The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-04
EDDIE TOLAN SCORES
SIGNAL TRIUMPH IN
ZOO METER CLASSIC
Largest Crowd in Track History
Goes Wild as U. S. Stars
Achieve Victory
GEO. SAILING WINS HURDLES
Babe Didrikson of Texas Breaks
World Record; Californian
Wins Vault

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SO briskly but Thursday these Amer
leans can go the patriotic limit, with
the Star-Spangled banner draped all
over the Olympic track and field
band wagon.
| With the big show only half COM
pleted, the United States has already
dominated the greatest outbreak Of
Olympic record smaShing Of all time,
romped off with nine of the 16 track
and field events for men and women,
including highly-cherished sprint
titles. and rolled up a staggering mar
gin on points.
Talk about picking their sports!
After politely watching the flags OF
Ireland, Poland, Britain. and Canada
wave VIGOROUSLY in the breeZes, the
Americans, with startling rush,
Wednesday swept all four of the
mems track and field finals conduct
ed in the stadium. A crowd estin1at-
ed at nearly $4,000, the greatest in
track history, went wild.
The record turnout sent the total
attendance for four days beyond
225 900 for the stadium alone. The
crowd saw bespectacled little Eddie
Tolan, American negro, lead a sweep
of the 20O-meters final, to become the
first double Olympic sprint champion
the United States has had in 20 years.
Miller Beats Japanese
They thrilled as sandy-haired Bill
Miller of San Diego, product OF
Stanford university, outvaulted the
sensational japanese boy, Shuhel
Nishida, in the first IA foot duel in
Olympic history. The American boy
finally won at IA feet. rs inches.
They roared again as three Yankee
timber toppers, led to the tape by
George Sailing of Iowa. swept the fl
nal of the spectacular 1l0-meter high
hurdles race.
They volleyed cheers for their ia
vorite feminine star, Babe" Didrlk-
son of Texas, who broke her second
world record in as many events by
racing over the 80-meter high hurdles
in the stunning time of lib seconds,
to lead three American girl qualifiers
for Thursdays final.
Finally. to saturate this homebreo
field day. the crowd watched two
husky Americans six times excel the
Olympic discus tossing record. Hand
some John Anderson. former Cornell
university star. finally beat Henri
Laborde of Stanford with a final
heave of 142 feet AS inches.
OF the total of twelve flags that
fluttered in honor of the Olympic
were the American emblem.
British Walker Wins
Far from the stadiumS tumult ana
shouting, Great Britains game and
gallant pedestrian, Thomas William
Green, hoofed his way to victory III the
$4,000 meter walk. He had to walt
until Thursday, however, to step up
on the Olympic pedestal and hear
God Save the King played in honos
of his achievement.
Thursday. too, Finland and Japan
may take their turn in the spotlight
with favorites in the javelin ana
triple jump, while Americans have
their eyes focused on the chances OF
Pen" Hallowell, Glenn Cunningham
and Frank Crowley in the classic
15OO-meter final, feature Of this aft
ernoon's program.
Meanwhile, and for the next four
years, the United States can bask in
the outstanding achievement Of its
Star Spangled day'-the triumph OF
Tolan.
The dramatic story of the little
Negroes rise to the world sprinting
heights overshadows the record break
ing chapters that have made these
Olympic games the dizzicst whirl OF
all time.
Tolan couldn't make the American |
team four years ago. Like many an
other youth, he was hard pressed for
funds this year and needed the aid
OF a friend to get to California by
automobile for the final American
tryouts. At Palo Alto, Tolan twice
trailed the Great Ralph Metcalfe OF
Marquette to the tape in the combin-
ed race for places on the American
team as well as national champion
ships.
The experts thought Metcalfe won
from Tolan Monday in the 100-me-
ter Olympic final and it took the Of
fetal motion pictures to convince
them that Tolan was victorious by
the shadowy margin Of two inches in
world record time.
Predicted Metcalfe Victory
They said Metcalfe would run away
from little Eddie in the 200, because
he was bigger and stronger, but To-
Ian came back to win hands down.
He beat George Simpson, the third
American sprint ace, by good two
yards in the Olympic record time of
2l.2 seconds, while Metcalfe came IN
third. handicapped by poor start
and ragged work on the turn,
Two Olympic championships and
two Olympic records ought to be
enough to prove the greatness of To-
lan's come back. He maintains, too,
one of the most unique traditions of
American track history. He Is the
third American Splinter to take the
Olympic double crown. Archie Mann
in 1904 and Ralph Craig in 1912, being
the others. All three came from the
University of Michigan.
If there was any disappointment
for the huge crowd In the stadium IT
was the failure of the Southern Cal
ifornia favorite, Bill GRADER, to come
through in the pole vault. GRADER
had hoisted himself to the world rec
ord height Of II feet, 4-8 inches IN
the final tryouts. He did no better