Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-17
LANDoN MAKES NEW.
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but lost to France II to-. Italy took hrst
p o in the foIls by defeating France TO
Z, France thus. winning second place.
Contests with Individual foils and IN team
sword dueIing began today. Major
T.. W. Honeycutt, Captain X. Sears,
Captain II NJ Rayner, Arthur ). Lyon
and VI Breckenridge made mp the Amerl-
can team yesterday.
In the rcco-Roman wrestling pre-
limnaries yesterday Swipart, Of the
United States Navy, threw Rangers,
Italy, with double arm bar, after three
minutes Of wrestling. The Italian kissed
the American at the conclusion OF the
match. and Swigart returned the salute
J. Gallery, United States Navy, outpoint-
ed Maaren Of Holland j X. Worries of
Chicago beat Dialects of Greece.
The qualifying heat in the shot put re-
suited
Nklander. Finland, FIRST IA l55 meters;
p J. Mcdonald, New York A. G., second.
11.Os; Porkola. Finland, third, l4035
meters: H. b. I.iversedpe. United States
Navy fourth, 1875 meters; Nilsson,
Sweden, fifth. 1875 meters; Jammer,
Esthenia. sixth, 1860.
II. G. Cam. New York A c., with 1882
meters. and George II. Bihlman, Olympic
Club. Snn Francisco, with 13.575 meters,
failed TO qInlify.
The second qualifying heat IN the
| l0,0O0-meter waTk resulted.
Hehir England first; MeMaster, South
/ Africa, second; T. A. Maroney. 81. An
selm's A. C., New York. third; William
!, Plant. Morningside A. g. New York.
/ fourth; Melendez, Spain fifth; Doyen,
/ Belgium. sixth The winners time was
/ 81 minutes 81 3-5 seconds
America defeated England in fencing
I with foils today, the Americans winning
] third place in that classification. Each
team won eight bouts, but the Americans
scored b touches against 81 for England.
The finish in the l00-fneter race yester-
day was still the subject of dispute today
4 meet ing of the Olympic games jury was
called to inspect photographs showing
Scholz. the American, away ahead 0t
/ Alkhan, the Frenchman who was placed
| fourth. while Scholz was declared 10 have
finished fifth
An official order was said to have been
gwen To place Scholz fourth but the Bel
gian press announcer as we'll as the result
on the board scored him fifth.
The crew Of the United States Naval
Academy continues practice morning and
afternoon and these workouts never fail to
/ attract the interest of B elgiane. who group
along the canal critically watching the
crew, rowing being one sport with which
the townspeople long have been familiar
The vIgor and snap OF the young Americans
is novelty here European oarsmen gen
erallv being older men The middies
throw the entire weight of their bodies
INTO the stroke and get a tremendous leo
drive which makes the shell fairly leap
Another surprising American innovation
has been the work of the midshpnen II
rushing their shell down to the water anc
running back to the boat house for Their
oars.
Belgian crews have their oars brought L
the landing staee BY women attendants
The Americans complain that the waite
in the canal IS dead and heavy, but never
theless they have raced over the 1000
meter course in better time than they mad
at Worcester where they won the Olvm
PIC tryout on July II. Dozens of 3elg'
. are daily holding stopwatches on 81
Americans.
Swedish oarsmen are quartered mex
door 10 the Annapolis crew. The Swedish
: outfit consists of one four-oar shell, on
two-oar. and one single scull boat Tn
oarsmen are big heavy men who apparent
, lv are between 25 and 35 years Of age
! | Other European oarsInen are due her
. next week They are at present at Lyons
France, where they are competing for tn
world championship.
The heat qualifying for the final OF III
broad jump resulted as follows: Peterson
Sweden, first. 694 meters, AbrahamsoT
r Sweden second. 6.S6; {. +. johnson
University of Michigan, third 6.s.
Frankson, Sweden, fourth, 6.73; X.
\ Templeton Leland Stanford Universit,
fifth 6 s. Aastad, Norway, sixth, 6.62.
n Sol Butler, Dubuque College. with 6.t
meters. pilled tendon on the first jun
and failed to qualify J w Merchant,
. the Olympic Club. San Francisco. iumpe
$50 meters and also failed to qualify.
The FIRST qualifying heat in the l0,0G
meter walk was won by FreigeroI OF Ital.
J. Il. Pearman New York A c., was Sc,
ond: Parker, of Australia, third; Paresi.
Italy. fourth; {. T.. J. Gum, of Englsn'
. fifth; Segers, of Belgium. sixth, and ".
n Rolker, of the New York \. c., Sevent
Only the first six qualify. The winner
time was Il minutes, q p seconds.
After the first heat of this event il VI
: discovered that the course covered was OF
= lap short The heat will stand but Il
time was thrown out.
All four American entrants In the | Il
i. meter hurdles won their heats in the fle
of 26 starters H. f. Barron, Meadow
/ brook Club. Philadelphia, who won Il
second heat, made the best time, Is l.
o seconds.
Barron Just beat Earl Thomson, Il
n Dartmouth College star, who represen
Canada. The latter topped two hurdle
losing his stride but he finished fast al
, strong.
Fred Murray. New York A. c. Villa
! J. Nount Los Angeles A. c.. and Walk
Is Smith, Chicago \. A., also won the
heats.
II American newspaper men protest,
TODAY ngains; one of the Belgian announ
E. ers their complaint being that they cou
not understand the announcements q
Belgian was supposed To make in Englis
! They demanded that an American who
4 English they could comprehend unde
take this work and in this they We're SUI
; ported by the English aud Swedish new
l. paper men.
n Antwerp, Aug I7-The American
performances in the Olympics yesterd,
Y netted them total of 4S points in Il
track and field events IL In the hurdle
Il Is in the lo0-meters dash and IL in Il
h pentathlons-ou of possible 90 for 4
day $ contests
|. Sweden, which gained only one ff
,e place yesterday to add to Sundays o
sixth place, has only three point ira
n total Finland. by the 10 points won IN Z
iavein throy Sunday and the 10 in VI
terday's pentathlon, has %, and is seeol
IN the Americans