New Britain herald., 1920-08-18
THOMPSON BREAKS
 RECORD IN HURDLES
Dartmouth College Man Does the
 11O Meters in IA 4-5 Seconds SHOT PUT WON BY FINLAND
Small Crowd Witnesses Events England Wins From Belgium Ryan Qualities in Hammer Throw Plant Strains Groin.

Antwerp. Aug. IS, (By Associated Press) Earl Thompson, the Dart mouth college star. who is represent ing Canada in the Olympic games to- day won the final heat of the no me- ter hurdles, hanging up a new worlds record of II 4-5 seconds. H. E. Bar ron of the Meadowbrook club, Phil adelphia. was second. and Fred H. Murray of the N. Y. A. C., third.
 Wilson of New Zealand was fourth; Walker Smith of the Chicago A. A, fifth and Carl Christensen of Swe- den. sixth. The old record for both Olympic and worlds was 15 seconds flat.
 For the first 50 yards Thompson. Barron and Murray took the hurdles abreast. Then Thompson began to draw away. He finished 1-2 yards ahead of Barron. with Murray, third by an inch. Wilson just nosed out Walker Smith. Christensen was poor last.
 At the finish of the race it was discovered the Belgian committee had not provided a Canadian flag to raise over the entrance tower so it was necessary to hoist the British flag.
 The final of the shot put was won by Pot Porkola of Finland, who put the 16 pound shot 14.S1 meters. Nix lander. Finland, was second. 14 15-1-2. H. R. Liversedge, U. S. navy, third, 14.15; P. J. Mcdonald, N. Y. A. C.. | fourth, 14.0s; Nilsson, Sweden, fifth, ] 1887; Hammer, Esthonia, sixth, with 1860 meters.
 L England beat Belgium in the tug l of war in 30 3-5 seconds.
 Patrick J. Ryan, Loughlun Lyceum | New York easily took first place in l the qualifying round of the 16 pound hammer throw today. His throw was I 52.S3 metres. B. Bennett, Chicago A. l A. was second with 4S.23 metres. Ryan appeared in the arena with ! baggy black trousers and coat over his throwing togs, looking like a huge | mountain even among the other big 1 fellows. As his turn came to throw he l would calmly toss off his coat, slip ] his suspenders down and step out Of l the trousers. swing few times and l heave the hammer far beyond most l of the others.
 l McGrath has a bad knee which he l strained in practice today and it is ! feared he may be forced to remain | out of the 56 pound weight event. | 1 Sweden, IS metres; Svensson. Sweden, 47.29 metres: M. J. McGrath, New l York A. c. 46.67; and N. Linde. Swe- | den ASS 1-2. J. NJ. McEachern, | Olympic club, San Francisco who l was seventh with 44.70 metres did | not qualify.
 The final heat of the 10000 metre 1 walk was won by Frigerio of Italy. J.
 B. Pearman of the New York A. c. | T
 third: McMaster South Africa fourth i;
 roney, g.. Anselms A. c. New York ! N. Y. sixth The winners time was
 AS minutes 6 1-5 seconds. In wrestling yesterday Leenden Of
 Belgium beat Rogers. United States;
 Szymanski. United States Navy out
 pointed Hunel, d Czech: Gallery.
 United States Navy. lost to Friman, a
 Finn: Willlkie, U. s. N. outpointed
 Struna. a Czech: Vores of Chicago
 lost to Kalkonen of Denmark; Metro
 poulis of Gary Ind. beat Vouyoukas 1 SIyigart, l.. s. x.
 l William Plant of tho Morningside
 A C. New York reported groin | strain today, which it is believed will
 put him out of further competition. Peterson of Sweden won the final
 of the broad jump with 7.15 meters l c. C. Johnson. University of Michi- | gan, was second with 7.O9 1-2 me- | ters; Abrahamsson of Sweden, third ] with 7.0S meters; R. l.. Templeton 1 Leland Stanford university, fourth
 with 6.96 meters: Asstad of Norway | fifth with 6.SS 1-2 meters and
 Franksson of Sweden sixth, with 6.67 | meters.
 Those who qualified for the 150C
 meter run were Fohelik of Czecho.
 Slovakia: A. c. Hill of England; Aud
 inet of France: Lundgren of Sweden;
 D. McPhee of England; M. l.. Shields
 Meadowbrook club. Philadelphia
 John Sander of Sweden; Porro ot
 Italy: J. J. Connolly. Boston A. A.
 Joie w. Ray. Illinois A. C.; P J. Bak-
 CT of England and Wilhelmsen o1 l Esthonia The time of the best heal | was minutes 1-5 seconds
 The crowd again was small today
 and the Belgian officials were mucl
 disappointed. Count Henri de Bail.
 let-I-atour. president of the Belgian
 legislative Olympic committee said | 'The committee worked hard tc
 get the games for Antwerp in ordel
 to show the world what little Bel
 gium could do with sporting events
 We now find ourselves in the posi- | foreigners at the games than Bel i Gians. Even our press is not showing
 as much interest as the foreign cor
 respondents"
 Wilhelmsen who finished third ii
 the last heat was disqualified fo
 should ering another runner on tn, l turn. and Fourneau of Belgium, v<h'