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Show 5 T LOYD HAHN'S world's record I half mile run of 1:51 on 5 " the Intercollegiate track has M demonstrated conclusively that the S sturdy Nebraskan is America's g main hope for a double victory In 5 the 800 and 1,500- g meter runs at the v Olympics this sum- mer. 5 Not since Mel S Sheppard turned g the trick twenty 8 years ago at Lon- S don has any Amer- 3 lean come home S first In these two 8 events. Hahn will x be up against the g stiffest competition S at Amsterdam, but $ his performances within the past 5 few weeks have focused fresh at- v t e n 1 1 o n on his 8 chances of gaining 2 anOlympictrlumpti. Lloyd Hahn. 5 Halm's sensational half-mile rec- 9 ord came only three nights after 5 he had ran Ray Conger and Dr. i Otto Peltzer Into he hoards In a g 4:13 mile at the Knights of Colum- g bus meet. g Had he negotiated the mile on S the lightning fast Intercollegiate track where he clipped three and g one-fifth seconds from the twen- g ty-four-year-old Indoor 880-yard 5 record, Hahn, track experts be- fi lieve, would have gone over the 6 distance in somewhere near 4 :10. 2 Liann nor. om.v a blasted the Indoor S half-mile record, g but surpassed the g outdoor world's v record of 1 :5l set by Doctor Pelt- g zer, who was a wit- g ness to the Amer- S lean's great per- B f o r m a n c e. Two g years ago Hahn g was credited with g a half mile In 6 1:21 on the an- S chor leg of a relay 5 race at the nation- 5 al championships at g I'hlladelpbia. S i Doctor Peltzer g was even more eh- g t h u s I n s 1 1 c than g Hahn after the race. Warm in his K praise of his American rival, the g German champion expressed the g hope that they might cut the rec- g ord down to the new time of g 1 :50 If conditions were found to 2 be favorable In the Olympic 800- 5 meters championship this summer. S |