The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17
Surprise
 Belgian Spectators With Snap And Pep
Navy Oars1nen Rush Shell to Water In Practice and Ther Hurry Back for Their Oars-Ame11can Wrestler
 Given Kiss for Defeating Italian

Antwerp. Aug. 17-Today's O1ym- pic events included the first and sec ond series in the 10000 meter walk, elimination events in the broad jump and the shot put, the first series in the no meter hurdles, the final in the broad jump and the final in the 5000 metre run.
 Interest in today's events was stimulated by the announcement that King Albert would attend, and that America would be represented in the cheering by American Boy Scouts, who attended the London scout "jamboree'' and who will sail for the United States on bo ird the transport Matoika, on which the American Olympic team came to Europe. Finals to decide third place in foils competition also were on the program American fencers yester- day defeated Denmark 9 bouts to ' but lost to France IA to 8. Italy i took first place in the foils by de- feating France to ', France thus | winning second place. Contests with individual foils and in team sword dueIling began today. Major F. w | Honeycutt, Captain R. Sears, Captain H. M. Rayner, Arthur $. Lyon, and l H. Breckenridge made up the Amer 1 ican team yesterday.
 Italian Kisses American.
 In the Graeco-Roman wrestling | preliminaries yesterday Swigart of the United States navy threw Ran l giers, Italy, with a double arm bar 1 after three minutes of wrestling. The Italian kissed the American at the conclusion of the match, and Swigart ] returned the salute. J. Gallery, U. $. Navy, -outpointed Maaren of Holland. J. K Vorres of Chicago beat Dialetis l of Greece.
 ! The crew of the United States Naval Academy continues practice | morning and afternoon and these l workouts never fail to attract the in- ! terest of Belgians, who group along the canal critically watching the | crew, rowing being one sport with l which the townspeople long have been familiar. The vigor and snaE 1 of the young Americans is a novelty here, European oarsmen generally being older men. The middies throw
 the entire weight of their bodies into the stroke and get tremendous leg
 drive which makes the shell fairly leap. Another surprising American innovation has been the work of the l midshipmen in rushing their shel down to the water and running back
 to the boat house for their oars Belgian crews have their: oars
 brought to the landing stage by wo- | men attendants.
 | Say Water Is Dead.
 The Americans complain that the I water in the canal is dead and heavy but nevertheless they have raced over
 the 2,000 metre course in better time
 than they made at Worcester where
 they won the Olympic tryouts or
 July 24. Dozens of Be1gians art
 daily holding stop watches on tht | Americans.
 | Swedish oarsmen are quarteret
 next door to the Annapolis crew. Th'
 Swedish outfit consists of one oa1
 shell, one 2 oar and one single scul l boat. The oarsmen are big, heav.
 men who apparently are between 2
 and 35 years of age. Other Euro pean carmen are due here next week
 They are at present at Lyons, Franc
 where they are competing for th'
 worlds championship.