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Show YOUTHFUL MENACE IN FIELD OF ATHLETICS Mere Infant in Teens Holds Goodly Share of Records. Host of Youngsters Have Been Showing Show-ing Their Heels to Their Elders in Their Respective Branches of Sport. What chance have the old folks in their twenties or the senile athletes who have passed the thirty-year mark with the host of mere infants in their teens who hold such a goodly share of athletic records and 'consider it no achievement af all to smash a record almost at will? There is Johnny AVeissrauller who at seventeen lays vlaim to no less than IS world's records in the water, and is said to be the greatest swimmer of all times ; Bud Housor, also seventeen, who defeated Pat McDonald in the shot-put with ease ; Vincent Richards, not yet twenty, and almost a veteran on the tennis courts; Glenna Collett, the eighteen-year-old golfing phenome- V" "U Jr.-.'.-. ;v' ,'S Jlpr 1 Vincent Richards. non; Bobby Jones, wonder golfer, still in bis teens; Eileen Riggin, a member of the Olympic team and winner of the world's fancy diving championship champion-ship at the tender age of fourteen; Helen Wainwright and Ethelda Bleib-try, Bleib-try, both expert swimmers. These and a host of others have been showing their heels- to their elders el-ders in their respective branches of sport and hanging up new records with surprising ease and frequency. Does it mean that there is a new era in American athletics with youth reigning supreme? If so, what will these juveniles do to present records when they 'nave attained their full powers? Will they accomplish seemingly seem-ingly impossible marks or will they be forced to bow to another and younger generation? |
