Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-02-28 | Page 13 | Owens Receives Credit for Mark

u wens Receives i Credit for Mark PARIS Feb 28 Disputed CUP UP Disputed track records of two United States athletes Jesse Owens and Forrest Spec Towns were made official today by the International Amateur Amateur Amateur Ama Ama- Athletic federation Owens' Owens mark was seconds seconds sec see for the meter neter dash and Towns' Towns was f for or the meter j high ligh hurdles The latter mark lowered lowered lowered low low- ered Towns' Towns own record of In adopting these hese records the I. I A. A A. A F. F abided abided abided abid abid- ed by the recommendations recommendations recommendations of its record committee which overrode the wishes of its chairman M. M S The projected Owens English fig fight h t against holding the 1940 Olympic games in Tokio as scheduled failed to materialize The dispute of Owens' Owens mark re resulted resulted resulted re- re from of the Chicago track on which he set it June 20 1936 It was found to tobe tobe tobe be instead of meters or of an inch short The committee commit commit- tee decided this fractional distance could in no way have affected the timing Owens also was clocked in in the semifinal heat of the Berlin Olympics but then he did not claim a record because of a slight following wind