Evening star., 1931-06-13
YOUTHS OF CAMPUS
ARE IN RARE FORM
Officials Highly Optimistic as
They View Warm-ups
for 1882 OIympiCs.

OCHOOL is out, but the stars OF
the college cinder paths and
- fields are still in training.
Most Of the youngsters who
won and placed high in the great
est year of collegiate track and
field will enter the National A. A.
u. championships in Lincoln on
July 4.
And this years crop of college stars
Is the best Of all time, for record
breakers abound throughout the lists
There are many brilliant men in the
club rankS-but they will have
mighty hard time keeping the young
sters out Of the first places.
THE I. C. 4-A summary at Phila-
i delphia read like a page out OF the
record books Champions of 1881
bettered or equaled records in SIX
events. The national collegiate meet a
week later in Chicago saw a continual
ton of this years brilliant perform
ances. The whole Spring was like that.
Records were broken in dual meets and
the big relays
Lawson Robertson of Penn, who
again will be head coach of the United
states olympic track and field team
aand Joseph Townsend England of Bal
ftimore, chairman of the track and field
Srommittee, have been watching these
brilliant youngsters with rapidly mount
Ing optimism.
1T is hard to restrain ones self"
said England, at the end of the COL
legiate season, and we're expecting
more brilliance at the Lincoln meet. l
believe we have the greatest material
we've ever had and our prospects are
splendid in a majority Of theh Olympic
events
Robertson pointed to the closely con-
tested events in Philadelphia TO en-
phaSize the abundance of good men.
They're youngsters, too ne said,
MANY of them will be even greater
next year. Quite a few college sOpho-
moreS were among the big winners this
Spring. 1t will be quite battle in the
tryouts next Summer.
And, of course, We have the advan-
tage of performing st home, which will
give us a better chance to bring the
men along smoothly and get them at
their best in the big games.
IRON now on the track enthusiasts
i of the East must look westward. for
starting with the Lincoln meet all
the big affairs from now until the end
of next Summer will be staged in the
West.
Even the I. c. "A meet goes West
next year. Berkeley having been chosen.
From Spring until late Summer Cal
ifornia will be host to the whole army
of track and field stars. But many of
the chief Contenders will be native
sons" Southern California, Stanford
and California have the bulk of the
countrys best right now, to say nothing
of the stars Corraled by the athlatlc
clubs of the coast.
There are a few sterling athletes
scattered through the Big Ten, in the
East and here and there and good man
in the South, the Southwest or the
West Eut the West Coast leads.
Wykoff, Eastman, williams, HableS,
Dyer Grabcr. Churchill, Payne. Jones,
Barber and Hall are few Of the celeb
rites who piled up points for the big
coast schools.
a DID to hat array Keller, Tolan,
n Kelly, Hallowell, Coan, Devoe. Bull
winkle McCluskey. Chamberlain,
Seminar. Conner. C'COnnor, Record
stars.
Others may flash across the horizon
within the next year. A lot of sopho-
mores made the grade in 1881.
Ohio's crack hurdler. Jack Keller, is
a sophomore and may be even better
next Summer. He did the 100 highs in
14.3, but unfortunately knocked over
two hurdles
Keller got his nickname, Jack, from
. the four initials in his name, which is,
in full, John Alton Claude Keller. He
stands feet 3i2 inches and weighs
s158 pounds
There will be many old timers at
Lincoln. but the going will be tough for
them. Harold Osborne, On two Olympic
teams already, is desirous Of making 1t
three. He's training now for Lincoln.
Last years pig meet IN Pittsburgh
cav many records tumble and this
years speedfest in Lincoln will outdo
pittsburgh.
And that won't make Robertson,
England and their fellow Americans
downhearted