Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-03 | Page 14 | Olympic Hopes

I m I II W- W i. i 43 s. s EOD E TOLAN- TOLAN The Wolverine Express Get aboard it for the 1932 Olympic games in Los Lo Angeles Although Eddie Tolan ran a world record yard dash o of 95 seconds second In m 1929 he is still the most defeated championship sprinter in years There arc are two explanations for this riddle neither o of them satisfactory One i is that the Michigan negro has frequent off days The other is that his opponents opponents sometimes run faster than a at other times Any way you ou figure it Eddie is still fast In hi three and a halt half years of indoor and outdoor competition the University sity of ot Michigan speedster has been beaten frequently by S Simpson Wykoff Wykoff Wyk Wyk- 0 off Bracey Dyer and lately latey late late- ly Iy y by e Marquette university sophomore Between defeats he has made an official world record in the century and has has' held national and yard ard dashes Big Ten century and turlon furlong and intercollegiate yard dash championships On top of ot these achievements he has beaten Perc Percy Williams Canadian Olympic winner in n 1928 1922 at meters in m 10 1015 5 1 seconds s one fifth second under the accepted world mark All this makes him harder to figure than Bat Battalino when the Bat held the featherweight champ championship p. p