Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-11
MANY PAST|MES
ARE REPRESENTED
However. Track and Field
Team Holds Center of
YankS' Interest.

Sy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July ii.--Intent on In
ternational athletic conquest the Amer
lean Olympic team. 26S strong, sails
for Amsterdam today abroad the steam
ship President Roosevelt.
Track and field stars. fencers. SWIM
nlers, cyclists. oarSmen. gymnastS and
entrants in other branches of Olympic
sport will have To-day voyage aboard
the President Roosevelt.
Recruited from every section Of the
country, this argoSy. seeking not the
golden fleece. but the laurel wreatls
that await Olympic victorS, should re-
turn to the United States in Septem-
Der hearing more than its share OF
athletic honcrS. No other country III
the world can assemble a group of
record holding athletes TO match the
American expedition
Five Titles Seen Sure.
Comparative performances indicate
that the United States should win
championships in st least five Of the
Il branches Of Olympic compe-
stion-track and field. swimming. row
gig. boxing and wrestling. IN all Of
Nese the Red. White and Blue VIII be
defending team championships gained
in the 1924 games at Paris.
In the other SportS-fenclng, gynlnaS-
tics. cycling. modern pentathlon. eques-
trian competition. yachting and lacrosse
America is sending strong teams that
viii give other nations q fight OF II II
nothing more
Lacrosse. strictly speaking. is not an
Official Olympic sport. international
competition in this field in which tf9
United States is represented by Johns
Hopkins University Of Baltimore, viii
be in the nature Of an exhibition.
Track Team Is Strong.
Chief interest, of course. devolves
upon the track and field squad. Al
though Germany. the British Empire,
Finland. Sweden and France are certain
70 give Uncle Sans runners and field
stars trouble and plenty Of 1t, none
Of them individually Is in sufficient
strength. it appears, Ia break the long
string OF triunlplls the United States
has piled up in this branch Of the
Olympic games.
In the spirits. wykoff McAllister,
Scholz. Paddock and company must
watch out for the stars OF Germany
and Great Britain. In the middle and
long distance runs. Flnland's iron men
are most 10 be feared, although in the
800 and 500 meters Lloyd Hahn and
other American competitors viii need 10
watch Douglas Lowe of England, DR..
Otto Peltzer of Germany and Edwin
Wide Of Sweden
England. Sweden and South Africa
viii be strong in the hurdles and Fin I!
land. Germany and Sweden in the field /
events There seems little reason TO /
doubt. however. that the United States
will co other than capture the team
championship and with it a major /
share Of the individual titles.
Some Other Favorites.
In rowing. Uncle Sam has the Golden /
Bears Of California 10 depend upon TO +
repeat the victories Of Navy and Yale /
in the 1920 and 1924 games. The SWIM j
merS. boxers and wrestlers will be heavy
favorites to retain their titles, although |
the way 70 victory possibly viii be no |
smooth one.
The mere deadly of the species
Olympic ensemble than they ever have
before. Thirty -nine women are making
the trip abroad. 10 OF them forming
the team for the women's track and
field events. the first time such cOmpe-
tition has found q place On the Olympic
program. On the swimming team are
IA Of the fairer sex and the rest Of the
world appears unable to offer anything
that can compete successfully against
these maids who hold huge majority
OF worlds records for their events.
The American team will have a week
of preliminary training IN Europe be-
fore the chief Olympic program opens
with the track and field championships
starting Sunday, July %.
Four hundred or more persons were
assigned quarters aboard the President
Roosevelt in addition TO the 268 athletes
there are In excess of one hundred OIL
Gals, coaches and trainers, headed by
Mai. Gen. Douglas Macarthur OF Bal
finore, chairman Of the American
Olympic committee.
A score or more Of newspaper men
complete the total.