Evening star., 1936-08-10

Negroes WIN SIX l1tleS.
PITA MASTERBROEK of Holland
and Janet Campbell of the Ar
gentine dominated the event in the
semi-finals yesterday. Bernice Lapp
of Newark was fourth in her heat and
was eliminated.
highest honors in the blue ribbon
Olympic sport since the games at
Stockholm in 1912.
Negro competitors contributed six
individual titles to Americas u track
f1rstS. besides helping to account for
seventh in the 400-meter relay.
Jesse Owens. including his part in
the sprint relay. became the first
American to collect four gold medals
since 1900, besides duplicating paavo
Nurmi's 1924 achievement.
Archie Williams. Oakland. Calf;
John Woodruff, University of Pitts
burgh freshman, and Cornelius john
son. Los Angeles. rounded out the
Negroes biggest Olympic session in
history.
Two great Southern athletes, Forrest
Towns, Augusta, Ga. and Glenn Har-
din, Greenwood, Miss, in the hurdles:
three Westerners. Glenn Morris, Fort
Collins, Colo: Ken Carpenter, Comp
ton, Calf, and Earle Meadows of the
University of Southern California.
achieved the triumphS which enabled
the United States to roll up 203 points.
only IS short of the Los Angeles total.
Yanks Smash Eight Records.
THE Americans figured in record
- smashing performances in Of
the 16 track and field events.
The broad jump standard which had
stood since 1928 was bettered eight
times, five by Owens. Five were under
the former Olympic record both for
the 1,500-meter and the 3,000-meter
steeplechase finals, while the first six
In the 50-kilometer walk were under
the former record.
The biggest shock from the Amer
ican point Of view included the fall
ure of Don Lash of Indiana University
to gain single point, the inability Of
Jack Torrance of Baton Rouge. La. to
do better than fifth in the shot put, and
the elimination of Henry Dryer of
Providence, r. l., the teams hammer
throwing ace, before the finals OF the
event.
The No. upset of the games, how
ever, was the failure of Englands
Stan Wooderson to qualify for the
$500 meters final in which Jack
Lovelock of New Zealand ended all
doubt about who is the worlds great
est miller.
The Argentine's Juan Carlos Zabala
collapsed in an attempt to repeat his
1882 marathon triumph when leg
cramps crippled him after dizzy
pace in the first half of the distance
classic. Passed by little Son and by
Ernest Harper of Great Britain, Ia
hala virtually collapsed and was borne
away from the course on a stretcher.
Brown and Mcmahon Quit.
Son, Korean college student,
moved steadily along through the
first half of the tough. hilly course,
steadily increased his pace and fin
ished like sprinter, negotiating the
last 100 meters in the stadium in
1873, while los 900, including Chan
cellor Hitler, acclaimed his record
victory
Son ran the distance in hours 20
minutes 1872 seconds, and Harper. in
second place. in 2:31 :232. both under
the Olympic mark of 2:31:36 set by
zabala in 1882.
The American, Ellison CTarzan)
Brown OF Alton. r. l.. ran we'll in the
first half of the race then withdrew
shortly before Zabala collapsed. Bill
Mcmahon of Worcester. Mass, also
dropped out before tackling the hills
the second time. leaving Johnny Kel-
ley Of Arlington, Mass, to carry the
United States in the event Kelley
finished eighteenth.
Sam Stoller of Cincinnati, who, with
Marty Glickman of Brooklyn lost his
place on the sprint relay team, an
nounced yesterday that he had de-
cided to give up running, despite the
fact that he has another year of COM
petition at the University of Michigan.
He claimed he had not been treated
fairly in being dropped from the team.
Glickman intimated that politics"
was responsible for the shift which
cut him and Stoller off. Dean Crom-
well of the Olympic staff of coaches
was looking out for Southern Cali
fornians," Glickman claimed. Foy
Draper and Frank Wykoff, who ran on
the sprint team, both are former pupils
Of Cromwell
The case of Mrs. Eleanor Holm
Jarrett still! was creating some dis
turbance in the Olympic village. After
instructing the International SWIM
ming Federation that Mrs. jarrett was
not eligible for competition in Euro
pean amateur swimming events, Avery
Brundage formally entered the case
in the books of the Amateur Athletic
Union yesterday and discussed 1t with
oficials. He did not say. however. on
what grounds Mrs. Jarrett had been
x1iled ineliribla.