Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1928, Page 24

Yankee PREVALEDFOR AL Improvements Are Hoped for: When Meet Is Held at Los Angeles in 1932. BY WALTER TRUMBULL ates Olym- sport for sport e days the rac countries we ved victory is that the U its track athletes best, and most of them it Most of them had run v in better time the were beater h runne! th competitors. od States runners were . or if they trained too fine e enuogh, why didn't the >If instead of training urdle races they train- why didn’t out their print T & pie-eating contest lder men in charge point mistake I have read long newspaper articles by coaches and trainers, I have perused long interviews with them, demonstrat- ing how the climate. the weather, the living conditions, the marshes, the canals, the cooks. the starters, the judges, the photographers, the archi fects. the League of Nations. the World and the Dutch One-eyed Con conspired to do the United States | team dirt. I should rather have read one brief cable. saying ‘Wykoff wins 100," or in record time. Moreover, 1t seems to me that there are too many officials at the Olympics. The games were re-established to bring nations closer together and instil a lit- tle more sportsmanship into the world The sight and sound of officials squab- bling with other countries and then doing a little private fighting among themselves is not ennobling. Somehow it doesn't seem to fit the supposed spirit of the occasion. We go to the Olympic games to show our best, and, if beaten, to say cheer- fully and sincerely, “You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.” We don't go to the games to show our second “Hahn victor best. and scowl and whine about not ' getting the breaks. In 1932 the Olympics are' scheduled for Los Angeles. I should like to see many things changed before that time. | 1 hope that the United States will treat visiting athletes as honored guests. or at jsast 25 most friendly rivals. If there isn't pie enough for all, the visitors £hould be served first. I should like to see all competing teams housed in the same hotels—if possible in the outskirts of the city where the air is sweet and clean—and I should like to see the officials and tieiners assigned to the smaller and inside rooms. I should lke to see the sthletes of all competing nations use the same dining halls and the same busses and cars to the same practice fields 1 should like to see practice times as- signed for sprinters and distance run- ners and field men, and to have the boys of all nations work out together. 1 should like to see every man go to the mark at his best if the combined efforts of the eoaches of all nations could send him there in that condition. Then let the best man win, and more power to him 1 should like to see more hands ex- tended in friendship and fewer extended for the purpose of shoving somebody on his nose. 1 should like to see the origi- nal intention of the Olympics attract a little more attention. 2 little less em- phasis on winning, a little more empha- s on sports © 1 believ p is the thing at y can THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTO Runners Have No Valid Alibis for Poor Showing Made in Olympic Games [OLYMPICS IN NUTSHELL By the Associated Press. TODAY'S PROGRAM. Swimming, rowing, boxing, fencing, cycling and gymnastics. YESTERDAY'S FEATURES. Rowing competition reached quarter finals, with American representatives still in five of the seven regatta divisions. Martha Norelius, United States, captured women’s 400- meter free style swim championship and broke world record Arne Borg, Sweden, won men's 1,500-meter free style event. Americans advanced in breast siroke and springboard div- ing trials. Hungary whitewashed United States in water polo, 5 to 0. Johns Hopkins lacrosse team was defeated by Great Britain, 7 goals to 6. Germany score wrestling. Lieut. George C. Calnan and Dr. Allen B. Milner, United States, advanced in individual epee fencing championship com- petition HOPKINS STICKMEN I [ | | d first team championship in Greco-Roman vle Swim (Women) s Martha Norelius. arie Braun. Holland, McKim. _United Great Britain, ss_ Vanderooes. South _Africa. Vera Tanner. Great Britain. e, 5:424 (new world and Olym 100-Meter Free on by tes; Miss iss _Josephine third: Miss Stewart Miss ust ¥ f A Final Johns | United Sta v lacrosse team went | ${000 expected defeat before Eng- fourth the dark horse of the Olympic |sixth T ase competition, by a score of 7 |Pic record) i | 1.500-Meter Free Style Swim. e | Final Won by Arne Borg. Sweden: An- In a thrilling_exhibition which (‘ru‘\;bcl\t‘rllond gu!