ATHLETIC TRY OUTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 9

ATHLETIC TRY OUTS

AMERICAN PERFORMANCES

, The track and field contests at Palo Alto,. California, referred to in a cablegram in yesterday's "Post," are the final try-outs of an exhaustive series of tests that have been held throughout the United States in connection" with the selection of American representatives for the Olympic Games, opening at Los Angeles on 30th July. <

\Villiam Carr, who, it was stated; ran 400 metres in 46.95 ec, caused* a sensation recently by defeating Ben Eastman, of Stanford University, over the same distance. Eastman has registered some wondertul performances, over both the' quar-ter-mile and half-mile distances • this season. Within a fortnight he broke tho accepted world's recoid for the two distances. No mention was made of Eastman in yesterday's cablegram, although the positiqn might be that he intends concentrating, on the 800 metrps »vent.J Carr is a new man, and,-after his defeat of Jiastrnan, he-was hailed as the probable' winner at-the Olympic Games of the 400 metres. 'Eddie Tolan and George Simpson, second and third in the 100 metres try-out, aro both well known. Tolan, a negro, is i tne holder ,of the accepted 100 yards world s record,' and Simpson was in New .Zealand, last year. , The winner Ralph ALetealt, - also a negro, has only recently con\e to the front, but he has done so in a sensational manner. At the American national collegiate track and field meeting m'Chicago last month, Metcalf, who is. a student at Marquette University,, did better than the-world'i record for 100 metres, 220 yards, and 200 metres/and equalled the 100. yards record. His performances were Tated as among the most sensational in track history, , and were r>i r a» \,° ,8 r,catf st Achievement since Charlie Paddock broke the world's records for-100 yards and 220 yards in one afternoon in 1021 Metcalf is 22 years of a ? e and is powerfully built. He weighs nearly 13-atone and stands Sft liin. '