Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
C 81 Victory Many Marks Fall in Final Olympic 7es
HAHN RUNS, HAMM JUMPS
TO NEW WORLD RECORDS
Borah, Ray, Conger and Anderson Also Shine in
Greatest Carnival of Top Notch Perform.
Any Meet Ever Has Witnessed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARVARD STADIUM. CAMBRIDGE.
Mass, July 7.-Uncle Sam served notice
today that the Yanks are coming again,
this time in athletic but none the less
formidable array, with Olympic con-
quest as their main objective.
The final try-outs deciding the make
up of the American track and field
team that sails next Wednesday for
Amsterdam were completed this after
noon in the greatest carnival of record
breaking performances any meet ever
has witnessed. While crowd of $4,000
cheered and broiling sun beat down.
Old Man Time and Pop Distance lit
orally were slaughtered to make an
American athletic holiday and bring to
the front the most powerful collection
of performers that ever has answered
the Olympic roll call.
The most startling featS of a startling
afternoon were turned in by Ed Hamm,
Georgia Techs famous broad jumper.
who lepaed to new world record of
Is feet lis inches, and by Lloyd Hahn,
| the Boston express, who shattered an
other world record by winning the 300
meter finals in minute 81 2-5 seconds
These two world marks topped off
an unprecedented succession of record
feats in which one other world record
was equalled. two American records
shattered and 10 National A. A. U.
championship marks either broken or
established. To give further idea of
the class of this American team it may
be noted that the existing Olympic
games records were bettered in six
events during the two-day meet and
equalled in three others.
Harm, Eive< Crowd Thrill
Hamms amazing broad jump, the
greatest in history, gave the crowd its
first thrill of the afternoon. Charley
Borah. the Southern California flyer.
furnished the final sensation as he
romped off with the 200-meter final.
lettering the Olympic record for the
third time in race that saw Charley
Paddock. the blonde California vet
eran, stage a comeback to finish Sec
ond and clinch his place on the
Olympic team for the third time. along
with his old rival, Jackson Scholz OF
thu New York A. C.. In between these
performances was kaleidoscope whirl
of feats that had the spectators in
constant uproar and the experts dizzy
Hamm. trim, stocky Georgian. did not
even hesitate in leaping to his new
record. He dashed down the straight
| away on his first attempt to whirl out
/ father than any man ever has jumped
before. 1t was done so quickly that the
| crowd didn't have time TO see or APP
preciate that athletic history was being
written. Hamm's mark was just quar-
ter of an inch better than the former
record, set in 1925 by De Hart Hub
bard. Cincinnati negro, then wearing
| the colors of the University of Michi.
| gan, as he jumped 25 feet 10Is inches
| Hubbard saw his wark go by the boards
today, yielding the crown to Hamn
without being able to improve on the
mark of % feet a inches he achieved
yesterday and which gave the Negro
third place and a berth to Amsterdam
where he will defend the Olympic title
| Hubbard had been considered in a
class himself as a broad jumper un-
til Hamm's spectacular rise this year
Steadily the Georgian has cut down the
big gap that Hubbard has held over all
rivals for so long. Hamm did his pre-
viouS best at Birmingham. Ala. where
he jumped Is feet 634 inches
| Yesterday he led the qualifying
pack with a mark of IS feet 2Ss inches,
and today his second jump landed him
out distance of IS feet 3as inches.
| Hubbard in his palmiest jumping days
never touched this brilliant record
Hahn Meets Challenges.
| Hahn. beating off sensational chal-
| lenges. first by Ray Watson OF the ILL.,