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Show Irwin faM Goes W 1 Yards isi Little Over ; Nine Seconds' Irwin Mahl, a young western sprint- j er, now a resident of St. Louis, has sent the Mound City followers of track and field sport wild by running j a trial 100 yards in the marvelous time of 9Vv seconds, figures which, if ac- j complished in a correct way, would . wipe all previous records off the slate. , The trial was made on the Washing- j Ion university path, and the timing was done, it is claimed, by a pair of competent pluckers of sprint races. What has caused the excitement i.si the factT that Mahl is training for the National A. A. U. championship this j week, when he will meet the fleetest J men In the United States over the 100 -yard scramble. For some time it was known that Mahl was moving fast, but nobody thought he was capable of leaving the century behind him in much faster than "even time." The trial has put the St. Louis sprinter favorite for the gold medal on September Sep-tember 21. Even good as Mahl is claimed to be, he wjjl have to crowd on all his steam to show his heels to some, of the prospective pros-pective entries. One of' these Is Howard How-ard Drew, holder of the world record of 9 3-5 seconds, who is now preparing pre-paring for the fray at Des Moines, Iowa. Contrary to all theories that men do not come back, Drew came back last spring and showed his old-time form In some sprints on the Pacific coast. Then there Is Billy Ganzmuller, the Intercollegiate champion, who will represent the Meadowbrook club of Philadelphia. It is said that Joe Loomis and J. V. Scholz, who won the century cen-tury at the Penn relays last spring, will be among the starters. |