Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-08-17
Americans
WinVictof.iies
In 0lynnpiiad
High Jump Won by Ian
dom Show up Well in
Hurdle Heats French
Win Long Distance

olympic Stadium, Antwerp, Aug. II
An four American entrants in the
40 meter hurdles event of the seventh
0lynpiad won their heats in the fielc
Of "a starterst oday H.. e. Barron oi
me- Meadowbrook club, Philadelphia
who won the second heat, made the
hest time Is Is seconds.
Barron just beat Earl Thomson
dartmouth college star, who repre-
sents Canada Thomson toppled two
hurdles, losing his tsride, but he fin
inshed fast and strong. The field out
side Of the Americans and Thomson
was mediocre.
5000 Meter Run.
The final of the 5000 meters run
was won by Guillemot of France. Nur-
mi of Finland was second; Backman Of
sweden third; Koskeniemie of Finland
fourth; G. e. Blewitt England, fifth
and w. R. Seagrove, England, sixth
All the American entrants dropped out
before one-third the race had been
run. The winners time was IA minutes
SIS seconds.
In the first round of the tug of war
the British team was first and the
American team second. In the second
match, Holland defeated Italy.
Victory in the final heat of the 500
meters run today went to Great Brit
ain, A. G. Hill of the British team fin
ishing first ahead Of Earl Eby of the
Chicago A. A.
Iandon Wins High Jump.
R. W. Landon of the New York A.
G.. won the final in the high jump OF
the Olympic games heret oday ana ~
SO doing established a new Olympic
ers The former Olympic record. was
1893 meters
Ekelund of Sweden and Fl. B. Null
Ter Of the Olympic club, San Francisco,
were tied for second place at ITO me-
ters, John Murphy of the Multnomah
A. c, of Portland, Walter Whalen of
the Boston A. C. and B. Howard Baker
Of Great Britain were teid for fourth
place with jumps of 1.65 meters.
The heat qualifying for the final of
the broad jump resulted as follows:
Petersen, Sweden, first, distance
6s4 meters; Abrahamsson, Sweden,
tSS meters: c. e. Johnson, University
Of Michigan, third 6.82 meters; Frank.
son, Sweden, fourth, 6.73 meters; R.
L. Templeton Leland Stanford univer-
slty, fifth, 6.67 meters; Aaslad, Nor
way, sixth, 6.62 meters.
10000 Meter Walk.
The first qualifying heat in the TO-
wy meter falk was won bq Frigerio of
Italy ]. p Pearman, New York A. c.
was second. Parker of Australia,
tnlrd; Paresi of Italy fourth; c. E. ].
Gann Of England. fifth. and Segers OF
belglum, sixth. w. J. Poker of the
view York A. c. was seventh, being
smut out as only the first six qualify.
the winners time was AT minutes
s Us seconds.
Ihe second qualifying heat in the
iV,VoO meter walk resulted:
Hehir, England, first; McMaster,
south Africa, second; T. A. Maroney,
o. o. Anselms A. c., New York, third
whlam Plant. Moringside A. c., New
nOrk' fourth; Meiendez. Spain, fifth;
Doyeh' Belgium, sixth. The winners
ume was 81 minutes "a 3-5 seconds.
Vualifying heat in the shot put re-
suited:
McKlander. Finland, first, distance
fieo meters; P. j. Mcdonald, New
lork A. e., second 14.08 meters; Por-
no'a' Finland third 14.O35 meters; H.
D Llversedge. United States navy,
,uu,'h eur 1875 meters; Nikkson, Sweden,
n.n 1895 meters; Jammer, Esthonia
sxih 1850 meters.
~. Y. Cam, New York A. c., with
lsoz meters and George H. Bihlman,
"mpic club, San Francisco, with
900 meters failed to qualify.
In Fencing Bouts.
america defeated England in fen
lug with foils today, winning third
p,ale' Each team won eight bouts but
sne Americans scored 32 touches
eainst 81 for England.
a. american fencers yesterday defeat
~ Denmark by 5 bouts to Z, but lost
T. NJ france IA to 2. italy took first
.e ra py defeating France 9 to Z.
v;.s 'e winning second place. Contests
Sas,,, An individual foils and in team
NJ. competitions began today.
So ,or r. w. Honeycutt, Captain R.
SIS captain r. M. Rayner, Arthur
tha lyon and H. Breckenridge made up
day. cam Which iehceo moh-
yas. .ne Greeo-Roman preiiminaries
nsr'. nss'uay Swigart of the United States
sans, 'hrew Rangers, Italian with a
Vrss.,, s's arm bar after three minutes of
..seslling. The Italian kissed the