(nhn‘ secopd Clarence saw first one, then the other take the | Crabbe, United States. third; Ray Rudgy: lead, the superior stickwork and indi- | United Sistes. (aurih g g vidual brilllancy of the British enabled | Time. "19:314% (new world and Olvmpic them to nose out Hopkins. The game | record) might have been anybody's and the re- | St oy ult was in doubt until the very end. | i o g e POEEN O, Ten minutes from the end England | eriorith 163 points. Plumans. Get- scored the seventh goal, to lead by one, | many, second with 148 points: Alfred Phil- s¢ h g Y . S ohr then until the final whistle | lips, Canada. third with i34 points. Al Hopkine surged incessantly to the at- | dutlified for the fina) L only o see shot after shot xe- | 3 )N TRACK TEAM IN ENGLAND FOR MEET keeper. And what would have been the equalizing goal was disallowed because the scorer was in the crease Hopkins gained a 3 to 1 lead but the | LONDON, August 7 (P).—Twenty- Britien speedily deadlocked the issue at | four Canadian athletes, in charge of 3eall Just before intermission Hopkins | Capt. J. R. Cornelius, manager of the shot ahead at 4 to 3 Canadian Olympic team, arrived In Briton went to the front at 5 to 4 | London today from Amsterdap. early in the second half, but Hopkins. |~ They immediately began practicing scoring at intervals of about five gt the Stamford Bridge grounds for the minutes, again took the lead at 6 to 5. | track meet between Great Britain and England soon tied it up again and & ' the United States which will be held little later got the deciding marker. Saturday. Fifteen of the Canadians are to par- ticipate that day. Hopkins England Tweedale | Fian weatant | -5. 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Rowing competition reached the quar- ter-finals \;3111 United States represent~ atives, still surviving in five of the seven classes. The Penn Barge Club’s four- oared combination without coxswain, the same club's two-oared crew and the double scullers, Paul Costello and Charles Mcllvaine of Philadelphia_all came through their tests yesterday. The University of California’s eight-oared crew meets Italy today and Ken Myers, the Philadelphia single sculler, engages the Swiss, Candeveau, in his specialty. STEVENSON TO PLAY ON AMERICAN FOUR By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 7.—Malcolm Stevenson, veteran internationalist and one of the four 10-goal men in the polo world, has relinquished a previous decision to retire from international competition and will play with the United States team against Argentina next month. Tryouts have been in progress for several woeks with only Tommy Hitchcock, new captain of the squad, assured of a place. Despairing of finding a man for the difficult No. 3 position, the United States Polo Assoclation persuaded Stevenson to reconsider. Thus the nucleus of the team will be formed about Stevenson at No. 3 and Hitcheock at No. 2. For the No. 1 and back positions the leading candidates at present are Capt. C. A. Wilkinson, the flery Army star; W. Averill Harri- man, J. Cheever Cowdin, Bobby Straw- bridge, .jr., and Winston Guest, former YANKS DOING WELL IN WATER EVENTS | Capture One Swimming Title. Still in Five of Seven Rowing Contests. will be for the champlonship of the Americas. Bannockburn’s club championship in classes A and B will start next week and will be concluded September 30. By the Assoclaled Press. MSTERDAM, August 7.—Ameri- cans who do their daily dozen with the aid of water and lots of it are having their Olympic nnings NOw Track and field events held the stage during the first cight days of the Olym- pic games, almost excluding other | branches of sport from anyshing more than a sort of “among-those-present’ mention. | 'Now the spotlight has shifted from | dry land to the swimmers and the oarsmen. Buffeted about considerably !in the track and field championships, | the United States i» soping for a little | calm sailing on the water. | swimming competition has reached the stage where the United States can | begin counting its Olympic champion- ships. The total, so far, is exactly one. It was made possible by the great sprinting ability of Martha Norelius of the Women's Swimming Association of New York, who won the 400-meter free-style swim for women yesterday in world record time. Her time 5 minutes 42 4-5 seconds, clipping 2 3-5 seconds off the world mark she her- self established in the preliminary trials on Saturday. Third place went to another American, Josephine McKim of the Homestead Library Club, Home- | oil% ;;:::;‘P;r. ;\{l;;)lafl"\:;ahpd behind Fraulein Steventon plased against England In Sweden took the other final veste “9~",, and again last year, @ay, that ‘human fsh; Arne Borg, | ROWINE WaS 3o good At his handi- | aplushing his way to vidtory in the| S0P WaS relied from elghh fo ten goals, | 1,500-meter free-style event for men. | an henor shared only by Hitchcock. | And what is more his time of 19:514-5 | Devereaux Milburn and Lewis Lacey, bettered the listed world and Olympic | records. The defending champion, An- drew Charlton of Australia, was second, | while Clarence Crabbe of Honolulu and Ray Ruddy of the New York A. 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