Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 54 | Records Fall as Track, Fieldsters Make Good Showing

r I iT Records Record Fall Pall as asTrack asTrack Track Make Good Showing Olympic Feature Season Crowning Many New Champions with th the Ol Olympics Olympic a as a stimulus track and anti field perl performers p pUt t on a dazzling th allOw w at home mid arid abro abroad d. d Over two score r records cords Ind indoors ors and out O Were tOppled topple with th the th heaviest assaults being made in th the sho shot put javelin throw tIle pole ol e vault and broad The downfall of oi Yankee sprinters in the Olympics along with that o ol at Lloyd LloYl bIter after showing s sensational S form at homO home shared Interest in Paavo o Nurmi's first Olympic defeat since 1920 and the rise lUse of oC new German athletic stars was was tho big star of the tho American md indoor s season as n cracking the tho worlds world's mile half record but the Boston Express s Was 1 sId sidetracked track d as s Do Douglas ilas LoWe ve thi the he British ace c Went v nt b by at Amsterdam AMERICAN N S SPRINTERS FLOP The sprinters r led ed by hy y flying Frank Wykoff looked unbeatable t ible as I they ther b bUrned up Uli the tracks ih lit th the Olympic trials but all took the dust of Percy erey Williams lams Unheralded Canadian Canadian Ca Ca- a- a nadian at nt eI mj just as Jole Ray Conger Lermond Ma Mac Smith the rest foUnd Nurmi L Larva E El arid and others rs too swift 8 t for r them thein at the longer distances Hay Itay although beaten at Amster dam darn after atel setting the pace a a. good share of f tire way finished third first firstS S and ind fourth in his three big mata mara th thons ns na to show ther was wils still stilla a lot of hI r running left leit In hi his system m. m Job Jole turned pro at Itt t the 1119 end end- of f the he year to b barnstorm with El I Q YANKEES YANKEE'S EXCEL AT SHOT The shot put marks took look a a. poundIng poundIng pounding pound pound- ing from the Yankee Big Fo poUr Four r Brix Rothert Krenz and Kuck uck as well as at from from EmU the G German rm n sensation Kuck finally ln lt got grot off oU the b best st heave e of f the year at Anist Amster Amsterdam r- r dam dam dainto to win tire the Olympic HU title and set seta a 11 ne new world re record rd of 52 62 fe feet t Carr and Lee Barnes Barne flirted flIrt d with 14 f feet et or better r all ye year tI In th the pole vault a mark no other athlete t thas has touched Carr won n the intercollegiate intercol leg late and Olympic crowns cro besides S holding the Indoor rec record rd of or and nd the outdoor 1 re record ord of 14 even Barnes won the national title after ter clearing tearing 14 feet test 1 Hi Inches on the coast but It w wasn't approved d Ed of Ark Arkansas ns s and Georgia Tech blazed a new hew broad I jumping trail winning all national and arid Olympic titles in r record break cord cord-br J ing fashion n. n I STANFORD WINS I I 1 Morgan Mol Taylor 1 In the 4 meter meter I hurdles s BUd Spencer ih In the I j meter dash P of Finland and Ms hIs countryman Ih In the dee dec ec- ec C wet other World t I breakers rs for 1928 1026 I DInk ink T t s 's ogre great t Stanford te team Won on the forthe for fOl forthe I th the ee second nd str straight year C r b by a one one one- sided margin while the Hollywood d dA A C. C took the the- Nati KaU ilal A A. A A. A U Uj I 1 rte team i 1 title iba back k to th the Pacific coast o St St.