America Has Fine Crop of Crack A 11-Around Athletes Entrants Plentiful for Decathlon Decath-lon and Pentathlon Events in Olympic Games Despite Loss of Legendre; Coast Contributes Stars. By JACK A'EIOCK, International Sporting- Xcws Editor. XEW YORK, April 10. Ono of America's most brilliant athletes was cqunted out as a possible Olympic ;fraint winner recently when Robert Legendre, national pentathlon champion cham-pion and winner of that event in the Interallied Ramos In Paris, broke his leg in training at Georgetown unhei-slty. unhei-slty. As a result of his unfortunate accident acci-dent Legendre will be unable to compete com-pete In the pentathlon and decathlon finals at Harvard in July, and his loss Is keenly felt, for he has been generally general-ly regarded as.-6no of the brightest prospects since the days of Jim Thorpe". ' Fortunately this country is able to boast' no less than a dozen all-around all-around athletes aside from Legendre, who may be . counted on to offer the hottest Ijlnd of competition in tho decathlon de-cathlon and pentathlon events at Antwerp Ant-werp next summer. Sp the. loss of Legendre. Le-gendre. though regrettable, is by no means a cru3hlng blow to the hopes of America. Foremost Stars. The foremost all-around athletes who will vie with one another for tho i honor of representing America in thej stellar Individual events In the Olympic1 games are S. Harrison Thompson, the! Princeton university star; .Vol Butler of Dubuque college. C. L. Lewis of Missouri university. Arthur Tucu, Multnomah A. C, Portland. Ore.; Lauri Karimo, Young Men's Order, Detroit; Bernard Liehtman. Pastime A. C, New York; Earl Thomson. Dartmouth Dart-mouth university; Carl Johnson. University Uni-versity of Michigan; Jack Frltts, New York Athletic club; E. L. Vldal, U. S. Military academy; W. F. Barlols, University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania; William Yount, Redlands university, Callfor-I nla; ITaymond, Richards, Larson andi Martin of the Ogdcn A. A. j Here is a brilliant constellation. ' Out of these sixteen stars the Olympic" committee expects to find several sure point winners for the American team In both the modern pentathlon and the decathlon events. Six entrants will be made in each event, four to compote, and there Is promise that tho final trials at Cambridge between these great athletes will develop the greatest competition America has ever seen. Yount a Star. According to athletic experts on the' Pacific coa3t, Bill Yount is one of the most brilliant athlotes ever developed. Robert Weaver, president of the Southern Pacific association of the A. A. L, said recently that Yount is a remarkable performer. He is a stock-ily stock-ily built athlete weighing about 175 pounds, and has marvelous endurance. endur-ance. Weaver has seen him win tho 100. 220, -HO-yatd dashes, the high and low hurdles, the pole vault and the high jump, flnsh second In the shotput and run a quarter of a mile on the rolay team at Redlands uni-vorslty, uni-vorslty, all in ono af ternbon. Yount's best records are 10 seconds for the hundred, 23 feet for the running run-ning broad Jump. 1 1 feet S Inches for tho pole Vault, 5 feet S Inches In the high Jump, 50 seconds In the quarter mile, 25 seconds. In" tho 220-vard low hurdles and 42 feet with the ifi-pound shot. This rcmarkablo Californian was eager to get into the national all-around all-around championship In the east last year, but he waa disappointed at tho last moment, as ho had never trained for tho hammer throw or tho 56-pound 56-pound weight. After eight weeks' practice he threw the hammer ,135 feet and tossed the 5C-pound weight 25 feet. Another westerner whose praises are being sung by experts from beyond be-yond tho Rocky mountains Is Artie Tuck, from Portland. Tuck won the national junior javelin throwing championship at Philadelphia last September with a throw of ITS feet, and Is going to make a alrong bid for a place on the Olympic team in this event. Ills best throw with the javelin jave-lin is 205 feet, made In practice. He has hurled the dlscu3 145 feet, has made 23 feet in the running broad Jump and has run 200 meters in J2 seconds. He can also run a strong mile. If he Is able to" come close to these performances in the Olympic trials ho Is sure of a place on the team. Thomson of Princeton, the intcr-collegiate intcr-collegiate all-around champion, is a I wonderfully brilllunt man. So Is John-' John-' son of Michigan and Bartels of Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. AH of the other men named here are highly competent athletes in at least three events. fU"3 -rv- j. , PW-ncctorv.