The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
AMERICANS PROTEST
SWIMMING DECISION
Dissatisfied With DisquGlifi-
cation of kdhanGm0ku.

ANTWERP, Aug 24--In the Olympic
aquatic events here to-day Duke Kaha-
namOku OF Honolulu won the nnal OF the
100 meter free stroke swim, finishing In
minute 2-5 seconds and beating his
new records. On complaint by Harald,
Australia, who finished NTH, that he was
pocketed by KahRnamoku and Norman
Ross the judges decided that the final
ST ould be swum again on Sunday
Tho Amt rlcans present registered their
dissatisfaction-oy this decision. Kaha-
ramoku's record will stand. P.~kealeha.
Honolulu, finished second In the race.
with w. w Harris, Jr.. Honolulu, third
and Ross fourth.
In the semi final OF the 400 meters
breast stroke swimming event j. Howell
CT Oakland, Cal, finished third and quail.
fled for the hnal. VI. j. McDermott or
the United States Navy. failed to qualify.
IN the / 800 meters free stroke semi
finals. Norman Ross. Illinois A. c., won
the hrSt heat in 20 minutes 2-5 sec
onds f. X. Kahele, United States Navy.
was second, and L. T. Bo!den, Illinois
A. C.. third All the Americans quail
fed for the final heat.
The American water polo team de-
feated the Greek team by goals TO o.
England defeated Spain BY goals to 0.
In the boxing bouts tonight Egan,
heavyweight. Yale University. and
champion OF the American Expedition
airy Forces Samuel Mosberg Of the Pas
time a. c., New York. a lightweight, and
+. dc Genero of the Paulist A. c., New
York, a flyweight. won their bouts and
reached the finals In the boxing cham
Nionships.
They were the oply survivors Of the
iirtC' Americans entered for the worlds
amateur championships. Although there
was no doubt as to who were the victors
In the bouts tonight, all the Americans
had hard fighting. The bouts consisted
OF three rounds, each OF three minutes.
De Genero's fight, which was with the
Danish bantamweight champion Peter
sen, who had trained down to fyweight,
vas the llvelest OF the finals, and
brought ringing cheers from the Amerl-
cans who thronged the packed audito-
rum. Eagen's opponent the Norwegian,
Sorsdal. avoided taking the count only
BY repeatedly clinchlng In the last round
Mosberg beat Johansen. q Dane.
Rawson, tine English heavyweight,
scored the only knockout Of the night
when he defeated Petersen Of Denmark.
In the bantamweight class Walker,
SOuth Africa. defeated Graham. Cana
dian, while the French featherwelght.
Fritech. beat Gauchet, the Frenchman
who won from ]. Civic Of Pittsburg on
Monday night.
The Canadian welterweight, Schneider,
defeated Ireland of England, while the
English middleweight, Mallon, won from
Prudhomme OF Canada.
In the final rounds for the Olympic
clay court tennis championships the re-
suits were:
Mems singles-Raymond OF South Africa
defeated Kumagae. Japan, 81, e., 20.
6-4.
MEMS Doubles-.Turnbull and woosman.
England. defeated Kumagae and Rashio,
Japan. 60. 81. 7-5. Is.
Women's Singles-Mlle. Lenglen, France,
won from Miss Holman. England. 6--3, SO
Womens' Doubles-Mrs. MacNAir and Miss
England. defeated Mrs. Beamish
and Miss Holman. England, 80, e.,
Mixed Doubles-Mlle. Lehglen and NJ. De-
cugis, France, defeated Miss McKane and
Mr. Woodman, England, e., 60.