The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-19
AMERICANS
SURE TO WIN
Unless Some Disaster Over
takes Their Whole
Olympic Team
HAVE SCORED 101
OUT OF 242 POINTS
Just a Fair Showing in Re-
naming Events Will
Give Them Victory


Antwerp, Aug. l9--Despite the un'
expected victories of European athletes
Yesterday in the shot putin gand broad
lump events, the American team went
into the fifth day of competition at the
Olympic stadium to-day with such a
lead that it seemed they were assured
Of victory, unless some disaster over
takes the entire team. With II events
finished, and only IA, including the
decathlon, the modern pentathlon and
the marathon remaining to be run, the
Americans have amassed total up to
date of l0l out of a possible 242 points,
The rest of the points are so widely
distributed that, even if the Americans
make only fair showing in the re.
manning events, they appear to have
great advantage over all opponents.
Mounts for the American team en-.
tered for equestrian events arrived here
yesterday from Coblenz, where the
United States team has been training,
and this morning began workouts at
the stadium.
American entrants for the marathon
race will probably be taken from the
schoolhouse, where the team is lodging,
to Ostend or the outskirts of Brussels
to-day, in order that they may secure
rest and quiet for the next two days
before entering the Olympic classic on
Sunday. Coaches consider the noise at
the schoolhouse and the enthusiasm of
winning teammates fresh from the
stadium to be not particularly produc-
tive of good training conditions for the
men in this event The Americans ran
FIVE miles at dusk last evening at the
stadium, and this will be their last
workout, except short walks, during
the next few days. They will return
on Sunday morning in time for the
race.
Norwegian oarsnen arrived late on
Wednesday and were out on the water
with an eight-oar, four-oar and dou-
ble.oared shells, while scullers were
also padding about. American, Swed-
ish and Norwegian oarsmen, now here,
will be joined to-day by an English
eight, consisting of five oxford and
three Cambridge sweep swingers, who
form a fast combination. This crew
has covered English Henley course of
one mile and $50 yards in seven min
utes l6 and three .fifths seconds. All the
crews will enter the community quart
ers completed to-day in a huge han
gar, which has been divided into pri-
vate sleeping rooms, with one COM
partment for all shells.
The regatta schedule calls for four
preliminary heats in each event on
August 81; two semi-finsls on August
2s, and the finals on Sunday, August
20 The entry list shows ~ eight.oared
crews, 10 four-oared, nine doubles and
IL singles.
American feneers have been elimi-
mated from the final contests in the in
dividual foils event, Major +. w. Hon
eycutt being the only American TO
progress as far as the semi-fnals.
America was also eliminated from the
lightweight wrestling competition last
night when George Metropolis of
Gary, Ind, was thrown in four min
utes by Frisenfeld of the Danish team.
Lieutenant H L. Szymanskf of the
United States army, wrestling in the
light heavyweight class, won the live
lest bout of the evening from Sirens
rud of Norway, the American being de-