New Britain herald., 1920-08-24
DECIDE DECATHLON
 AGAINST AMERICAN
Olympic Officials Give Victory to
 Norwegian Over Hamilton

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 Aug. 2i-In so far the American parti- 1 cipation in the meet was concerned, the
 track and field section of the Olympic Games of 1920 went out in a blaze of glory yesterday afternoon. But in reality the | meet closed in about as dismal a setting as may be imagined. There. about 500 ] spectators in the dreary stands, and a cold | rain came down to make the field a morass 1 and chill the athletes to the marrow. It was the same old rain which has been the bane of the American athletes all week. Only the few accustomed to the fall rains | in the northwest of the United States found the conditions at all possible. | The meet closed with the official 'nouncement of the revised standing in the decathlon. This event finished last Friday, but owing to the closeness of the light between Captain Helge Loveland. of the Norwegian Army. and Brutus K. Ham, ilton, the American from the University of Missouri. the committee ordered a re-exam- inatton of the various score sheets. It was hoped the examination would favor the Yankee However. it did just the opposite.
 The new and official score gives the title ssoI355 points. This hardly compares with the score of s4l2.9s5 which Jim Thorpe. the Indian. made in winning the decathIon at Stockholm under the same scoring sys- tenn as was employed here
 Hamilton stin Second.
 Hamilton was second with cross points; Ohlsson. of Sweden. was placed third, with s57s.3o5; Holmer. of Sweden, fourth, with 65s3.15: Nelson, of Sweden fifth, with eist5s. and wickholm. of Finland, sixth. with s40e4s.
 country of nearly 10 kilometcrs was won by Nurmi Finland. in 27 minutes Is seconds; Bachman. Sweden. was second: Lpmatainen. Finland. third; J. Wilson, England. fourth; A. Hegarty. England. fifth, and Conquienoer, Italy. sixth.
 In the team cross-country run at the same distance, Finland. with 10 points. was nrst England with 21 points. second: sweden. with g points third; America with 3s points. fourth: France, with 40 points. fifth. and Belgium. with 50 points. sixth.
 Pat Flynn Is Eighth.
 or the Americans who entered the indi- New York. finished eighth. and Fred Faller. Dorchester Club. Boston, 14th. The other entries from the United states who ran were John C. simmons. New York A. C.; l.. G. Watson. of Syracuse: Robert Craw- | ford. Milrose A. A.. New York, and H. H. i Brown. Boston A. X.
 The 1,so0-meter relay race by | England. with South Africa second. France | third. America fourth and Sweden fifth.
 Sweden protested the race. declaring it started from a wrong point of the track. The Olympic committee turned down the protest
 The American team consisted of George dith. New York A. c: George & Bretnali | Cornell College. Iowa. and Frank J. Shea. United States Navy. The time of EngIand's winning team was minutes es 1-5 seconds
 Although the team is not considered as good as some of the other teams that have come to Europe fin the past to take part in l Olympic Games. the Americans rolled up a total of 2l2 points during the week of com | petitions figure more than twice as great that of the nearest rival nation, | Finland. with 105.
 Scoring on a basis of 22 points to any | event allowed by the International Athletic i Federation. the American team rolled up | approximately onc-third of a possible aggre- gate Of s3s. The Americans scored in all | but four events and were tied with Finland 1 for frst-placc championship honors, each | thation having won nine hrsts. The United l 'States was far ahead fin second places won. | with 12. and was second to Sweden in | thirds. having won to 10 for Sweden. The | Americans scored 10 fourths. twice many | their nearest rival l
 Warren Kealoha. Honolulu. won the hna1 in the 10O-meter back stroke. with 1 his teammate. R. Kegoris. Los Angeles | second. and tho Belgian Blitz. third. The | time minute 15 1-5 seconds. setting | a Olympic record. The old mark was l minute 2t l-5 seconds made by J. l. Heb A. c:. and Harold Kruger. Honolulu. fn- | ished, respectively. fourth and fifth
 United States Boxers Win.
 In the continustion Of the preliminaries ! in the boxing events yesterday fin the | xeatherweight class ]. zivio. Willow A. C., | nttsbuLgh, defeated Clausen Denmark. Tn sfhe lightweight class Samuel Mosberg. | Pasfne A c. won from Grace. England. | Newton. Canada. defeated saterhang. Nor | way. and Johansen. Denmark. won from | Frank Cassidy. American.
 In the midulewclgnt CLASS frnunonrne, Canada. won from Gollet. France; sam TsaEonIa. Bronxdalc X. C. was disqualified | for holding Msllin. England.
 In the wclterwcight class Schneider. | Canada. defeated Steen. Norway: wistatch- ! er American. defeated stockhtab Norway; | E. colberg. United States Army. won from | Gfllet.. France.
 Tn the light heavyweight class Edward 1 EEan Yale University. deteated Holstock. south Africa; soridal Norway. won from | scheII. American.
 Tn the heavyweight class Rawson. of art. United States Army. in the third | round: W SpengIer, New York Police. de- feated Creuscn. Belgium.
 Several Olympic swimming records were smashed yesterday. Three Americans Mrs Frances Schroth. Of San Francisco: Ethelda Bletbtrey. women's Swimming As- sociation Of New. York-chalked up new records in winning their heats of the 100 meters. free style.
 Duke Kahanamoku repeated his record breaking performance of Sunday by cover ing 100 meters, free style in 1 minute 2-5 seconds Pua Kesleha. Honolulu. tied the Olympic record when winning his heat in the same event.
 This makes a total of eight Olympic rec ords broken. one worlds record bettered and two Olympic records equalled by Amer leans in two days.
 Yesterday T.. Howell, San Francisco. won his heat fin the 4O0-meter breast stroke in minutes 5b seconds. In the 100 meters. free style. Kahanamoku and W. W. Harris. | ly. George Nernot. the Canadian. failed to qualify. Norman Ross. Illinois A. c, second to Kealeha in his heat of that event.
 In the 100 meters. free style. for women | Mrs. Schroth won the first heat fin. minute | IS seconds: Miss Charlotte Boyle. women's
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