Show I i I ng g S By Frank Baker Telegram Sports Editor Promises to Give Wykoff Plenty of Competition Frank Wykoff of Southern Calif California Califor or nia nia- is the national yard dash champion but he will not be able t to relax at an any stage of the sprint route and keep ahead of or ofa orn a n fast improving southerner Emmett Emmett Em- Em mett I was on W heels in inthe inthe inthe the national outdoor outdoor outdoor out out- door championship century c c n t u r y last year yeal run in 95 seconds sec see and he seems to be steadily im hn- im- im proving The tenth o Olympiad 1 y m pia d this summer promises j to be exactly the inspiration needed to spur some cla classic competition between between be be- I be-I tween these two aces I IThe The Tulane star easily has been the thel sprint sensation of the winter The Thel compact youth packs a tremendous I burst of speed His dashes down the thel boards made him a prime favorite I with the metropolitan galleries a al popularity to which his windmill style and good nature contributed Olympic Year Always Stimulating to Athletes With the outdoor track meets only a few weeks away it is hoped that the boys bOs upon whom Olympic hopes arc are being pinned with much enthusiasm sm this winter do not as many of their predecessors have done leave their best track and field performances perform perform- ances on the boards The record-busting record onslaught has been extended over a 0 wide range this winter just as it invariably has been prior to all preceding Olympics It leads ends one to wonder if it George Spitz and Gene will carry carryon on their spectacular performances once they get out of doors An Olympic year in athletics is always always always al al- al- al ways stimulating Athletes took a peculiar delight in knocking the records records records rec rec- about in the winter of 1924 Among them was Harold Osborn who high jumped 6 feet 6 inches indoors and went on to capture the Olympic crown at Paris But Osborn was an exception Spitz may be the same At any rate he is in a class by himself himself him him- self sell now with his indoor leap of ot 6 feel feet feelS 8 S inches Much the same furor on the boards preceded the 1928 1028 games That winter Lloyd Hahn was the cause of as much excitement as has hns produced this winter vinter Hahn ran a worlds world's record half mile mite indoors in 5 1512 5 2 equaled the worlds world's record for 1000 yards ards and raced the mile In to beat but Ray Conger and Otto Peltier Yet he was a big ble disappointment at both the and 1500 meters In the Olympics s that tout summer Finns and Britons who had Iud been doing no indoor running what what- er ei-er ever galloped off with most all the cinder path laurels I Modern Games Continuation Of Ancient Sports This summers summer's Olympiad bringing some 2000 athletes from rom 38 nations to Los Angeles July 30 to August 14 is a D continuation of the series started as the modern modem Olympics in 1896 Olympic competition however goes back further than the Athens games of 1896 for lor it was in B. B C C. C that the first recorded games were held Historians even declare that these ancient games were revivals of previous previous previous pre pre- games believed to have been originated by Hercules The Olympic games of ot antiquity were held at Olympia a sacred spot near the western coast of Greece where Greeks met Greeks in a five five- day festival every four years to w worship wor wor- r- r ship their gods and witness games in in honor of Zeus better known ns DS Jupiter Olympus Two Olympiads Have ave Not Been Representative Baron Pierre de a 3 Frenchman is regarded as the father j of the present Olympics He worked with great energy before the modern i j j- j convened at ata S1 a in 1896 t c 1 c Every four years u ince that time timer s r Barnes ames have benJ been ben J i slated in some i leading city of the 1 l h world Only two f were not J The he Berlin l Olympiad of 1914 i 2 l canceled due duei h u f i J to the World war t 1 4 and tand the 1904 b games fames lat Jat at St St. Louis beset bese t w by sundry troubles drew only two I countries besides Jim Thorpe the United States The international Olympic committee commit commit- tee never has considered team standings stand stand- ings The fhe scoring was left t to th the energy of sports writers to devise de a ac schedule c of points which crown rown a nation notion as winner Tb Olympic committee recogne recognize nize ne only individual prowess the most outstanding example being he hc hc drama packed into the 1912 games games by Jim Thorpe the great American Indian athlete Thorpe carried off almost all of the Individual individual indi Indi- vidual honors only to lo lose e his cups and medals when he was declared to be a professional proCessional because because because be- be cause he had bad a little bush hush league baseball |