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Show TRACK MEET OF OLYMPIC GLASS America Could Win Games With Men of Franklin Field, Expert Says. EHILiADELPHIA, May 31t Amori- H ca would como "mighty close" to IH winning tho Olympic gamco with a IH team selected from among the com- IH potltors In the lntorcolloglato meet H here, said Gu.stavlia T. Kirby, presi- H dont of the American Olympic com- H mlttcc, and chairman of the I. C. A. H A. A., advisory committee, In discuss- H Ing today the results of the college track and field championships on 1 "Klrkaey, the Stanford sprinter, is H ono of the best short distance men I havo seen in years and with Lc- H Coney of Lafayette should make the H American Olympic team." Mr. Kirby jJ said. "Klrksoy might havo won the lH hundred, evon in his crippled condi- H tlon, but had sonso enough to refrain, H his ton don giving away. I LeConev. although I was obliged to 1 declare him Ineligible under tho I. C. A. A. A. ope year resident rule, will H be eligible for its Olympic team H "Brown of Princeton, is another star sprlntor, but the Princeton mon H will not return- from their dual meet with Oxford and Cambridge in Lon- H don In time to compoto for the United jH States Olympic team. IH "I think that many of the men will IH exceed their form of yesterday when they compete on the same track in the Olympic try-out June 2G. Hen- H drixson and Merchant, from the Paci- H flc coast are two great -athletes and H will suroly place themselves In the H Pasadena Olympic trials." IH oo jH |