The Washington herald., 1920-08-22
u. S. PUTS CLNCH
ON OLYMPIC TITLE
WITH lS3 POINTS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

lack Of training. and the short time
for Ulrariou after landing.
severely handicapped the American
UIsLar.r runners. and that the uu-
precedentsd number Of accidents
had made the United States team
appear weaker than teams in the
past
While the Americans had first
p.a,~ in the track and neld events
CIIHnhei. Finland. Sweden and Eng
land were putting up great battle
for second position. The days points
..- ~.r..irI DIS follows. Amer
i.a 81 Sweden. 20: Finland. I6:
Italy. :. Australia. ., South Africa,
o.. @ t...-,la 8. England. l.
EnEIund Drops Back.
The good showing of Finland and
Sweden, together with England :
poor work Ior Jh- day. resulted in
tine rvp former passing the latter
in total points With twenty two
events completed tine leaders stood
thus tonight.
America. :. FINLAND. %, sweden.
= ENGLAND. 81. Italy. II
One Olympic record was shattered
today when FrIgrrIo. OF Italy. won
t1r s.uru-Wtipr walk in thirteen
minutes. fourteen and one-ffth sec
OnG~ In this event. Parker Of
Australia was second. L. +. Eemer.
of New York. third: McMasters. Of
South Africa. fourth; 7. A. Maroney,
OF New York. fifth; and Pavesi. Of
Italy. sixth The latter was dis
qualified and DOwson, of England.
given sixth place. making England 5
sole point for the day.
NoSed OUT in DccathIou.
Erutus Hamilton. of University
of Missouri who was leading when
half Of thc decathlon's ten events
were completed. was finally nosed
out by LoveIand, of Finland. The
Finn won the event with 6.774
points. OhIson. HoImer and MIL
sen. all Swedes. finished in that
order behind Hamilton. Wickholm,
Of Finland, was sixth
Pat Mcdonald, OF New York, came
through in throwing the 56-pOund
weight, winning with a toss Of
Il-264 meters. His fellow Pat Ryan.
Of New York, second. Lind, Of Swe-
den, third. Darmid. Of Canada,
fourth; SyensOn. Of Sweden, ffth,
and Peterson. of Finland. sixth.
The other final run off today was
the hop. step auT jump. Dan
Ahsarn. of Chlra-r. Tine record
holder. over who's tentative sus-
pension for alleged violation of
trainln- rules the entire American
team went on STRIKE just before the
games began. could not do better
than sixth place. The event was
won by TIm.us. Of Finland. with A
leap of li-5O5 meters. JaRnsun and
'AImlOf, of Sweden, were second and
third. respectively. sherman Lam
d-rs. Of Chicago, was fourth. and
Suh,in. Of Sweden. NTH
Place in 46e and 1000 Meters.
Americans placed in the trials Of
the 400 meter relay. 5000 meters
team race and discus throw today.
The Yank team took the first heat
Of the relay in A. seconds. with
Italy second and Spain third. The
second heat. also run in As secbnds.
resulted: France. first; England.
second, and Holland, third. Sweden n
won tho third heat in l5 %, with
Denmark second and South Africa
third.
France and America qualified in
the second heat Of the 5000 meters
team race by virtue of being the
only competitors.
The Frenchmans time was 9
minutes, l second. In the first heat
England was FIRST Sweden second
and Italy third. Belgium was elm
mated The time was SOL 4r5.
NickIander and TaipaIe. Of Fin
and. \. r Pope, University of
Washington; X. c. Bartlett, Univer-
Uty Of Oregon and ZalIhagen and
Erickson, Of Sweden, qualified in the
discus throw.
At the finish of today's events the
standing Of the nations was:
United States. IS5, Sweden. 70:
England. So: Finland, 66; South
Africa. "a; Italy. 81; France, 10:
Canada, 10; Norway, TO- Denmark.
;; New Zealand, 5; EsthOnia, g.:
-zechO SlOvakia, 3.
Have Learned Lesson.
One outstanding lesson has been
taught America by what has hap
pened here. We fell down pretty
hard in all races Of more than 200
meters. Those events were taken by