The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

| lnem breaking world records
qualified for the trip to Berlin al
the final Olympic trials held Sa-
turday and Sunday at Randall's Is.
land to give the race the strongest
representation 1t has ever had in
the worldwide quadrennial athle-
tic carnival.
The colored stars expected to
win points for the land of the
Stars and Stripes in Germany next
month are:
Jesse Owens, Ohio State Uniyer-
sity, 100 meters, 200 meters, broad
jump.
| Ralph Metcalfe; Marquette uni
versity, 100 meters;
Mack Robinson, Pasadena Jun
ior College; 200 meters, 400 me-
ter relay;
Johnny Brooks, Chicago, broad
jump;
Fritz Pollard, Jr., North Dako-
ia university, ITO meter hurdles
Archie Williams, California uni
versity, 400 meters;
Jimmy LuValle, u. c. L. A, 400
meters;
John Woodruff, Pittsburgh u,
500 meters;
Cornelius Johnson, Compton jun
ior college, high jump;
Dave Albritton, Ohio State un-
iversity, high jump.
Several Negro stars who doomed
as potential team members were
eliminated, some at marks and
times which they previously had
beaten. Ralph Metcalfe was nos
ed out in the 200 meters; Eulace
Peacock, still handicapped by that
Penn Relays injury, could not
make either the 100 meter or the
broad jump squad; Ben Johnson
failed in both dashes, Kermit King
failed in the broad jump as did
Eddie Gordon, 1882 Olympic cham
pion, and the high jump contin-
gent of Melvin Walker, AL Thread
gill and Ed Burke could not make
the boat.
But colored athletes proved the
sensation of the finals. Owens won
his three events, the 100 and 200
meter dashes and the broad jump
setting a new worlds record in
the 200. Johnson and Albritton
broke all standards in the high
jump. Woodruff came within one
tenth second of tying the world
mark in the 500 meters.
In the 100 meter finals, held Sa-
/ turday, before $4,000 people, o.
won handily in 1914 seconds, again
defeating Metcalfe as he did the
previous Saturday at the Nation
al A. A. U. meet. Frank Wykoff,
white, first man to run 100 yards
in "a seconds, was the third men,
| Der. Mack Robinson among the
first seven, automatically became
400 meter relay team member.
Both Johnson and Peacock were
| eliminated in the trial heats.
BY leaping 25 feet 10 ga inches,
Owens topped the broad jumpers
Saturday. In SECOND place was
Johnny Brooks with 25 feet 3 Sd
inches, one of the best jumps in
his career. On his last trial Bob
', Clark, California white boy, nosed
out Kermit King of Kansas Tea
cheers college for the tird place on
the team with 25 feet 2 ga inches.
Clark, who is the best white jump
er in America and who has
gone 25 feet IL inches earlier
this year. stated he wished to
withdraw as he already had place
on the decathlon team. King, who
could do no better than "a feet
liz inches, has previously leap
/ ed 25 feet inches.
Sunday $1,000 fans saw the
! other finals in which Negroes won
team places. One Of the surprises
was the failure of Metcalfe, gener-
ally considered invulnerable al
200 meters and world record hold
err with a PIP mark, to cinch a
place. Owens, the winner, esta-
blished a new international time
for the sprint around one turn
with startling 81 second per-
Torrance. Second was Robinson,
who in the California trials had
also broken the world record. Bob
by Packard, white Georgian, was
third. The Marquette ace finish
ed fifth, out of the running.
John Woodruff, the Pittsburgh
freshman who was catapulted UNI
heralded into prominence a few
weeks ago and who still amazes
coaches with his unorthodox RUM
ing, led the 500 meter qualifiers
with time of ISL. Ben East
man, world record holder, was
knocked completely out of the run
ming. In the trials held Saturday
Woodruff turned in time of LABS
"a scant tenth of a second behind
the world record.
Archie Williams got his revenge
Sunday for the previous weeks
beating handed him and LuValle
| by Harold Sma1Iwood of California