The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-23
'OLYMP
RE RECORDS
broken
Several New Marks Set at Ant
werp Including One
Made by Ameri-
cans.
BOXING AND SWIMMING
Duke kananomoku Breaks Own World
Record in One Hundred Meter
Dash Through
Water.
BOXING AND SWIMMING
tBy Henry L. Farrell, United Press
Staff CnrreSnondent

! by Henry L. Farrell, United Press
Staff Correspondent.
| ANTWERP, Aug. 23.-Boxing and
swimming came into the foreground
at the Olympic games today.
The marathon, climax OF the track
and field events, was won by Hannes,
Kohlemainen, Finland, in the new
worlds record time of 2:32:35 40.
/ iLossman, of Esthonia was second, only
thirteen seconds behind the winner.
Organ, Under and Mellor, for Amerl-
: ca, finished seventh, eleventh and
! twelfth in the order named.
IS In the swimming g e1ents- Duke ,vkah-
anomoku brike his own world record
! in the hundred meter dash preliminary
! in 1:O1 As. His previous record was
1902 2-5. -.
| In the plain high diving heats all
Americans were eliminated ....
! McDermott and Quimby qualified in
! the four hundred meters breast stroke
! trials. In the first heat of the hun
dred meters, Kegeris was first and
Kruger second The second neat
went to Kealaha, with McGilliVray
! third.
! The first heat of the 1900 meters
swim was won by Vernot, OF Canada
with Bolden, America second, LANCER
America also qualified by winning the
second heat
! In the middle weight class of box
/ ing. Goldberg, America, beat Scham-
mong. of Denmark and Witacher peat
Wells, of Belgium.
! prudhomme, of Canada, defeated
Mason, of Belgium, and Mallin OF
England beat Cranston, America.
herewith, of Canada, beat hunting,
of Holland, and Lagonia beat jacob
| sen. of Norway.
Among the feather weights Walker
of South Africa beat Hartman, Ameri-
"a while Graham, of Canada, Knocked
ont Richard of France, in the first
ro,nd Hebrants Of Belgium beat
Herschman.
At fly weight, Peterson of Den
MARK heat Ziyac, America, while Dig
innero defeated Rampignon OF France.
The American four hundred meter
relay team set new worlds record,
making the distance in AZ Is seconds.
Americas premier sprinters, Paddock,
Scbolz. Murchison and Kirksey, car
ried the baton for the United States.
Americans Finish Fourth.
ANTWERP, Aug. 23.-England won
the 16OO-meter relay race today, the
American team finishing fourth.
The English teams time was 3
minutes % Is seconds, compared
with 3 minutes, 16 S-5 seconds made
bv the American team in Stockholm
in 1912.
South Africa finished second. France
third. Sweden fifth, and Belgium
sixth.
The American team was composed
Of G. S. Schiller, Los Angeles A. G.;
I c. Meredith, New York A. c.; G. s.
Bretnall Cornell, and +. j. Shea,
navy.
Finland won the final of the 10000
meter cross country run, with Eng
land second and Sweden third. Gull
lemot the sensational French runner,
who was the favorite, turned his
ankle after doing four kilometers and
was forced to withdraw.
The American team finished fourth,
France fifth and Belgium sixth.
America Far in Lead.
ANTWERP, Aug. 23-The official
score of the 1920 Olympiad at the
conclusion of the track and field
events today was announced as fol-
lows: .- ....s
America 210; Finland 95; Sweden
90. England so; France 33: Italy 20;
South Africa %; Canada 15; Norway
II. Esthonia 10; Belgium 8; Den
mark 8; New Zealand 5; Australia 1;
Luxembourg 1.
The democratic city executive com
mittee of Atlantic has decided to per-
nit women to vote in the coming city