The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, July 19.-Hit-and-
4 Y run thoughts: The Olympic
tryouts are over and the quail
flers look as if they will do all right
in the international battles
The east qualified more men than
any other section of the country
and suppose this comes as a shock
to the natives Of the Pacific coast
the hotbed Of track and field cham
pions.
stlIl I hope nobody decides to make a
national issue OF the situation. u might
and field Champion IS not wholly unlike
the old-time prize fighter: his native city
s., wneTe he could get fight. com
Iortabie contact with the box office auto
matically established him as a local BOY
who made good
Among other things, the tryouts merely
confirmed the suspicion that geography
has very little to do with the deVelopmen,
Of super athletes. It takes more than an
active Chamber Of commerce to make a
81 Splinter.
Some Of the better known athletes
a asi O.! 70 CLICK Frank Wykoff. the fast
as Splinter. HIS failure doesn't add
much weight to the charge that eastern
slneIb conspired 70 make the coast
race time isn't important. ANYHOW. The
man am idsa Is TO get across the tape first
Wykoh is obviously better man al 100
yaEas tnan at 100 meters. He lacks the
oerlye ana Kick that are so essential over
the slightly longer distance one wonders
Wny the athletic authorities persist in
SSIIcking 70 me yardage system when the
system.
CTILLL. it didn't seem to affect
~ some of the boys. Ralph Met
calfe for example. The fast Negro
from Marquette served notice that
he will be a tough assignment for
the world at large in both the 100
and 2OO-meters. The mid-western-
er stands out as one of the great
sprinters this country ever has de-
veloped. He is an unusual combina-
ton Of great speed and great
strength. The added distance de-
manded by the metric system is all
to his liking.
Holding top-form in any high pressure
Metcalfe will succeed in doing il. For one
1hlng the hnal tests are not far away
III aHobiltI NE Is a giant. SuperblV muScled
and perfectly trained. 1t is evident that
ne came up to the tryouts fully equipped
IL is equally evident that some OF the
other boys left their fight in the gym
nasium.
How else can YOU account for the col
lapse of such established performers as
Gene VenZke. Emmett TOPPING Bob Kiesei
and George Bullwinkle? Their past records
Wernt built on press-aRentry They we're
real good men. Everybody knows that over
ing
j., venzke was at his peak six months ago.
the night he ran that smashing mile in
Madison Square Garden. II you can run
one race like that it seems reasonable to
assume that under similar conditions YOU
can run a second one. The answer seems
TO be that the gods Of form did not love
Venzke in July as they did in December
our friend, William Carr of Pennsyl-
yania. came back with another great race
TO beat blazing Ben Eastman and to set
Tie definitely all question as to the identity
OF the best quarter miller in the game
BY far the outstanding development of
The trvouts was the amazing pole vault
OF William GRADER of Southern California
who boosted the record to the incredible
figures OF IA feet 43s inches lettering the
world mark by more than 3 inches. You
get some faint idea of the immensely OF
THIS vault when YOU consider that few
years ago a l3-footer was looked upon as
sensational