Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-10
KELLY BIG FELLOW,
BUT FAST STARTER
|. C. "A Championships
Show Americas Strength
for Games Next Year.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n TEW YORK, March TO-
nj Looking toward the Olym-
l pic games of next year, the
writer scanned the ma
terial which was on display at the
&c. "A championships. The out
look, as a result, looks distinctly
hopeful.
Beginning with the first event on the
program, . genuine Sprinter was uncov-
cred In AloysiuS T. Kelly Of George
town. Here is q big fellow with ire
rnendous lift He was OF the mark as
srartly as the lighter and Stockier boys
and kept his winning drive all the way.
Unless all signs fail, he should be king
Of the Sprinters for the next few years.
Carl Coan and George Bullwinkle
again showed their class, the latter be-
ing the writer's choice in another year
70 equal the best mark in the mile.
Two Quarter MiIers.
Out Of the dazzling array Of quarter
nailers stand Bernard McCaferty OF
Holy Cross and William Carr Of Penn
Sylvania, Carr's last quarter was caught
in AT seconds, and McCafferty picked
up about five yards, which indicates
that he hit very close to the even 4S. :,
Eugene Record Of Harvard, a great
ouArter-miler, won the high hurdles in
q shade over the record and should be
the real choice for the 400-meter Olyn-
pic hurdles at Los Angeles.
Barney Berlinger, by his performance
Saturday night, is marked as one OF
the greatest athletes of all time. From
the beginning Of the ancient games in
Greece up TO our own day no athlete
has ever set up string OF performances
to compare with his. In the same hour
in which he jointly made a new record
OF IS feet SK inches in the pole vault
he won the shotput with 40 feet plus
and jumped over the high Jump bar at
feet 2 inches. This Is . feat which
even the great Thorpe could not ap-
preach. It Is almost certain that next
year win see q new decathlon record
made, and Beriinger Is the man who
VIII make It.
Fleet q New Flash.
Another new luminary was isolated
from the galaxy when Donald A. Fleet
of Boston College a quarter miller who
turned to the half mile, ran the longer
distance in minute SO seconds. With
Chapman and this youngster, whose
name is properly descriptive. We have
two Of the fastest S00-meter men in the
world.
Joe McCluskey at last won his race
ct miles after q Winter in which he
brought the distance out Of obScurity,
for It IL certain that his early and even
pace were the factors which carried
Gus Moore and Leo Lermond to their
fine performances in the A. A. q. meets.
In another year Mac should he run
ming on the nine-minute schedule.
In the high jump, broad jump and
pole vault enough class was shown to
take all three first players In these
events at the coming Olympics, and, as
the new program for entries only per-
mits Of thee men from each nation.
that means leo per cent Several of
tie big fellows who we're tossing the
35-pound weight give promise Of fine
things in the hammer throw as well as
the 56-pound weight. Steiner Of Penn
and Brown Of Bowdoin should be the
class with the flfty-six, and McDougall
Of Pennsylvania appears as fne pros
pect In the hammer. His action pre-
dictA . performance close to $50 feet
IA the Spring.
When one realizes that this talent Is
merely the contribution Of the North.
eastern section only, 1t Is safe to predict
that our Olympic team Of 1882 will be
the strongest we have ever put In the
Aeld.