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...gathered to compete in the 5 6th 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...
...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 because the Southern California coach, Dean Cromwell, is guarding him for the Olympic Games next year...
Coach Cromwell is baldheaded, expansive, slightly fussy. His charges are proud and pleased when he kisses them for winning a race, as last week he kissed Vic Williams. In such gestures as this? and the circumstance that young Runner Wykoff, as a reward for winning races, will ride a float in Los Angeles next week as ruler of a pre-Olympic pageant?are implied the true reason for Californian athletic supremacy?Enthusiasm...
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...
...yard dash--Won by Wykoff (S. C.): second, Tolan (Michigan): third, Dyer (Stanford); fourth, Giberson (Stanford): fifth, Mauser (S. C.) Time...