OLYMPIC TESTS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 14

OLYMPIC TESTS

Try-out in Berlin New Zealand amateur athletes who are eager to secure a place in the team for the Olympic Games will be interested in the results of the ‘‘Little Olympic” held at Berlin recently. Sweden, Germany, Japan, Hungary and Italy were represented in a programme which embraced most of the Olympic events. Japan secured minor points in the 100 metres, 10,(100 metres, pole vault and hop. step and jump. According to the Japanese Athletic Federation, Japan will make its greatest bid for Olympic games supremacy with a team of 260 athletes. The Federation expects to spend £08,015 in transporting and equipping the Nipponese team. This is three times greater than the amount spent in sending representatives to Los Angeles for the Olympic Games in 1932. The increased appropriation was due, partly to the great athletic advance Japan has made, and partly to the Japanese determination to secure the Olympic Games for Tokio in 1940. Following are the respective winners of

Best American performances during 1935 are :— 100 metres, Eulace Peacock .... 10.2 200 metres, Ralph Metcalfe .... 21.0 400 metres, James Lu Valle .... 47 0 800 metres, E. Robinson 1.53.1 1500 metres, Glenn Cunningham 3.52.1 3000 metres, Veysey 8.41.i> 110 metres high hurdles, S. Klopstock 14.1 200 metres low hurdles, G. Har- . _ djn “3.4 400 metres hurdles, T. Moore .. oM High jump, C. Johnson .... 6ft. Bin. Broad jump. Jesse Owens .. 26ft Biin. Discus, Gordon Dunn 168 ft. lljin. Shotput, J. Torrance 54ft. sin. Javelin, Gongloff 221 ft. 3|in. Hop, Step and Jump, Romero 49ft. lOin. Pole vault, Keith Brown .... 14ft sJin.

the tests : — 100 metres, Suzuki (Japan) . 10.6 200 metres, Sir (Hungary) .. 21.4 400 metres, Von Wachenfeld (Sweden) 48.6 800 metres, Lauzi (Italy) .. .. 1.52.2 1500 metres. Beccali (Italy) .. 3.54.0 5000 metres, Johansson (Sweden) 14.56. J 10,000 metres, Murakota (Japan) 32.24.0 110 metres hurdles, ' Lidman (Sweden) ■ 14.8 400 metres hurdles, Kovacs (Hungary) 53.6 1600 relay, Sweden 3.14.2 400 metres relay, Germany .. 41.2 161b. shot. Woelke (Germany) 53ft. 2Jin. Discus, Anderson (Sweden) . 171ft. lin. Javelin, Stock (Germany) .. 232ft. Ilin. High jump, Weiuholtz (Germany) 6ft. 3in. Broad jump, Leichuin (Germany) 25ft. 3in. Pole vault, Nishida (Japan) 14ft. Sin. Hop. step and jump, Oshima (Japan) 50ft. 2in. Hammer throw', Jansson (Sweden) 170ft. lin. U.S.A. FEATS.