Evening star., 1932-02-01
Alabama Georgia uns Formidable Nev York Hue of Athletic Acui
BRIGHT SCHEDULE
Of SPORTS ON TAP
Winter 0Iympics, MiIIrose
Games, Boxing, Base Ball
on States List.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

n TEW YORK, February mo
y hive ever was more crowded
/ Y with bees than this city
and State will be in the
next seven days with persons con-
nected with sport.
Monday and Tuesday bring the
American and National League
schedule meetings, which means
a gathering of owners, managers,
scouts, players and bat boys. Al
ready they are talking trades.
Hack Wilson is present and TAX
ing his pen in hand to sign his
contract with Brooklyn. The New
York Yankees are shopping for
pitcher. Cleveland is collecting
infielders. Cincinnati is looking
for anything it can pry loose.
Monday and Wednesday evenings the
amateur boxers do their stuff at the
Garden. There are "A Of them, with IA
champions in the list.
Saturday flock of track and field
champions will compete at the Garden
in the famous Millrose games. A new
! board track Is expected to produce some
new records. This meet will show an
entry list containing IL record holders.
Probably because this is an olympic
year, there will be more champions
competing than these games have ever
before seen. Champions of America,
Canada, Hungary, the British Empire
and intercollegiate title holders will
match strength and speed.
One of the scheduled races certainly
! ShOUlH give the cOept tOrC thrill
Percy Beard, the Alabama Flash, who
ran the 120 hurdles in 141-5, at one
| time or another defeated every star
| hurdler in the country last year, with
single exception. That was Jack Keller,
the great hurdler from Ohio State and
national collegiate champion. The two
never met
They are entered in the 5O-yard high
hurdles on Saturday night and the
| chances are that the crowd will surge
to its feet as the pistol cracks and this
pair leaps from the marx.
But it might happen that neither
will cross the line a winner. That race
also will have in it Jimmy Hatfield,
Bob Maxwell, Monte Wells and John
Collier. That will be some race.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, more than
| $50 athletes, representing IT nations,
will line up In the olympic Stadium at
Lake Placid for the ceremonies at
tending the opening OF the Olympic
Winter games.
It might be useful once more to look
over the list of these entrants. In al
phabetical order they are Austria, Bel
| GUM, Canada, CZechoSlovakia. Finland,
France, Germany, Great Britain, Nor
way, Poland, Rumania Hungary, Italy,
Japan Sweden, Switzerland and the
United States
The events are FIVE comprising COM
petitions in speed, skating, fancy skat-
ing, skiing, bobsledding and hockey.
Aside from these, there will be curling,
women'S speed skating and sled dog
racing. but these have no bearing on
the Olympics.
Points usually are scored 10 for first
place, for second place, for third
place, 8 for fourth place, 2 for fifth
place and for sixth place. Behind
these come the also-rans.
So far as we can discover, none OF
these events played any part in the
ancient OlyInpics. AS a matter Of fact.
the first all-Steel skate was not in
vented until 1850. Skis go back to the
dawn Of history but ice hockey is no
older than 1879, and racing bobsleds
are even now in process of deVe-cp-
ment.
There is small doubt that ancient
man did do lot Of travelling on skates,
but the blades were of bone. Had Primo
Camera lived in those days, he could
have sawed off couple Of ribes from
the skeleton Of some mammoth, tied
them to his feet, ana gone gliding
gracefully over some frozen lake With
those feet of his, Primo would have
had small use for skis. He could just
turn up his toes bit and slide.
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