Evening star., 1952-06-27
200 Track Stars
Compete in Final
Olympic Trials
CopozzoIi, Carl Joyce
And Bill Mathis Run
In Todoy's Events
By the Assoeiofed Press

i LOS ANGELES, June 27.-Twt
hundred athletes swing into the
first half Of a two-day track anc
field meet today, bent on winning
places on the Finland-bouno
Olympic team in the final trials
BY nightfall tomorrow, this field
OF survivors of three other exact
ing qualifying meets will be
trimmed to the minimum-three
men in each event.
The main show was to start
this afternoon in Memorial Col
iseum, scene of the 1882 Olympic
Games, with four field events on
the schedule. The heats and finals
in four track events were slated
to follow.
Heats were deemed necessary in
the 100 and 800-meter running
events and the 4O0-meter hurdles,
followed by finals in these races
and the 5,000-meter run. Charley
Capozzoli of Georgetown is among
the 5,000-meter entrants, while
another Georgetown entry, Carl
Joyce, runs in the 800. Bill Mathis,
a former track star at Cardozo
High in Washington and now in
the Army, is in the 100-meter field.
Navy's Allison Making Bid.
Field events on the opening
schedule were the javelin and
hammer throws. the shotput and
the broad jump. Bob Allison of
the Naval Academy is among the
top men in the javelin field.
Tomorrow comes the finale.
with heats and finals in the 11O-
meter high hurdles, the 200 and
4OO-meter dashes and finals in
the 1,500-meter run and 5000
meter steeplechase. Joe LaPierre
|of Georgetown is among those
shooting for a place in the $500.
Field events wind up with the
pole vault, high jump, hop, step
and jump and discus throw.
Main attractions for the antici-
pated 10000 fans tomorrow in
clude the 110-meter hurdles, bring
ing together the worlds finest
Harrison billiard, Jack Davis,
Craig Dixon and Dick Attlesey
among others.
Dlllard. victor in the 1OO-meter
dash in the 1948 Olympics, is ia
vored. Attlesey holds the world
record at 1885. But Attlesey has
still to regain his form after leg
injuries this spring.
Davis is the college champion
but Dillard whipped the field in
the National AAU last week.
Whitfield is 400 Pride.
Pride of the 400-meter dash Isl
Nal Whitfield, another '48 Olym-
pic champion. The Air Force vet
eran handed George Rhoden of
Jamaica. world champion, his first
defeat in many a race a week ago
and is hope to repeat the feat at
Helsinki. Runnerup choice here is
San Francisco's Ollie Matson.
Parson Bob Richards, Don Laz
and Don Cooper, the only active
men who have scaled IS feet,
compete in the pole vault. Rich
ards chief aim in the Olympics
is the pole vault, but he'll defend
his National AAU decathlon title
and bid for the decathlon team at
Tulare, Calf, July and 2 against
Stanford's Olympic king. Bob Ma
thiaS.
Walt Davis, who twice has scaled
s feet 1912 inches this year. is
the high jump choice and Jim
Ford of Drake, the national cham
pion, is the choice to lead in the
200-meter dash.
Discus Toss Seen Dogfight.
The discus form was upset a
week ago by Jim Dillon of ALBANIA
Poly. The toss could be a dog
fight among Sim Iness, Fortune
Gordien and Dillon.
Today's program featured Whit
field and a local favorite, John
Barnes of Occidental, in the 800
meter run. The last time they
met at 800 was a year ago when
Barnes was disqualified for crowd
ing Whitfield.