Reprint of the above (Boston?) Post - 7-07-08

WONDER BOY WINS SPRINT

Wykoff, 18-Year-Old Californian, Equals World's 100-Metre Record of 10 3-5 Four Times  Paddock Shut Out

McAllister Second, Russell Third, Bracey Fourth

THE FINISH OF THE 100 METER RACE AT THE STADIUM

"Frank Wykoff, sensational schoolboy printer from California, was the winner of the greatest sprint race in the history of American track sports.  The final dash of 100 meters at the Olympic final trials at the Stadium yesterday.  The "Flying Cop," Bob McAlister of New York, was second.  Hank Russell, third.  Claude Bracey, celebrated "Dixie Flier," fourth.  Jimmy Quinn of Holy Cross, fifth, and Jackson Scholz, 31-year old veteran, sixth."

(Photo by Jack Williams, Post Staff Photographer.)

BY ROGER BIRTWELL

"An 18-year-old California schoolboy -- just a slip of a lad -- yesterday became the king of the sprinters of the world.

"Facing the greatest field of sprinters that has ever been gathered on a single track, in a race in which Olympic champions and world's record holders were unable even to place, Frank Wykoff, 18-year-old Glendale Cal, high schoolboy, raced his way down a sodden track, to beat the pick of the runners of the world at 100 metres in the record-equaling time of 10-35 seconds.

"It was the greatest sprint race ever run -- possibly the greatest that ever will be run.  The Olympic record of 10 3-5 seconds, which had been achieved only twice in 32 years of Olympic competition, was equalled four times on a soggy track in a single afternoon, and some of the greatest runners that the world has ever seen were shut out in the preliminary heats..."