OLYMPIC TRIALS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 July 1932, Page 5

OLYMPIC TRIALS

RECORDS BROKEN. NEW YORK, Saturday. At Palo Alta, California, two world records were surpassed and another was equalled to-day in the American Olympic track field try-outs. Leo Sexton put the shot -12 feet S inches. John Anderson hurled the discus 165.54 ft., and Eddie Tolan equalled the record for 100 metres, doing it in 10.4 seconds. The trio -will probably represent the United States in the Olympic Games. The world’s record for the pole vault was twice surpassed by William Garrber, who cleared 14 feet 4 3-8 inches, bettering by over four inches the previous record. William Carr ran 400 metres in 46.9 seconds, compared "with tho previous world’s record of 47. Both are expected to represent tho United States in the respective events. Ralph Metcalf, Eddie Tolan and George Simpson qualified in the 100 metres, finishing in that order. The time was 10.6 sees. Joe MeCluskey broke the world’s 3000 metre steeplechase record. The time was 9min. 15.5 sec. In the final trials for the American women Olympic swimmers at Jones Beach, Long Island, two world’s records were broken. Helene Madison swam 400 metres in 5.32 2-5. Eleanor Holm did the 100 metres backstroke in 1.18 1-5, bettering the Mealing record by 2 2-ssec. The team selected on the basis of today’s trials is considered to be very strong. The leading members include Madison for both tho 400 and 100 metres, Holm the backstroke, Margaret Hoffman and Anno Govednik for the 200, and also a number of fancy divers.

At Cincinnati Clarence Crabbs’ performance in tbo 400 metres was a feature of the men’s Olympic swimming try-outs. The time, 4.56 2-5, bettered the existing Olympic ones. NEW ZEALANDERS TRAIN. LOS ANGELES, Saturday. Scarf had a work-out with Ray Steel, who on Monday will meet the world s professional wrestling champion, Jim Londos. Steel said Scarf is a promising and hard wrestler.

Ryan, the Australian swimmer, is improving, and Charlton’s arm and shoulder soreenss is still in evidence. Golding’s heel is not better, but he continues practising. The New Zealand rowers and athletes were filmed to-day practising. Miss Kench practised starting, but is still a little slow off the mark. STUDENT BREAKS RECORD. HAMILTON, Saturday. Bert Pearson, an IS-ycar-old school student, broke the Olympic 100 metres record in the. semi-final of the Canadian trials, taking 10 5-10secdr one-fifth of a second slower than P. Williams’s world record. Williams has received permission to go to Los Angeles without competing in the trials.