Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-18
AMERICA LEADS
IN OLYMPIC GAMES
Six Events Completed, and United
States Athletes Far Ahead
in Scoring.
by Associated Press to Every Evening

BY Associated Press to Every Evening
Olympic Stadium. Antwerp, Aug. 49,
The progress of athletic advancement
throughout the world was demonstrated
yesterday bv the wide distribution of
honors in the third days contests in the
seven'' ')lympiad.
For the first time i'm these garnes the
American athletes failed 10 win one Of the
six point scoring places when all -four
who qualified for the 5,0O0-metre race
failed to finish In all the other finals and
qualifying rounds today, however, the
Americans were placed, in several cases
after sensational performances against the
strongest foreign competition.
r. w Landon Of the New York A. G.
won the high jump with a new Olympic
record Of .9312 metres, although it was
announced he had made | .94 metres until
sag OF the bar was remeasured. Three
other Americans were placed in this event.
In the elimination for finalists in the
shot put and broad jump, two Americans
qualified in each event, although iegti-
mate hard luck interfered with their per-
formances in the latter event. The shot
putters. misunderstanding the French
officials put the shot long time before
discovering II was just warm-,ip and
the practice. In the broad Jump the
Negro, Sol Butler, Of Dubuque College.
the American record holder, pulled a
tendon in his second Jump and was un-
able to qualify.
Three Americans also qualified for the
finals in the ll0-metres hurdles, in which
one Of them is expected TO run second, as
Earl Thomson, representing Canada, is
acknowledged the best in the field, unless
one Of the Americans rises TO unexpected
heights and noses out the Canadian star.
The most sensational and pleasing
performance of the day was that of the
half-mllers in the S00-metres final, which
Earl Eby, Of the Chicago A. A., almost
won and IN which Lieutenant ID M Scott,
L. S. A., and A. b. Sprott. Of the Los
Angelo A. c., finished fifth and sixt
a,ter terrific race. A. G. Hill, Of Eng
land, won by yard due parity to the
fact that Eby was watching the expected
winner of the race, B. G. d. Rudd, of
South AFRICA, who faltered at the tape
whi.e Hill slipped through unobqerved
The Americans admitted Rudd was
not quite in his best form, although be
was game to the finish, colIapsing as did
Thomas Campbell, of Yale University,
and furnishing a most sensational climax.
The latter's condition was serious for
few minutes, due 10 muscle and heart
spasms, but he was all right later when he
arrived at the school where the Americans
are quartcred
The American tug-of-war team was
quickly outpulled by their English OPP
ponents, but has a chance for re-entrv in
case England wins under the rule which
permits all teams defeated by the winner
to compete for second place.
Six events of the II listed under the
head of athletics have been completed in
the Olympic games, and If the United
States keeps scoring as it is scoring Just
now 1t will gain the biggest triumph In the
history Of the revival OF the classic com
petitions. The athletes from America
have scored 90 polnts--more than twice
as many as those from Finland, who are
second with 81
England has done very well and has
scored II points to gain third place.
Sweden, the disappointment of the games,
Is fourth with 1313, and France Is fifth
with u. South Americans have scored 4,
Esthonia ?, and Norway |.
The six events which have been COM
pletcd and the winning nations are:
Running jump, America; 400 meter
hurdles, America; 100-meter dash Amer
lea, S00-meter run, England; 5,00O-me ter
run, France: Pentathlon, Finland.