Evening star., 1928-05-29
HOLLAND FAVORED
| TO CAPTURE EVENT
Peters Mark of 81 Feet 2
4 4 Inches Is the Best on
:, Record to Date.
BY TED MEREDITH.
Famous Runner. World and olympic
Champion.

Famous Runner, World and olympic
Champion.
q Holland. host of the eighth moderr
s0ympic games. has only one hope fol
first place in track and field con-
tests. This hope is in the hop. ster
and Jump, and is based on having ir
speters a jumper whose record excels
any to date.
The Official world record is in the
name of A. w. Winter, Australia. and
Is so feet IL 5-l6 inches. The record
was made in Paris at the 1924 OlympicS
Peters has mark Of 81 feet inches
which viii be approved without doubt
at the next meeting of the international
record committee.
Argentine has L. Brunette. second to
Winter at Paris, with so feet 7l4 inches,
v. Tulllos, Finland. was third. so feet
inches: V. j. Rainio, Finland fourth,
4s feet 1915 inches, and F. Jansson,
Sweden. fifth. 49 feet 1I@ inches.
I believe these same jumpers will
compete in Amsterdam. Most of them
have been in action within the last
two years. and surely VIII return to
form for the Olympic meet.
The United States has not won this
event since 1903, at London. Before
then IL took first in each Oiympiad ey-
cept In 1906, at Athens, when P. O'Con-
nor, Ireland, won.
Ahearne Former Champ.
Until Winter made his present Of
fetal mark the record was in the name
of Dan Ahearne, Illinois A. c.. great
jumper. Ahearne had to give way. to
youth In 1920 at Antwerp. and Tuulos
won.
Since Ahearneis retirement the
United States athletes have not made
the progress in the hop, step and jump
which might be expected judging from
results In other field events.
It is not standard contest in col
legeS. SO few good jumpers spend the
time In practice that it requires. Levi
Casey, Los Angeles A. c., national
champion in 1926 and 1927. shows the
best distance Of the United States pros
poets. He mas made 80 feet 4 ~ inches,
which would not win an Olympic title
II the jumping Of four years ago is 70
be criterion.
Homer Martin. Illinois A. c., another
double American champion In the
event, 1924 and 1925. is not far behind
Casey, and seems sure Of berth on
the American team.
The American jumper who holds the
most promise is DeHart Hubbard. for
mer Michigan athlete and holder of the
world bread Jump record Hubbard is q
natural Jumper, but his form in the
past II the hop. step and jump has
been far from finished II has not been
finished because he never took pains TO
make IL 80. Hubbard has done more
than 80 feet through natural jumping
ability and speed. and were he TO spend
the time al It Il Is reasonable TO believe
that he could improve materially.
Hubbard Has bad Ankle.
Hubbard has weak ankle, the result
of college competition, which might not
allow him TO put too much hard work
O. this event. In the broad Jump he is
80 n1ch favOrtte TO win that IL might
Be- bad policy for him 70 chance q
crippled condition AZ Amsterdam for
chance Of placing In two events.
L0uss 3. MsnEer and Robert Patton,
both of the Los Angeles A. c., are two
more wke hare mace progress En the
event. and WIZ be out for place on the
American tGana-
Lawson R0beyfson, coach Of the
University Of Pennsylvania and Olygn-
pic head eOzch. has an athlete al Penn
Moore, Who ts coming along in the hop.
step and Jump. Moore has won the
event ia the Penn relays twice. both
times Efn0er a6Beyse weather conditions,
when l0Esg Jumps we're impossible. He
VIII inpEDse before the txy-Out6, and
Eooegfs0n might hare ham ready for
greater distance
There must be big improvement sn
the American Jumpers IL they are TO
place aen toward the top Of the list IN
the bop, step ard jump. I believe the
improvement necessary ss too much 10
hopE for, and Mf1en they ge. 70 AnaG4er-
ozEn they vii find the foreign coupett-
t0rg osatGiasssng them. a6 four years age.
Win American sezpers hardly I'D 20
the marx, am hoping Holland lands
1arSs h0Eoyss II viii be big boost for
athletics ~ thai country, and Holland.
- noBt 70 the greatest international
conpeftsAon IN sport, deserves one Of
fs1e championships,
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