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...annual American Amateur Athletic Union championships, a meet called the "Little Olympics" because the 350 included almost all the runners, jumpers and weight throwers who will foregather again in the final Olympic trials at Los Angeles next year. Among them were: Frank Wykoff, Los Angeles sprinter, who was recovering from a horse-kick during last year's championships, who has unofficially surpassed the world's record for 100 yd. (9.5 sec.), who has not been beaten in four major meets this year; Patrick J. McDonald. 52-year-old, 350-lb. Manhattan policeman who handles a 35-lb. weight...
...California and set a new intercollegiate record by throwing the javelin 220 ft. 11? in. No one else could do 200 ft. Stanford's Jones won the discus throw without much trouble, with a Southern Californian second and Henri Laborde of Stanford third. Eddie Tolan, Michigan's little Negro sprinter who holds the official world record (9.5 sec.) for the distance, was entered in the 100-yd. dash, but Frank Wykoff of Southern California, whose unofficial record is 9.4 sec., beat him in 9.6 sec., the new intercollegiate record. Tolan won the 220, in which Wykoff was not entered presumably...
...return to the Dartmouth camp of R. E. Lee, discus and javelin thrower, and of George Stevens, sprinter, both of whom missed the Dartmouth-Brown-Columbia meet has greatly strengthened the Green team's chances for success on Saturday...
Bobby Jones's first picture, The Putter, was released by Warner last week. With Golfing Actors Richard Barthelmess and Frank Craven, Jones explains how to putt. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will make other sport shorts, including one of track games featuring Frank Wykoff, famed sprinter. To Helen Wills Moody has been offered, it is rumored, a $150,000 contract...
Wood one of four champions to be crowned at the meet finished ahead of Leedy of Yale, winner in the Harvard Yale meet with a time of 4 min., 58 3-5 sec., and ahead of his team mate Osborne. The Crimson sprinter's time 5 min., 4 sec., was not a record one Yale with eight men qualified for the finals failed to win any event...