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Show TRACK RECORDS 1 STAND UP WELL sf ' 'While American Athletes Won Olympc Meet, Former Topnotch Performances Still Rank High. By AJ Copland. It w as not to be expected that any-1 thing sensational would be the outcome of track and field competition during the last year As a general proposition Father Time continues to hold a whip hand over those who attempt to make inroads on the records in his keeping, and this handicap to the offensive of the champions and would-be title holders, hold-ers, as well as the natural reaetlnn warranted war-ranted by the Inroads made on American Ameri-can manhood by the war. served to hold the competitive side of the boys of the country In check. That the war made for a greater clientele lo the track and field side of sport Is not to be dented, but in view of the fact that champions and record holders are not made ovr-tilg'it ovr-tilg'it tho showings made hv the new-coiners new-coiners of the last two ear .r, By long odds the biggest thing in tr and field the world over was seen With i He holding of the Olympic games at Antwerp, where the American team, despite de-spite all manner of difficulty, cleaned up from a sijuad standpoint by taking down the world honors. Individually many of the sons of 1'ncle am lived up to tradition tradi-tion and hung up both Olympic and world's record marks The g! unotir of tho Olympics, however, served to take some of the sheen from national competition, com-petition, and apparently some of the steam from the triers for honors If a line can be had through the fact that, on the whole, existing marks were not mutilated mutil-ated to any great extenL Our Olympic Winners. It Is history worth repeating that in. following men shone as premiers at the Olympics, the different outstaiidm winners being as follows Paddock. l' metres; Woodrlng. 200 metres: Loomls 400 me! re hurdles; Landon. running hlgl Jump. Foss, pole vault; Ryan, hammer throw; McDonald. K-pound weight: 10 metro relay and 3. OOO metre team race, both won by United States teams. Tl I l with the numerous places gained by r. wearers of the shield, served to pi America where iie has stood since thi revival of the Olympic games a Athens In 1S9S at the top of the wore Incidentally, Loomls made a 1 world's record when he annexed th title In the 400 metro hurdle race In seconds, as did the American team I winning the 40n metre relay In 42 1-seconds. 1-seconds. Foss hung up a mark for t' gthletes of future generations to sh.c at when he swung himself over th-hitherto th-hitherto unaporoachable height of I.T feel j 3-1C Inches in the pole vault. The foresolng shows the sum total of the on-claughts on-claughts of America's sons against world's records, although the redoubtable redoubta-ble Pat McDonald, of Broadway and Forty-third street and ndjaccnt points sr-ulh, made a mark of 2j5 feet 11V. inches |