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...finals of the 200-metre dash next day, huge Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette University Negro, was favored to beat stubby little Eddie Tolan of Detroit, who had beaten him by two inches at 100 metres. Metcalfe started badly. At the head of the straightaway, 100 yd. from the finish, a white runner, George Simpson of Ohio, was in front. A yard behind him pounded Tolan. Behind Tolan was an Argentine, Carlos Bianchi-Luti, a stride ahead of Metcalfe. Tolan's horn-rimmed glasses were held on by white adhesive tape. He had a great white bandage at his left knee...
Granted to TIME of that date: the implication that the coast is superior; the East, excellent in track material. Not granted: the implication by omission that the Midwest is lacking in such talent (notwithstanding that tiny blurb about the fast-fading Eddie Tolan of Michigan...
...track coaches had been trying to pick an Olympic team last week, all these would have been on it. So would Eddie Tolan; Hurdler Percy Beard, who is a chemical engineering instructor at Alabama Polytechnical Institute; Hector Dyer, Bill Graber, Pen Hallowell. Coaches might have had sharp differences of opinion as to the rest of the team but there was one other name which they surely would have chosen-Benjamin Bangs Eastman...
...shoes. He is a "straight" runner (carries himself erect). Last week he ran the 220-yd. dash in 20.5 sec., beating R. A. Locke's 1926 world record of 20.6 sec. He ran the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the world record set by Negro Edward Tolan in 1929 and equalled since by Frank Wykoff and Emmett Toppino...
...when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years in a row and won it again last week; Eddie Tolan, Michigan's stubby Negro, and many another runner who has not yet been outrun by renown. The red track in Lincoln's municipal stadium was fast and hard the first breezy day, when the junior champion-ships-for athletes who have never won a championship-were contested...