The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-17
A RECEIVERSF7ZP FOR
POINTS QUICK RICHES
SCHEMES AGREED ON
AMERICAN ATHLETES
CAUSED WONDER
Natives Are Much Surprised at the
Tactics of U. S. Naval Academy

Olympic stadium. Antwerp. Aug. H.
r. w Landon of the New York A. c.
won the final in the high jump of the
Olympic games to-day and, in so doing,
established a new Olympic record. Lam.
don's Jump was l94 meters. The for
mer Olympic record was l.93 meters
These qualified for the semi finals in
the ll0-meter hurdles; Colbacchinni,
Italy; Orfidan, France; II. e. Barrou,
Meadow Brook club, Philadelphia;
Earl Thomson, Canada; Fred Murray,
New York A. c.; G. II. Gray, England;
Thorsen, Denmark; w. l.. Hunter,
England; William j. Yount, Los An
geles A. c.; Hutton, Sweden; Walker
Smith, Chicago A. A., and Carl Chris
tierssen, Sweden The best time, l5
and one-fifth seconds, was made by
Barrou.
Ekelund of Sweden and H. B. Muller
of the Olympic club, San Francisco,
we're tied for second place at 100 me-
ters.
John Murphy of the Multnomah A.
A. of Portland, Ore, Walter Whalen
of the Boston A. c. and B. Howard
Baker Of Great Britain were tied for
fourth place, with jumps of l.s5 me-
ters.
Mueller and Ekelund tried hard to
better Landon's jump, but failed.
Just as Landon's victory was an
nounced and the band was playing
"The Star Spangled Banner" Albert,
king of the Belgians, entered the stand
and stood at salute until the anthem
was ended The king flew over from
Brussels by aeroplane.
(Landons jump of l.s4 meters IS
the equivalent Of about six feet, three
and one half inches. The worlds rec
ord for this jump is six feet, seven and
five sixteenth inches, made by Ebeesen,
at Berkley on May 2, 1914. The Olym
pic record of l.93 meters was made
bv A. w. Richards, U. S. A., in Stock
holm in 1927.
Antwerp, Aug. lin the Greco
Roman wrestling preliminaries, yester
day Swigart of the United States navy
threw Thre Rangers, Italian, with
double arm bar, after three minutes OF
wrestling, The Italian kissed the
American at the conclusion of the
match and Swigart returned the sa-
lutte.
The crew of the United States naval
academy continues practice morning
and afternoon, and these workouts
never fail to attract the interest oi
Belgians who group along the cana
critically watching the crew, rowing
one sport with which the townspeopl'
have been long familiar The vigor anc
snap of the young Americans is
novelty here, European oarsmen gen
orally being older men.
The middies throw the entire weight
of their bodies into the stroke and ge
tremendous leg drive which makes
the she'll fairly leap. Another sur
prising American innovation has beer
the work of the midshipmen in rush
ing their shell down TO the water ant
running back to the boathouse TO
their oars. Belgian crews have thei
oars brought to the landing stage b.
women attendants.
The Americans complain that waite
in the canal is dead and heavy, bu
nevertheless, they have raced over I'll
| > OOO-meter course in better time thai
they made at Worcester, where the.
won the Olympic try.out on July q
Dozens of Belgians are daily holdin
stop watches on the Americans, doin
their best to discover what the middle
can do in their shells.
Swedish oarsmen have arrived an
are auartered next door TO the Annapo
lis crew. The Swedish outfit consist
of one four.oar she'll; one two-oar an
one single scull. The oarsmen are BIZ
heavy men who apparently are betwee
25 and 80 years of age. Other Euro
mean oarsmen are due here next weel
They are at present at Lyons, Franc
where they are competing for I'll
worlds championships.
The heat qualifying for the final {
the broad jump resulted to-day as 70
lows:
Peterson. Sweden. first, distance 6.s
, meters; Abrshamsson, Sweden. seeon
CSC; c. f johnson, University Of Miel
igan. third, 6.s2; Frankson, Swede
fourth, 6.73; r. L. Templeton, Letan
Stanford university, fifth, 6l61; Aasts
Norway, sixth, 6.62.
Sol Butler, Dubuque college, wit
$50 meters, pulled a tendon ON u
first Jump and failed TO qualify. as d
J. W. Merchant Of the Olympic Clt
: Of san Francisco. with $50 meters.
The second qualifying heat in the
thousand meter walk resulted. Heb
England, first: McMaster. South Afr
I ca. second; T. A Msroney, 1t. A
/ selm's A. c, New York, third; Villa
: Plant. Morningside A c. New Nor
Z fourth; Melendez, Spain, fifth; Doye
j Belgium. sixth. The winners tir
was 81 minutes 81 and three ffths -