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IIAmerican Track Stars to Invade Eurooe This Yr.CHICAGO CP) — Eight ofAmerica'* outstanding athleteswere preparing Saturday for a foreign invasion. Seven of them were selected Friday night by the National A. A. U. to participate in a scries of track meets abroad this summer, and an eighth was given permission to accompany them and pay hi* own expenses.The group include* Ralph Metcalfe Marquette sprinter; John Anderson, Olympic discus champion; Gler.n Cuuningham, Kansas middle distance runner; George Spitx, New York A. C., high Jumper; Ivan Fuqua, Indiana quarter miler; John Morris*, Southwestern Louisiana institute hurdler; and Joe McCluskey. New York A. C„ t steeglechaser. Henri Lom-barde, Stanford'* discus throw-er. was given permisa'on to make the trip at hi* own expense.George Bresnahan, Iowa track coach, was named a* coach of the squad, which will sail 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 meet is scheduled Jti'y 19 and 30. After four meets in Sweden, the *quad will go to Warsaw, Hanover (Germany), Berlin, Prague, Budanest and Pari* for other competition, re turning home Aug. 18.speed expected in the 100 meter*, came thru to win the broad Jump with a leap of 24 feet, 6% inches.Ed Gordon. Iowa negro and Olympic broad jumper, wa* unplaced in this event.Dr. Patrick O’Callaghan, Ireland's Olympic hamer throw champion, won that event with a thiow of 161feet, 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, 114 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 yesterday 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 Tightl’»e Wall hide Primer andSave 1 Coat 5H. L. Munn Lumber CompanyPHONE 8WE ARE BOOKING
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Sat, Jul 01, 1933
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