Olympic Sprint Hope
On the basis of Miss McKean’s
achievement in winning the Na
tional A. A U. championship 100
meter swim at New York for the
Sbcond s time this year, her Settle
followers look for the girl to be
America's sprint hope In the wom
en's division of the 1935 Olympics.
The repeat victory may have been
a surprise to eastern experts but
to her coach. Ray Daughters. It
was a cinch. The day before . she
completed In the finals, Daughter^
wired home that Olive would win
—and he has always believed she
will be the Nq. 1 sprint performer
at the next Olympics.
Ill At Indoor Meet
Many of the experts tagged th^
girl as a "flash" and predicted she
was "through” when £he tailed
to place In the preliminaries of the
National Indoor meet at Detroit
early in the year, but her coach
explained later that she had been
in.
Daughters admits he has little
hope of Miss McKean bettering
Helene's Olympic record of 1 min
ute 6.8 seconds but he figures she
will be fast enough to save the
title for Seattle. At the National
Outdoor, Olive won in 1:10.2!
*
THREE SOVIET
FLIERS ARE 0N
(OoBtbmpcj (Tutu riaite One)
ming perfectly and the three
aviators in great spirits.
The giant ship rose easily
for ‘the take - off yesterday
afternoon a. f t e r traversing
three quarters of a mile of
the long rtihway.
Emergency Supplies
Aboard the plane are con
centrated foods and fur gar
ments ih case a forced land
ing is made in the Arctic
■ Wastes.
