ruck, as did Robert Hooper of
Southern Methodist.
The javelin finals altered the pre-
liminary standing and produced the
winner and new national champion
in Creth Hines, Georgetown athlete
from Texas. who hurled the spear
202 feet. ~ inches to set a new A.
A. u. championship record.
Anderson Wins Hurdles
The final in the 10 meter high
hurdles was won by Steve Anderson,
rangy University of Washington
timber topper, in a spectacular race
in which he equaled the worlds
record Of ii AS seconds. Ross
Nichols, Stanfor'', who had eoualed
this mark in yesterdays semifinals,
fell over the last hurdle and was
eliminated, being the fifth man in
the race.
Joie Ray, great little Illinois A. C. |
runner, already the chief marathon
hope Of Uncle Sam. turned his hand
to the light job Of 10000 meter rum
ming and broke the American record
by winning the tryout at the dis
lance in 81 minutes. % 2I5 seconds. !
The national A. A. U. champion |
ship shot put record, shaded yester- |
day, was broken for the second time |
by Herman Brix, University Of /!
Washington star, who hurled the 16 |
pound ball distance Of 50 feet.
11A inches. This was within a |
quarter inch Of the official worlds |
mark Of 81 feet, set by Ralph Rose
in 1909. but beaten this year by John !
Kuck, Los Angeles, as we'll as the |
German, Karl Hirschfeld.
The record pace kept up in the 200 |
meter class trials when Charley |
Borah, Los Angeles A. c., making |
his first start. romped off with the |
first heat in 81 rs seconds, beating !
Henry Cummings, Newark A. c., !
Virginia star, and lettering the
Olympic record by two-fifths Of a |
second. Borah looked to b, in prime !
condition.
Paddock Wins Heat
Charley Paddock, shut out in the |
100 meters Friday. renewed his |
comeback effort by leading the way
in the second heat in 81 2/5 seconds, !
also under the Olympic record. The !
Californian had no trouble leading |
Howard Jones, New York school !
boy.
Tom Sharkey, Dayton, Ohio, star. |
beat the Olympic mark in the third !
heat when he dashed down the |
stretch in Fl 2/5 seconds while |
Claude Bracey, Rice institute. Texas,
and Jackson Scholz, the Olympic |
champion, equaled the record of 81 |
3/5 seconds in capturing the fourth |
and fifth heats. Frank lombard, |
Los Angeles schoolboy, was shut |
out in the fourth heat.
Hamm, the new broad Jump rec
ord holder, was accorded q terrific |
ovation as he completed his trials. |
The stocky Georgia Tech. star went !
we'll over Is feet in another test |
after busting Hubbard's record, es-
tablishing himself as the greatest |
flat jumper America has ever pro-
duced. Hubbard, who also qualified
for the Olympic team, was consider
ed to have been in a class by himself
until Hamm started getting the long
range this year.