Evening star., 1928-04-13
LIKELY TO FURNISH
HALF OF ATHLETES
Midwest Is Seen as Next in
Line, Then Coast. With
South Trailing.
BY ALAN ]. GOULD,
ssociatcd Press sports Editor.


n YEw YORK. April lS 0El,-The
tliSSle of the talent for places
N On, On this years sns American 'a;g ,sau oy ni;
be on from coast to coast in
short order, 1t is already under way
IN the balmier climes of the Pacific
Coast while the Eastern and Middle
Western stars will have their first big
outdoor tests in the great relay carni-
walls the end of this month at Pennsyl-
yania and Drake universities.
Hence it isn't strange to find the
experts already out with form sheets
and pencils. figuring how the sectional
lists will fare in getting tickets on the
boat to Amsterdam.
II present prospects mean anything,
the East will fill nearly half the ranks
of the track and field team. Ninety
places viii be available, and well quail
fed observers figure that IA of these
will be grabbed off by Eastern per-
formers,
The same calculations allot - places
to the Middle West. IL TO the Pacific
Coast. 6 to the Southwest and TO the
South
So far as the proportion goes it is
about the same as that in the makeup
8of the 1924 team that went to Paris,
1t was a bigger array that year, totalling
1l6 athletes with the East represented
by 81 performers. the Middle West by
80 the Pacific Coast by 20, the South
west by one and the South by two.
From this outpost il appears the Far
West viii contribute heavily to the
Sprints. with Borah and Paddock lead
Ing the field, as well as to several of the
field events. where Barnes in the pole
vault Houser. Krenz and Hoffman in
the Shotput and discus, and King. Cog
geShall and others in the high Jump
are among the best.
The Middle West has Locke and AL
derman in the Sprints Hubbard in the
broad Jump. Elkins in the decathlon,
Conger in the middle distances, Taylor.
Werner. Guhel, Kinsey and others in
the hurdles, Burg and Osborn in the
high Jump, and Schwarze and Kuck in
the weights.
The Southwest has a great high
Jumper in the Texan. Haggard. among
other stars, while the South boasts a
fine broad-jumper in Hamm and ma
tional champion. Baskin. in the hurdles.
The East may claim Sabin Carr. but
his home Is in Iowa. Hahn is a Ne
braskau. although he sports the colors
of the Boston A. A. Scholz came TO
New York from Missouri, but Hussey
6&k0 LOAkA&aAA, Al lax SpA IaAc.
IN the distance runs: Demar. in tho
Marathon: McGrath and Adelman, in
the weights: Wells, in the hurdles. and
such ouarter-mllers as Tierney and
iBaroIti, are homebred Eastern candi-
dates
America hasn't won the Olympic
classic Marathon in 20 years, and even
back in 1908. at London, the laurel
wreath was awarded TO Johnny Hayes
only after his great Italian rival. Do
rando. had collapsed within sight of the
finish and been helped across the line.
But the 40-year-old veteran. Clarence
Demar NAV come through at Anister-
dam this Summer TO cap the climax of
q remarkable disfance-runnslg career.
Denar viii have his first workout Of the
Suring in the historic Boston Marathon
next week, an event he has captured
I've times previously
The slim wfTy. little typesetter prob
ably viii be Uncle Sans main hone in
the OIvmpics He was twelfth in the
bic meet at Stockholm, in 1912. an6
third, in 1924 at Paris. Since he seems.
.like most marathoners. to pet better
with sge. this NAV be Demar's year to
sport the laurel sprig