Evening star., 1936-03-28
TO SCORE
IN OLYMPIC RACE
Chicagoan Aims at Cars
Feat and Held Likely to
Realize Goal.
BY FRANCIS ]. POWERS.


)HICAGO. Mach 28. Our
4 Uncle Samuel need have no
worries for the outcome of the
400-meter run in the olympic
games at Berlin next Summer. Ray
Ellinwood, a lathe-like University Of
Chicago sophomore, will take care Of
the world in that event. or else a
number Of renowned coaches are all
wrong.
Ellinwood, who halls from River
Forest, a western suburb Of Chicago,
took the hobbies of his flying feet in
the annual Western Conference indoor
meet and ran the 44o-yard event in
48.9 seconds for a new world record.
Consistently around 40 fiat in pre-
viouS indoor competitions and prac-
tice. Ellinwood realized his true speed
in the Big Ten meet and shattered
the old record Of .49.3 made by Alex
Wilson, the Canadian born Notre
Dame star, in 1892.
Would Match Cars Feat.
The world outdoor record for the
440 is .46!4, made by Ben Eastman,
running for Stanford in 1882. There
is a difference Of 25-l0 seconds be.
tween Eastman's outdoor and Ellin-
woods indoor marks, but Ned Mer-
riam, the Chicago coach, believes the
young Maroon can equal the Califor.
MANS speed once he is turned loose
on the cinders.
Bill Carr of Pennsylvania won the
400-meter sprint in the 1882 Olynpics
in 46.2 and that speed will be Ellin-
woods goal before the final trials for
the American team are staged. Per-
haps ne may not equal the speed Of
Eastman or Carr, but he will run fast
enough 10 gain place on the Amer
ican team and likely fast enough to
win at Berlin, unless there are other
record breakers in hiding.
Ellinwood ran nice race in setting
the new indoor record on the Uni
versity of Chicago field house track.
He allowed Stanley Birleson of Mich
igan to set the pace on the first lap
OF the chase, but never was more than
three strides behind the Wolverine.
On the final lap Ellinwood increased
his speed and won going away, the
field rapidly dropping behind as his
long stride devoured the last 220
yards
Some coaches had been skeptical as
to Ellinwood's endurance, but in the
Big Ten meet the boy showed plenty
Of stamina and finished his record
breaking performance with little ap.
parent fatigue.
Albritton Great Jumper.
A MOTHER Olympic candidate was
turned up in the Big Ten meet
when Dave Albritton, colored sopho-
more from Ohio State University, high
jumped feet and inches. This
broke the old conference record. made
by McGinnis of Wisconsin in 1927,
by AZ inches and established Albrit-
ton as one of the best high jumpers
in the country. He will find plenty
of competition from Crutter Of Col-
orado University, Burke, the sensa.
tional freshman of Marquette, Cornie
johnson of Los Angeles and several
others, but Larry Snyder, the Ohio
coach, is Of the opinion Albritton can
do 6 feet 8 inches or more on an
open field, and that should win the
boy trip to Berlin.
Six feet six inches by Harold Osborn
of the United States is the all-time
Olympic games high-jump record, and
6 feet 55k inches was good enough to
win for Duncan McNaughton of Cam
ada in the 1882 games at Los Angeles.
The United States has at least five
who can go higher than either Of
those marks and should have little
trouble in pegging out a new record
at Berlin.