Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
.LAND0N, YANKEE,
JUMPS TO RECORD
IN OLYMPIC Event
Yankees Fail in 5000. Meter
Run, But Score in Other
Competitions.
By the Associated Press.


OLYMPIC STADIUM. Antwerp, Au-
gust 17.-R. w. Landon of the New
York o. c. won the final in the high
jump of the Olympic games here to-
day. anu in so doing established a
new Olympic record. Landon's jump
was 1.94 meters (6 feet 31s inches). The
world record for this jump is feet
Z 5-16 inches, made by E. Beeson, al
Berkeley, May 2, 1914. The Olympic
record of 1.93 meters. was made by A.
w. Richardson. U. S. A, in Stockholm,
in 1912.
King Albert at Stadium.
Just as Landon's victory was an
nounced and the band was playing
The Star Spangled Banner" Albert,
King of the Belgians, entered the
anthem was ended. The king flew
over from Brussels by airplane. Three
hundred American Boy Scouts, here
on their way home, gave King AL
bert a special cheer.
Ekelund of Sweden and H. B. Null
Ter of the Olympic Club, San Francis
co, were tied for second place in the
high jump, at 100 meters. John MUIR
ply of the Multnomah A. A. c. of
Portland, Walter Whalen of the Bos-
ton A. c. and B. Howard Baker of
Great Britain were tied for fourth
place, with jumps of 1.s5 meters.
5,OOO-Meter Run to GufllemOt.
The final of the 5,000-meter run was
won by Guillemot of France. Nurmi
of Finland was second. Backman of
Sweden third, Koskeniemie of Finland
fourth, C. E. Blewitt, England, fifth,
and w. r. Seagrove, England, sixth.
All the American entrants dropped out
before one-third of the race had been
run. The winners time was IA minute S
55 seconds.
America defeated England in fencing
with foils, taking third place in that
classification. Each team won eight
bouts, but the Americans scored 80
touches against 81 for England.
American Second in Tug-of-War.
In the first round of the tug-of-war
the British team was first and the
American team second.
All four American entrants in the
110-meter hurdles event won their
heats, H. Z. Barron of the Meadow
brook Club, Philadelphia, who won the
second heat, made the best time, Is 1-5
seconds. Barron just beat Earl Thorn
son, Dartmouth College star, who rep
resents Canada.
Reach Hurdle Semi-Finals.
The following qualified for the semi
finals in the 110-meter hurdles: Col
bacchini. Italy; Orfidan. France; H. E.
Barron, Meadowbrook Club, Philadel-
phia; Earl Thompson. Canada; Fred
Murray, New York A. c.; G. H. Gray,
England; Thorsen. Denmark; w. l..
Hunter, England; William J. Yount, Los
Angeles A. c.; Hultin, Sweden; Walker
Smith, Chicago A. A, and Carl Chris
tierSSen, Sweden.
Butler Pulls Tendon in~Jump.
The heat qualifying for the final of
the broad jump resulted as follows:
Peterson. Sweden, first. distance 6.94
6.S6 meters; c. E. Johnson, University
of Michigan, third, $50 meters; Frank
son, Sweden, fourth, 6.73 meters: r. l..
Leland Stanford University.
fifth, SGT meters; Aastad, Norway, sixth,
$50 meters. Sol Butler. Dubuque Col
lege. with $50 meters. pulled tendon
on the first jump and failed to qualify,
as did ]. w. Merchant of the Olympic
Club, San Francisco, with $50 meters.
Mcdonald Second in Qualifying.
Qualifying heat in the shot-put re-
suited: Nicklander, Finland, first,
distance 14.155 meters; P. ]. McDon-
aid New York A. c., second. 14oS
meters; Porkola, Finland, third, 14.O35
meters; P. B. Liversedge, U. S. NJ.
fourth, 1915 meters; Nilsson. Sweden,
fifth, 1875 meters. and Jammer. Es-
thonia. sixth, 1850 meters II. c.
Cam, New York A. c.. with 1882 me-
ters, and George H. Bihlman, Olympic
Club, San Francisco. with 1855 me-
ters, failed to qualify.
1O,OOO-Meter Walking Heats.
The first qualifying heat in the
II, ,0O0-meter walk was won by Fri
gerio of Italy. J. B. Pearman, New
York A. c., was second; Parker of
third; Paresi of Italy,
fourth; c. E. J. Gum of England.
fifth. and Segers of Belgium. sixth.
w. J. Rolker of the New York A. C.
was seventh. being shut out, as only
the six qualify.
The second qualifying heat in the
1O,O0O-meter walk resulted: Hehir,
England, first: McMaster. South Afri-
ca. second: T. A. Maroney, st. An
seim's A. c., New York, third; Will
liam Plant. Morningside A. c., New
York fourth: ss Melendez. I; Spain. NTH, a1in
ner's time was 81 minutes "a 3-5 sec
onds. L-..----.-.---