The sun., 1919-06-26
CLEAN SWEEP FOR
YANKEE FINALISTS
America Is One, Two and
Three in Both Finals in In
terallied Games.

PERsHING STADIUM, JoINvILLE lie PoNf.
France. Tuesday juno 24.-The first
two finals in the Inter-Allied ATHLETIC
meet to-day resulted In clean sweeps for
Uncle Sammy's boys. Old Glory was
raised to the top OF the pole six times,
denoting first, second and third places
in each OF the two events. The score
at the end OF to-day's competition was:
United States ~. all other nations 0.
Fred Thompson, the former amateur
all around champion of the United
States, won the final of the hand gre
| made throwing contest with Sam
Thomson second and ID. c. Wyckavage.
third. In the finals of the javelin throw
George Brender OF the New York A C.
captured first laurels, with Harry Liver
sedge, the California collegian, second
and ]. T. Butler third
Three of the six men who will start In
the 109 meter finals and three Of the
ten men who will answer the call TO post
| in the final OF the 1900 meter run are
Americans The semi-hnal heats in both
| events were held to-day and YankeeS
| were prominent In the scoring. Eddie
Teschner, the former Harvard Splinter,
| and Sol Butler, the Dubuque collegian,
| finished second and third respectively to
Lindsay OF New Zealand in the first
| semi final heat OF the 100 meter dash.
Paddock, the California colleglan, won
| the second semi-final, with Howard or
| Canada and Caste OF France trailing
Both heats were won In IL seconds.
stout n winner.
In the two trial heats, fret Ave men
| in each to run in the final Of the 1900
meter run, Shields, the Penn collegiaB,
| finished second to Mason OF New Zea-
land In the first heat in 4:10 2-5 and
Clyde Stout OF the Chicago University
| won the SECOND heat in I :16.
| Americans also were much to the fore
in the trial heats OF the 10 meter hur-
| dies and the 400 meter dash. Bob Simp-
son. the former Missouri collegian. ana
| Fred Kelly Of the New York A. G. won
| their heats in the 10 meter hurdles ana
I w b. Ames, the Illinois collegtan, mn
ished second In one of the heats. Tesch-
ner, Paddock and Haddock of America
| qualified in the 200 meter dash.
| In the bantam weight preliminaffes
| of the boxing, Wigger Evans OF Aus
ltralia won decision over Johnny tBaee)
Asher OF Detroit In a ten round bout.
II was a good, hard fight throughout.
with Evans growing stronger toward
the end. Asher Is the A. Z. r. champion
lin his class. Evans is said by tho
ringsider experts to have the best chance
| of winning the bantam weight honorA
McGrath of Canada was awarded the
decision over Pain OF Belgium In the
bantam weight class. McGrath forced
the fighting and Pain was on the DE-
fensive throughout.
Norton Beats Canadian.
| Al Norton of California previously
had won in the light heavy weight pre-
lliminaries from Herscovitz OF Canada-
1.-The Canadian was ut disadvantage
1 through the Americans longer reach
and greater height, but he fought pluck
lily throughout the ten rounds. II was
a stiff battle. followed closely by largo
1crowd OF American soldiers.
The first knockout went to Spalla OF
italy. who sent Van der Eynd Of Bel
GUM to the canvas for the count Of ten
In the second round, Hallam OF Aus
traiia gave a good exhibition, winning
from Cole Of Canada in the nrst feather
weight bout
| American wrestlers lost their first two
Graeco Roman wrestling bouts, Wee
gan. American, was thrown by Daily OF
Canada in 4 minutes 20 seconds. Polk.
American. wrestled Coolies OF Belgium
to a standst,ll for twenty minutes, when
the bout was stopped and an extra
4 period ordered by the referee. Coolies
then threw Polk with a rolling fall.