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American Track Stars to Invade Eurone This Yr.CHICAGO a?.R — Eight of America’* outstanding athletes were preparing Saturday for a foreign invasion. Seven of them were selected Friday night by the National A. A. IJ. to participate in a scries of track meets abroad this summer, and an eighth was given permission to accompany them and pay his own expenses.The group includes Ralph Metcalfe Marquette sprinter; John Anderson. Olympic discus champion; Oler.n Cunningham. Kansas middle distance runner; George Spitz, New York A. C., high jumper; Ivan Fuqua. Indiana quarter mller; John Morriss, Southwestern Louisiana institute hurdler; and Joe McCluskey. New York A. C„4 stee»lechaser. Henri Lom-barde, Stanford's discus thrower, was given pcrmiss'on to make the 11Ip at his own expense.Gforge Bresnahan, Iowa track coach, was named as coach of the squad, which will i«ai) Wednesday night from New York on the North German Lloyd liner Deutschland for Hamburg. They probably will fly from Hamburg to Stockholm, where the first me*»t is scheduled Ju'y 19 and 20. After four meets in Sweden, the squad will go to Warsaw, Hanover (Germany). Berlin. Prague, Budanest and Pari* for other competition, re turning home Aug. IS.Jesse Owens. Cleveland negro schoolboy, by four yards. Metcalfe won the 200 meters in 21.1 second*, three-tenths of a second faster thanthe meet record made by Charley Borah, U. of Southern California, in 1928. Johnson finished second inthe 200 meters far behind Metcalfe.Two other meet records were relegated to the scrapheap— Cornelius Johnson, Los Angeles aegro high school boy. winning the high lump at 6 feet, 7 Inches, and Heye Lamhertus, Nebraska's Big Six hurdle champion, capturing the 200-meter low hurdles in 23 4, one-tenth of a second under Bob Maxwell'srecord made last year. The former high jump mark was 6 fret, 6^ inches, held jointly by Johnson, George Spitz. New York A. C., and Bob Van Osdel, Southern Call*Owen*, who failed to show thespeed expected in the 100 meter*, came thru to win the broad Jumpwith a leap of 24 feet, 6% inches.Ed Gordon. Iowa negro and Olympic broad jumper, was unplaced in this event.Dr. Patrick Q'Callaghan, Ireland’s Olympic hamer throw champion, won that event with a throw of 161 feet, 3% Inches. Another Olympic champion who came thru was John Anderson, New York A. C. athlete who won the Olympic discus throw, and captured the same event last night with a mark of 165 feet, Hi inches, only a little more than four feet off the world record.The women’s National A. A. U. track and field title was won by the Illinois Women’s A. C, of Chicago with 45 points, in a dull meet yesterday afternoon. A re-run of the 400-meter relay race, won yester^ day by the Illinois Women's A. C. In 48 seconds, a new meet record, was scheduled today as the result of a protest.THE FIRST COATMust Stick Tightr*e Wall hide Primer andSave 1 Coat!H. L. MunnLumber CompanyPHONE 2WE ARE BOOKING ORDERS POEAmes—KelleyAMES GRAIN COAL CO.
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Sat, Jul 01, 1933
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