The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-07
|lFRANK WYKOFF
EQUALS WORLD
!, MARK 4 TIMES
!. School Boy Wins Four Heats
of 1OO-Meter Event in Sen.
4 sational Races
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(TO PICK TEAM TONIGHT
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: Many Favorites Fail in Olym.
q pic Trials at Harvard Sta
dunn Yesterday
BY ALAN J. GOULD
(AssOciated Press Sports EditOr)

(ASSOc1ated PreSS sports EOltOrJ
Cambridge. Mass. July THE
!, ranks of the American track and
field brigade. thinned out by the
first of the final tests at Harvard
stadium. wheeled into the deciding
trials today with new and youthful
hero Of sprintdom at their head
l9-year-oli Frank Wykoff Of Glen
dale. California.
Wykoff emerged from the opening
days battle Of speed. courage and
Drawn with an assortment Of honors
= few runners have ever known. With
/. in the space of four hours Of compe-
= tition he won four 1O0-meter races,
!. up to and including the final. in
the Olympic record-edualing time OF
{ 10 3f5 seconds. capturing the ma
I tional A. A. Z. championship and
I running into the ground the greatest
Z convention Of sprinters Uncle Sam
: has ever assembled on one and the
! same afternoon.
/ In what La" son Robertson.
. Olympic head coach, and othe. Of
Z ficials characterized as the greatest
s sprinting performance they have
! ever witnessed, this rugged. curly
! haired youth showed his heels to
: every rival in sight, beating nearly
two score opponents of championship
! or record-holding calibre. Through
s a succession of heart-testing strug-
: giles that cracked the stamina and
speed of many seasoned veteran
: the big &c" on Wykoff's jersey never
: trailed. He won all of his four races
decisively, while such aces as Char
lev Paddock. former worlds cham
pion, Frank Hussey. New York's ia
: vorite, and George impson, Ohio
:. State flash, were eliminated.
Y Flying Cop Second
e Wykoff won the final heat by a
good yard, with Bob McAllister.
E New York's flying cop,' surpris-
! ing second; Henry Russell, the
! lanky former Cornell star. third;
q and Claude Bracey. rangy Texan.
Q fourth-all thereby clinching places
on the team that sails next Wednes-
day for Amsterdam and the Olymp-
les. Jimmy Quinn Of Holy Cross and
h jackson Scholz, New York A. c. vet
A eran, finishing fifth and sixth in the
final, also were assured of berths.
n at least on the 400 meter relay team
q il they failed to do any better in the
2OO-meter tryouts this afternoon.
I; Paddock struggled gallantly to
come back, but was shut out in the
= semi-finals in heat that saw Quinn,
Scholz and Bracey leading the
= blond Californian to the tape in a
q stirring finish. Simpson. the ONO
Z State flyer, after two fine prelim-
mary races, pulled a muscle IN MS
a left leg and barely staggered to the
= finish before sprawling to the track.
a Chef Bowman, the defending nation
al champion, whose comeback also
has signally failed this year. was
put out in his first race.
) The Olympic record of 10 3/5 was
J. eoualed in eight of the twelve 100
= meter races, with Wykoff touching
!. the mark four times. Bracey twice,
i Simpson and Quinn once each,
l; None of these flyers equaled Pad
). docks worlds mark of 10 2/5 sec
I, onds.
' At the end Of the weeding-out
= process in ten events the Eastern
; talent led the intersectional struggle
with "a places gained. The far west
had Is, the middle west Is. the south
8. southwest 3, and Rocky Noun.
tain area l. :,
4 In the l1O-meter hig} hurdles
. Rous Nichols, Stanford star, equaled
the worlds record of IA 4/5 sec.
! onds in the semi-finals. In tho
broad Jump Ed Hamm, Georgia
( Tech. set the pace with a leap Of
u Is feet 2% inches. The shotput pro
duced a new star in Herman Bri,
4 If the University of Washington
! who heaved the iron ball SO feet 81
I inches. In the 80O-meter run L1oyt
7 Hahn of Falls City. Neb., and bos
: ton beat the American record with
\ out being pushed.
4 Bowman, former Syracuse star St;
I was the first favorite to fail: Thl'
4 was in the 100 meters. Dan kinse!
Of the Illinois A. c.. tn 1924 Olymp
e champion, failed to place in TIL
Z 11O-meter hurdles. But Houser @
: Los Angeles, the 1922 Olympic
discus champion, staged come-bac!
to lead the plate tossers with mari
Of ISL feet ~ inches, but Fri
} Krenz of Stanford. holder of the IN
fercolleriate discus title, failed b.
: wide margin to qualify.
In the javelin the big ten cham
: pion and outstanding favorite, VII
mer Rinehart Of Indiana, was beaten
Arthur Sager of the Boston A: A
!. did 200 feet inches. the indiana
ace 1873 feet 81 inches. John kuck
b credited with beating the world
records in both the shot and javelin
qualified in the weight tossing bu
WAS way off form with the spear
and was eliminated. along wit!
Douglas Graydon Of Little Rock; Bill
Sparline, and Leo Korby OF Stan
ford. other favorites.
Sharing the schoolboy honors o
the opening day was Sid Bowman Q
Hammand (La.) high school. VIII
hopped, stepped and jumped into tn
lead with mark OF 4S feet ~
finals n Is Olympic events wer'
scheduled today. starting at 2. m
Eastern standard time. The fina
makeup Of the American team vii
s. decided tonight by the Olympi
committee.
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