Athletics of To-Day 1929

332 Athletics of To-day In these two years, incidentally, the German "best ten" standard rose from 43 to 47 ft. Early in I928 Hermann Brix, hitherto not likely to be con– sidered for the American team, beat 50ft. In Germany Uebler came right into the picture, and Hirschfeld suddenly found his form. No sooner had Kuck broken world's record than Hirschfeld bettered it at Dusseldorf with a put of SIft. 9! ins., and later did SI ft. 3l 1 ins. At Amsterdam, needless to say, I watched the performances of this big bunch of world beaters with the keenest interest. Wahlstedt and Uebler both equalled 48 ft. zi ins. exactly, while Brix, with his very first heave, tossed out the I6 lb. shot to a new Olympic record of SI ft. 8 ins., thus displacing Pat McDonald's sixteen-year-old figures, while his fellow American, Eric Krenz, did 49 ft. 2 ins. Hirschfeld reached SI ft. 6i ins. at his third attempt, and Kuck, at his second attempt, took the world's record up to 52 ft. o} 1 in., but even more wonderful, perhaps, is the fact that in not one of his six puts did Kuck do less than so ft. Three weeks later at the big match in London the Americans beat the British Empire soundly with an aggregate of I4S ft. II ins. (H. Brix, 49ft. 6 ins., J. Kuck, 49ft. 4! ins., and H. P. Rothert, 47ft. oi in.) to the Empire's I2S ft. 8 ins. (R. S. Woods, G.B., 42 ft. 8 ins., H. Hart, S. Africa, 42 ft., and R. L. How– land, G.B., 4I ft.). R. L. Howland I believe to be one of Britain's big hopes for the future; he is young enough yet, dead keen, and has the height and build for the game. Before Howland went up to Cambridge from Shrewsbury, H. M. Austin, an Australian, had eclipsed Woods's Freshmen's record by achieving 36ft. II ins., while Howland in his first sports at Fermer's accomplished 3S ft. I in. After that he won the Oxford and Cambridge event from I926 to I928, doing 40 ft. 4 ins., 42ft. 2 ins., and 42 ft. IO ins., and holds the new Fenner's Ground record at 44ft. IO ins. (I928). There is also great hope for R. M. . Tisdall, also of Shrewsbury, who in I928 made a new ambridge Freshmen's record of 38ft. 4! ins., and has since beaten 40ft. He had no style at