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Show I" Tout Elder as Olympic Hope. :: ; j "?V -vOTI!E DAM E ever had an Olympic candidate, he is Jack Elder. t y 1 the Hying l-'enian on track as well as on the gridiron. The Irish :' cinder ace and one of the most promising backs on Coach ltoekees ,. eleven strengthened his claim to represent America in the sprints at y '', the international mithering next July when he demonstrated by his .:, recent flashy finishes that he is ns . X X good a sprinter in the open air asJ j- he Is indoors. And. as an indoor time of :07.4 for the seventy-five- X sprinter. Elder has no superior, yard length established by II. A. .'. When Jack Elder won the sixty- Russell of Cornell in 1926, who ran i .j. yard dash for the X lirst time this sea- j. son against Norm X western to tie the A world indoor record X :00.2, some of the : sport fans judged X him a "flash in the j pan," an athlete who .j. would stay in the y foreground overniirln .j. only. But the Irish X star showed heels j, to all his conipeti X tors, finishing in the y front in every meet X in which lie ran. .!. Durina the indoor 1 I ? V ! I the distance in equal y time indoors and out- X doors. This record y is recognized as a national collegiate y mark. The Irish star X turned in his stellar y performance at the .j. Illinois relays, get- j ting to the tape first .j. ahead of such a field X as Uraily of Kansas, .j. champion of the Mis X soari valley; Bracev of Pice institute and X Simpson of Ohio U y j Jack ran his great y c est race in the 100 y season Jack equaled Jack Eder- length at Drake, X the world mark for ' when, bucking a still X y the sixty-yard route six times, four X times in meets and twice In prac- y tice. He holds the unique distif.c- ,, tion of covering the distance twice y in the same (iay, when, at the Cen- !j! tral Intercollegiate meet held at Notre Dame, he finished the semi- j. finals and the finals- in :00.2 time. Elder Is the first man to equal the X . wind, he negotiated the distance In v 10 seconds tlat to finish four feet .j. ahead of Hester of Michigan. In t he X preliminaries he breasted the tape .j. in :09.8. Under similar running cod X ditions, with a strong wind facing .j. him, the Kentucky thoroughbred X took the century event at the y Kansas relavs in the same time. X |