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TALENTED TOSSERSBy Paplt;5oet7oat$iOUR NO.IN THE OLVn DISCUS THROW•Jl't*',Vj■ |lt( * * i ktt ii ».14 a• ■ ♦• ■i*itMltl lllll 111*111 f ••••KiiitaiiiliKiMtiali.• •■■•mu.■tiaittiitiiiiiit• ■•llldlli[•■lliiiiiiitaiiiai.■ aiiiiamiaii.ii«laiaaiiai«iai.[■•aUllllaiiiiiiiaiaiaaai*PV M B«r P4 M H■ mpMpmpp'♦♦►♦♦•I Mf •» «♦♦* ki ♦ 4 * *X*ktttikk■ » »‘♦IBOBGarret rWON THEOLV/MPlOCHAMPI0N5HIIIN 1896WITH A TNEOW OF LESS THAN96 ft.VBSS?t/z-■*4\A%•ft•v*.‘eivitff:W*.a.Nr-V3K*£N-CARPEMTEK--A MEMBER. OF THE SQUAD NOW INBerlin has a toss OF 173 ft to hisCREDIT*%•i;Oa/=LAMEICANS NAVE WON TNE EVENT SEVEN OUT OF TEN T/MESOklahoma Tearns Are Featured at DenverDENVER, Aug. 1.—(/P—1TheBlackwell Oilers and the Eason Oilers, Oklahoma baseball clubs, featured the last of the first round games in the Denver Post’s annual baseball tournament here today.Thp Blackwell Oilers from Shawnee, Okla., faced the grand Junction Shell Oilers and the Eason Oilers of Enid, Okla., play the Greeley, Colo., Merchants.Ths second round in the tourney will start Sunday.Second day results In the first round yesterday were:Denver M. and O. Cigars 10; Valdez, Colo., C. F. and X. Miners 0.Denver Midget Cafe 8, Worland Wyo., 2,Pampa, Texas, Danciger Road Runners 12, Leyden, Colo. Miners 2.OPOPTSLAATSy Paponly two of which, the hop, step and jump and the 50,000-meter walk—the Americans appear unlikely to score.If the star spangled brigade gets the breaks and reproduces Its tryout form, there Is a possibility of equalling the best record ever made in Olympic competition abroad, 15 gold medals, acquired both at London in 1908 and at Stockhold In 1912,Four years ago the Americans captured eleven firsts after touching the all-time low of eight at Amsterdam in 1928.The consensus among coaches polled in the Associated Press showed they expect Olympic records to be broken In nine.events, Jesse Owens to prove the outstanding Individual perofrmer -with a triple triumph, and the 1,500 meters to produce the hottest five or six man finish in the history of the metric mile.Only one of five defending champions, Finland’s Mattl Jar-vlnen in the javelin throw, generally is favored to repeat, although Luigi Beccali of Italy In the 1,500 and Volmar Iso-Holo of Finland in the 3,000 meters steepe-chase are rated as having chances to come through again.The records considered most certain to be broken include the shotput and the high jump, bithtomorrow. The Americans are ex-If any single event on the athletic program stands as asymbol of the Olympic Games it is the discus throw. The famous Greek statue of Discobolus typifies the ancient athletic contests more than anything else. The Greeks insisted that the discus throw be included on the program when the modern Olympic Games were inaugurated in 1896, but no Greek ever won the event.From the very start American athletes adapted themselves to the art of plate-tossing with great success. The event was unknown to Americana when the Games were revived. But that didn’t keep Robert Garrett of the American forces from walking off with first honors in 1896. Garrett, a weight-tosser from Princeton, was selected for the event because of his experience with the shot. He hurled the platter almost 96 feet, and that was farther than any of the more experienced contestantscould do.America was not successful In defending the title at the 1900 Games when Bauer of Hungary out-djstanced the field with a throw of slightly more than 118 feet. But the Immortal MartinSheridan regained the title in 1904 and successfully defended in 1906 and 1908. Finland took the championship in 1912 and 1920, but since that time the Unltgd States has ruled supreme. Bud Houser won in Paris, and again at Amsterdam. John Anderson, the former Cornell star, won at Los Angeles in 1932 when he sailed the discus 162 feet 4 7-8 inches for the existing Olympic record.The Art Develops,Garrett’s winning toss of 1898 would hardly net him a prize in' high school competition today. The art of tossing the discus has coma along by leaps and bounds since then. The 96-foot throw of Garrett looks puny when compared with the existing world record for the event. Harald Anderson, of Sweden, holds themark—171 feet 11 3-4 inches— made in 1934. Ken Carpenter of Southern California had a toss ot 173 feet to his credit this spring.America seems fairly well fortified in this classic event this year. In addition to Carpenter, there is Gordon (Slinger) Dunn, former Stanford star, who won the event at the final tryoVs on Randall’s Island, and Walter Wood, Cornell’s intercollegiatechampion.Some idea of the quality of the competition for the three places available on the Olympic squad can be gained from the fact that Phil Levy, a Coast star with a 170-foot toss to his credit, was unable to win a place. John Anderson, essaying a comeback, beat his own Olympic record with a toss of 165 feet this spring, but could not win a berth on the squad which is now in Berlin. Paul Halleck of Ohio university boasted a toss of 167 feet but was not good enough at the final tryout.It’s A Jinx,Records seem to jinx the discus throwers in Olympic competition, Jim Duncan for years held the world mark for the event—156 feet—yet the best he could do at Stockholm in 1912 was third place. Paul Jessup, giant from the University of Washington, boosted the mark to 169 feet 8 7-8 inches at the 1930 national championship meet, but two years later failed to make the squad which competed at Los Angeles.Carpenter, the present record holder, was forced to take second place behind Dunn in the final tryouts and that may be an indication of what he can expect at the international Games in Berlin, The trio selected to represent America looks formidable enough, and if one of the stars happens to be a bit off form on the day of the competition, either of the other two would seem capable of reeling off a toss that will insure the cham-
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