August 4, 1936
Owens to Send Olympic Oaks to Favorite Schools in U.S.
The New York Times (AP)

(AP) Berlin, Aug. 4, 1936- Grounds keepers in three Ohio schools might as well look around for handy spots to plant some oak trees this fall- genuine Olympic oaks, presented with the compliment of Ohio's speediest son. Jesse Owens. One is going to the jonior high school in Cleveland, where Jesse Owens first found he had lightening in his legs. Another is bound for his Cleveland High School. Third at O.S.U. The third is destined to thrive in the big shady oval campus of Ohio State university, where he now goes to school when he isn't breaking records. One tree is already packed, ready for shipping, a reward for his victory in the Olympic 100 meters final. Owens confidently expected to collect the second today after the broad jump is finished and run up a couple of installments on the third in the 200 meters event. None of the 200,000 persons who have watched him perform in the last two days, however, would accuse him of over-confidence. He simply knows what he can do. "That's a grand feeling standing up there before all those people with the band playing the 'Star Spangled Banner' and everybody cheering. "I never felt like that before. I loved it and I'm going to stand up there two more times." Helen by Herself Two record-breaking performances in her first appearance on the heavy stadium track left Helen Stephens of Fulton, MO., in a class by herself in the 100 meters event. Stella Walsh appeared as the lone possibility to make Helen Hustle to win the first of several Olympic crowns she has in mind. While pleased with the fact their runners won first place in all three heats in the 800 meters run, the American camp was going slow on predictions about winning today's final. The general impression was that both Mario Lanzi of Italy, and Wladyslaw Kucharski of Poland, took things pretty easy in the preliminaries and kept plenty of reserve. "Both Woodruff (John Woodruff, Pitt freshman) and Hornbostel (Chuck Hornbostel, Evansville, Ind.) are going to have their hands full beating them," predicted Brutus Hamilton, the California coach.