Facts:   - sport: sprinting    - event: 100m , 200m    - death place: delray beach , florida , united states    - weight: 134 lb -lrb- 61 kg -rrb-    - caption: jackson scholz at the 1928 olympics    - height: 5 ft 8 in -lrb- 1.72 m -rrb-    - death date: 26 october 1986      - club: nyac , new york    - medaltemplates: men 's athletics    - birth date: 15 march 1897    - name: jackson scholz    - nationality: american    - image: jackson scholz 1928b.jpg    - birth place: buchanan , michigan , united states   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jackson scholz .
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jackson volney scholz -lrb- march 15 , 1897 -- october 26 , 1986 -rrb- was an american sprint runner .in the 1920s , he became the first person to appear in an olympic sprint final in three different olympic games .after his athletic career , he also gained fame as a writer .