New Britain herald., 1928-01-07

Feeling fairly well set for the dock. Borah. Locke, Bowman. Hus- sey and McAllister, the American Olympic committee is setting its glasses on the indoor tracks. scout ing for good middle-distance talent.
 Since time too humiliating to re- call. the United States has failed to win race of more than 200 meters in the Olympic games and in 1924 the sacred ground was trespassed when Harold Abrahams of England won the l00-meter race from . flock of the best sprinters that ever represented America.
 For years Lawson Robertson, head coach of the American team, has been praying for youngsters to go in for the quarter-mile, the half and the mile. but only a few have had the tenacity to stick to it and the field from which to pick the 1928 runners necessarily will be smaller.
 Three of the best of the Ameri- can flock-Lloyd Hahn, Bill Cox and Blondy Romis-are now in training for the indoor season and will continue through for the out door trials.
 Hahn recently resumed training after a long rest and Romig a few days ago put on his togs and won q cross-country race near Philadel- vah A~ college, has been in almost continu- ous training.
 Hahn, because of the many races he won last year indoors and the records he set, is considered to be the best chance for American points in Amsterdam. His victory over Edwin Widde. the Swedish star, should be discounted, however, be- cause none of the foreign runners know much about the wooden track.
 Bill Cox, however. may be the leader of the American squad. He is one of the greatest cross-country athletes developed in years. having won the national intercollegiate championship two years in success sion and he Is now training strictly for the fiat races.
 Ronig, also Penn State product, was an ace runner and veteran of the 1924 team and if he goes to Amsterdam it can be taken to mean that he Will train in Holland and will be out there trying.
 There of course. will be moro ruu- ners appointed to the team and one of them may be Johnny Zola, cap tain of Wisconsin's crcss-country team and the winner Of the last Western Conference race.
 Zola at least is serious in his am- bition to make the team as he left the class room after the mid-winter examinations and went to work so that he would have enough money to fipance himself in the event that he made the squad.
 The American middle distance runners will have some of the best runners in the world to beat at Am- sterdam. including Germany's great star, Dr. Otto Pelzer: Paayo Nur- mi. Finland's champion. and Edwin Wide. the great Swede.
 Hahn has beaten Wide. Nurmi has beaten Hahn and Wide and Peltzer have beaten Nurmi and also wiped off the books the great records of Ted MMeredith.
 But these performances will not count so much when they line up in Amsterda,f. Hahn. Wide and Nur- mi always will be good runners. They may be better than they ever have been this summer. so past form cannot be taken too much as evi- Gpnce.
 Germany fears that Dr. Peltzcr. who is TOW in the United States and is contemplating q trip around the world. will travel himself out of form. That remains 10 be seen. One thing can be taken for granted. Nurmi did not relish the defeat he suffered by the German and he will not do anything to throw himself off.