Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-08-17
AMERICAN WINS
THE HIGH JUMP
R. W. Landon, of New York A.
C., Breaks Olympic Record
Today, at Antwerp.

OLYMPIC STADIUM, kEtwerp,
Aug. 17-R. w. Landon, OF the New
York A. c.. won the final in the high
jump of the Olympic games here to-
day and in so doing established a
new record of 1874 metres. The for
mer Olympic record was 1913 metres.
ANTWERP, Aug. 17-Today's s
Olympic events include first and Sec
ond heats in 10000 metre walk and
elimination events in the broad jump
and the shot put which were con-
tested this forenoon The afternoon
events include 110 metre hurdles,
the final in the broad Jump and the
final in the 5000 metre run.
Interest in today's events were
stimulated when it was announced
that King Albert would attend and
that American Boy Scouts would
cheer.
Finals to decide third place in the
foils competition In the Olympic
fencing bouts were also on the pro-
gram. American fencers yesterday
defeated Denmark by nine bouts to
seven, but lost to France. Italy
took first place in the foils by de-
feating France. France thus Win
ming second place.
In the Greeco-Roman wrestling
preliminaries yesterday. Swigart of
the u. N. navy threw Rangers.
Italian, with a double arm bar after
three minutes of wrestling. The
Italian kissed the American at the
conclusion OF the match, and Swi-
CART returned the salute.
The crew of The Tinted States
Naval academy continued practice
morning and afternoon. and these
workouts never fail to attract the
Belgians, who watch the rowing, one
sport in which the townspeople have
long been acquainted with. The ylgor
ana -snap~of- the young men impress
them greatly.
The Americans complain that the
water in the canal Is dead and heavy.
but nevertheless they make better
time than they did at Worchester,
when they won the 1000 metre try
out.
The heat qualifying for the finals
of the broad jump resulted as fol-
lows: Peterson, Sweden, first;
Sweden, second: C. e.
johnson, University of Michigan;
third: Frankson, Sweden, fourth;
Templeton, Stanford University,
fifth: Aastad, Norway. sixth.
Qualifying heats in the shotput
resulted, Nikalander, Finland, first:
T. j. Mcdonald. N. YEA. c., second;
Porkola, Finland. third; H. H. Liv-
ersedge, u. s. Navy, fourth; Nilson.
Sweden, fifth; Jammer, Esthonia,
America defeated England in
fencing with foils. the Americans
winning third place. Each team,
won one bout, but the Americans
scored thirty-two.
All four American entrants in the
10 metre hurdles won their heats
in the field of twenty-stx starters
today. Barron. of the Meadowbrook
Club, Philadelphia, won the second
heat in Is LIS seconds. Barron just
beat Thomson, the Dartmouth Col
lege star who represented Canada,
the latter topped two hurdles losing
his stride, but he finished strong.
The field outside Of the Americans
and Thomson was mediocre.
Dispute 100 Metre Race.
The finish in the 100 metre race
Of yesterday was still the subject of
dispute. The French have filed q
protest over the start, SO a meeting
of the teams was called for this
afternoon to consider the question.
and expect picture of the Swedish
athletic team. Some of the photo-
graphs show Scholz. the American,
away mead of Alikhan, the French
man, who was placed fourth while
shouts were declared to have been
heard.
An official order has been given to
place Scholz fourth. but the an
nouncer and the scoreboard scored
him fifth.