The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-27
GAMES WILL NOT BE HELD UNTIL
 1s44 OR LATER
Finland Has Not Yet Can. celled l04O Privilege,
 Despite War
BY HENRY SUPER

United Press Staff Correspondentp
 New York, Dec. 27. - (UP--This was e typical pre-olympic year in American track and field competi- tion--one which new stars came out of nowhere in the hope of landing on the international squad which was to go to Finland next year.
 But along with these stars came war and the Olympics apparently are doomed-wiped out again by European gunflre as they were in i9l6 when Berlin was to have been host.
 Finland has not officially cancels led the summer games although Germany, scheduled to hold the winter games at 0armisch- -Parten- kircheu, has given up its part of the program. Finland apparently is holding out until the last hope has faded. When, and If. the Finns can- ce' the games will be dead because the International Olympic commit- tee has voted against awarding them to another notion.
 So as l940, hears the olympics ideal--revived at Athens in 1896 to foster goodwill among the youth of the world--seems to be in the dis card indefinitely. It took two years after the Wor.u Sa W get the olymplcs gaing again in 1920 at Ant very, Belgium, and this time anna teur athletic officeals in this counthy feel it may be even longer before they are revived after this war.
 But before the war came In Sep- tember American performers had set l3 new national indoor marks and three outdoorrecords, but the outstanding 1889 performer on the world scene was barrel-chested Finn named Taisto Meki.
 Maxi hoping to Dc . hero before tho home fans nexS year, smashed five world records from two miles up to 10000 meters in a campaign which started In June and extended through october.
 Another European, Rudy Harblg of Germany, was the only other performer to set more than one world record. Harbig broke Archie Williams record RS he ran 400sme. ters in 46Escondsat Hamburg and then lowered the 800-metef record to i:46,8 at Milan Italy. Later in an fnterna tional meet
 Five other world marks were set--- two by Amerieais. Charles Fenske of Wisconsin, reeled of at 2.00.3 per- formance for 1000 yards talso aii American record) in Milwaukee and an Americal team Ralph Schwartz kopf, Roy Cochran, Blaine Rideout and Charles Beetham set world 3,200 meter relay mark of 7:3b.2 in Paris while on European tour which was cut short by the war. Claudia TcStoni, 1Saly, set Q women's hurdle record; Lutz of Germany heaved tho hammer i03 feet, b-8 inches and Sydney Wooderson, Eng land, went three fourths of c mile in 2:b0.5 in Manchester, Eng, before he embarked for America and the ill-fated mile Of tho century" at Princeton. N. J.
 This was to have been one of the greatest mile races ever with Wood- erson, holder of tho worlds outdoor mlle record, facing Fenske, Glenn Cunningham, Blaine Rideout and Archie San Romani.
 WooderSon ran c slow first quart- or and then on the final turn, with ! the rest Of the field burning to get 1 past the little British runned, Ride out attempted to pass Wooderson. The latter stumbled and lost his stride and the incident became an international affair.
 Wooderson claimed he was fouled and went home vowlng to beat Fen. ske, who won the race, in aii inter- national meet in London later in the summer. But Woodersoil pulled c muscle and the renewal never was staged.
 The outdoor nationals, where the olympics hopefulS start Blossoming tho year before tho games arc scheduled, brought horde Of un. knowns into the spotlight
 Among these athleCes were Joe Batiste Of Tucson, Ariz., tho first school boy to win c senior titlc--ho since Frank Wykoff of California in took tho ii0-meter high hurdles who won the 400~meter hurdles; and 1928; Roy Cochran, Indiana star Lilburn Williams, shotput winner from Xavier University.
 1n addition to l'enSke's i,000-yard record the other new national marks were c 0:b6.2 two-nilo steepleehasc run by Tommy Dcckard of Indiana and q shot.put record by one of the Hackney. He tossed tho ball bb.foet ! 10 3.9 inches in c preliminary meet but fell before Williams in the nationals.
 The star of tho indoor season waA John Borican, c negro graduate student at Columbia, who set three rocords--800 meters, 090 yards and