The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1928, Page 5

BRINGING UP FATHER | HOPE NOBODY S rARTS KILLIN' MOSQUITOES AROUND HERE OR HE'LL THINK THEY ARE APPLAUDIN' HIM- o Wty e land has monopolized the event since By ALAN J. GOULD (Aseociated Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, May S8-—Barring| some unforcseen developments be- tween now d the first week of August, the fleetest arrdy of mid- dle distance runners in track his- tory will toe the marks for tha final of the Olympic 800-meter race at Amsterdam. Picture the prospective struggle of speed, courage and resourceful- ness with these five stars alone in’ the final: RY TO WIN OLYMPIC S LOWE ~Ezgland, MARTIN ~ defending champion 4 oLYMPICg Have a look at perhaps the greatest crop of half-milers the v.orld’nas cver seem. to toe their marks at Amsterdam in an 80Q-meter race that’s a natural if ever there was one. the war and has tied the United States in total victories. THANK GOODNESS) |DOYOU KNOW THAT'S OVER- i France #|SAM FOUR~-THIS 1S THE RUBBER THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928. 15 THAT S07 WELL,HE -y CERTAINLY (WHY-MR-J1GGS - | WASTED A HE STUDIED SEVEN YEARS N EUROPE? Service, Inc NEW SCHEDULE | yved in WHY, THE SAXOPHONE | ONE OF THE HARDEST INSTRUMEN the vesterday were taveling fterncon on the ‘hedule for ‘this Hollywood. ngeles at 5 ar at Mi \ rancisco at Oakland. open lowin Seatt] a Philadelphi New Yor Boston 4; Pittsburgh 9 Brockiyn 5; St. Louis 6 American League Detroit 0; Philadelphia 10. Chicago sw York 8. St. Louis q Cleveland STANUisG OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost 22 : 21 29 acramento San Francisco Hollywood Y y 'Beattls 11 PELTZER~ | Sl Germany I Won Lost |New York 6 Brooklyn [ Pittshurgh 9 Cincinnati 10 Chicago 12 All four are Louis .... 11 Eng- Boston 11 | Philadelphia 14 National 8C0-METER CHAMPIONS NEW YORK, May $—Olym- pic 800-meter running cham- pions and their times: 1896 Flack, Eng 1900 Tysoe, Eng. 2 1904 Lightbody U. 8. 1 1906 Pilgrim, U. S. .2 1908 Sheppard U. S..1 | 1912 Meredith, U. 1 1920 Hill, Eng. 1 1924 Lowe, Eng. 1 Il it | traveling | nation American League | Won' Lost New York 15 1 Cleveland 15 9 Philadelphia 10 5 St. Louis 147 11 mon- ' gt 11 opolized the Olympic “800. Kach SN H has won the even four 16 times. Since the w ngland 14 been supreme. In 1920 A. G., e e > FIVE AMERICAN GOLFERS READY going well and didn't realize un- was all over that I was er than ever before in my 1 Ameri and Britain have Chicago Boston barely a yard. 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Lloyd Hahn, American ace who holds the world’s indoor half-mile record of 1:512-5. Phil Edwards, great negro star, American trained but an Olympic representative of Canada. Seraphin Martin, French sensa- tion, conqueror of Peltzer and credited with the fastest 800-meter time of the past season, 1:52 4-5. Here are five runners all capa- ble of doing the “800” in 1:52 or| better, a mark that has been beat-| en only once in all Olympic his-| tory. There may be other con-| tenders, including Ray Conger and Ray Watson of the American bri- gade, but the spotlight will be on the Big Five. 1 | front, but onds, he then still keeping nw! lead. When the bell rang, Sh'-lri pard was still leading, with Mer: dith close behind him. On leav- ing the last curve, Sheppard still lay first, but now Meredith came with his spurt which brought him nearer and nearer to the leader, |M: For a moment it looked very pos- sible that Braun would get to the he did not succeed, probably mostly on account of the | pace given to the finish by the phenomenal final spurt made by | Sheppard and Meredith. Daven- port came on, too, in the last five meters, and then Braun was run out. He lost his stride and was within a hair’s breadth of being beaten out by Caldwell on the very post. Meredith won the race ' Certainly this is the greatest as-| sembly of half-milers for any race since the 1912 Olympics, but the competition may be no more] thrilling than it was in the epic “800” final at Stockholm 16 years 280. | ‘That was the last time America captured this feature of the Olym- pic program, but the Yankees, made a field day of it by putting six out of eight men in the final| by half a meter from Sheppard,! who was only a hands’ breadth | before Davenport, Meredith’s time for the half mile (804% me-| ters) was 1:5215." 1 a narrow margin from accomplis| ing what no Olympic champion has ever been able to do—repeat | his victory in a track race after| a four-year interval. “Peerless! 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It has had an ing down to date ageney in Alaskd, unbroken record of fair deal- and finishing 1-28 as Ted Mflre-’M 1” had won the “800" at Lon.. | do to. 1 i and is today the strongest dith, the 18-year-old schoolboy, i 2 lon in 1908, outrunning Lunghi of | l;eon;tl‘ l?:ell.ecS::{ward and broke tho{ufl'y 12 Brnll(;r'n of 05‘ 3""' p Swedish athletic the then world’s record time of| sagas are ..., , « | & ey ‘akiind ) Ahasetapscthaien]L0] £0 8bd) was tipatarorite ln We want you to make use of our service struggle which ended with four 11912, ; ! whether you are a customer or not. Americans and the German star,| Meredith's unission fn that race | y Braun, separated by only seven.! Was to push Sheppard and givs| tenths of a second in @ dime-novel |the veteran as much pace as pos- finish. |sible. 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