Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-23
FINN WINS MARATHON
AND BREAKS RECORD
Hamcs Kohlcmainen of New York
Chops -Four Minutes From
Former Mark.
by Associated Pres. % Every Evening

by Associated Press 20 Every Evening
Antwerp, Aug 23.--fIannes Koleh.
rnainen. reyidont Of New York city.
representing Finland and holder II several
! American distance records and champ
| ionships, yesterday won the seventh
/ Olympic marathon. He showed wonder
full endurance and covered the distance,
( 20 miles 3s5 yards, in the remarkable
| time Of 2 hours 81 minutes, IS 4-5 sec
opds. through mud and rain. This broke
| the old record by more than four minutes.
! The eight years since Kolebmsinen
| won three championships AZ the Stock
| holm Olympics seem 10 have increased.
/ rather than diminished his stamina and
/ speed. For almost the entire distance
+ Kolehmainen was closely attended by
/ Charles G,itsham, the South African
| who ran second in The marathon a 1912,
/ but he wore him down after n long shoulder
/ to shoulder duel well ahead Of the rest n
/ the field IN the latter part ~ the great
/ contest. The hard pace was too much fOr
/ Gitsban.. who fell back after a game
struggle 20 hold second, being passed
/ by Lsssman. the Esthonian. and many n
/ the others with the stadium almost IN
sight
The third, fourth, fifth and sixth men
10 finish and thus win points came IN
rapidly and in exceptionally good con-
/ dition. The first American % cross the
I line, Joe Organ, Of Pittsburg was seventh
/ less than nine minutes behind the win
ner.
Carl Ldnder. Of Quincy Mass. and
/ Charles MeIlor, of Chiago, were eleventh
and twelfth, while Arthur Roth, -
/. Alphonsus, the fourth American starter
gave out after fourteen and half miics
| The race was run IN an almost steady
| dowDpour Of rain; the air was raw and
cold
Arriving AZ the stadium both Kolehs
/ nnainen and Bossnnan finished strong.
7 then ran around the track together the
victor wearing a wreath of flowers and
the Finnish flag.
Aries, Of Italy, who finished third
was particularly active az the end n the
race. for he turned several hsndsprings
Al three runners were picked Up and hois'-
/ ed 10 the shoulders Of their admiring
/ couRtrymen.
Tatu Kolehnainen. a brother q the
marathon winner. came in q good tenth
! Tomoskoki. who captured fifth place. b. n
I well-known runner who lives N Quincy,
/ Mass, but, like the winner. he came home
to run for Finland on the eve % the
/ Olympics. as he IS not an American eltl-
! zerr
/ The Americans did exceilently earlier
1 in the track races, winning two relay
/ races and taking third and fifth m the
discus throw The four American sprinters,
/ Charles w. Paddock, Los Angeles; J. Y
! Scolz, University Of Missouri; Loren Muir
Gibson, New York, and NJ. NJ. Kirksey.
san Francisco, running in that order N
| the 400-meter relay, established new
world record. winning the event m - Is
seconds-two ffths Of a second faster
than the.time made by the German win
ners at Stockholm IN 1912.
Today's points, not including the
decathlon. were: Finland, 2l; Amer
lea. 20; Sweden, II; France. :; Eng
land, s; Italy, 8; Esthonia, 5; Denmark,
I 3: Belgium, 3; Luxembourg. /.
4 The total points thus far scored arc.
! America, 1919: Finland SO; England. Is.
/ Sweden, 20; France, %; Italy, 2e. The
other points are scattered, no one of the
/ twelve nations having as much IS twenty
/ points.
/ Extremely cold and rainy weather
I greeted the commencement Of the SWIM
/ ming Olympaia,
/ In the ]. 500 meters free style swim Ludy
I LANCER. Honolulu, and Z. T. Boiden.
/ Illinois A. c., qualified LANCER winning
/ hls heat in "a minutes . As seconds.
I In the 100 metres back stroke, r.
I hegeris, Los Angeles, Harold Kruger,
Honolulu, kaleha and Perry McGillivrsy.
I Illinois 4. c., qualified. In bis heat kale-
| ha, in addition TO breaking the Olympic
| record, smashed the worlds record. his
! time being one minute and Ia seconds.
/ Both Kegeris and Kruger also broke the
| Olympic record Of minute 20 as seconds
made by II. J. Gebner OF the American
] team in. Stockholm IN fQi1
In the 400 meter breast stroke NJ. ].
! McDermott, Illinois A. C., and G. :.
/ Quinby, L. ;. Navy, c. A. Swensen,
Los Angeles A. G. and F. A. Mullen. I
). Navy, failed 70 qualify IN plain high
diving in which one American VIII have
! chance to qualify in tomorrow heat.
I AMERICA BREAKS RELAY RECORD.
The Americans, while not scoring in
/ the marathon, continued 70 pile up their
/ total scores and tucked another record
/ under their belts when the relay tesm
/ walked away with the honors IN the 400
meter contest. The Yankee tesm was
! kcompOsed of c. W. Paddock, Of Los
/ Angeles; J. " Scholz. University of Mis-
+ sour, Loren Murchison, Of New York.
and NJ. NJ kirksey, Of the san Francisco
! Olympic Club Their time was ~ Is
seconds. America won BY eight yards
France took second place. With sweden
( third, and England. Denmark and LuNem-
burg finishing fourth, fifth and sixth
The old 400-meter relay mark Of 423
seconds was hung up by German teem
in 1912.
The Americans won the S.000-meter
/ team race, with Sweden second, the United
States third. France fourth, England nth
and the United States sixth.
H. H. Brown, Boston A. A., finished
( first for the American team. He was trsil-
/ ed by Brakeman, Of Sweden, while A. A.
7 Schardt, Chicago A. A., came IN close he
/ hind the Swede FOR third place. Ivan G.
/ Dresser, Of New York L. G., finished
sixth, being beaten by Burtin, Of France,
/ an Blewitt, of England.