New Britain herald., 1920-08-20
American Makes Good Time on
 Heavy Track
LOS ANGELES MAN SECOND
RudaI Takes 100 Metre Run For Bri- tain. Shea Eour5ll-Einnish Run- Starts Today.

Antwerp. Aug. 20.-Allen Wood ring Meadowbrook club, Philadcl- phia won the 200 metre dash at the Olympic Games today in 22 seconds. The record is 21 3-5 made by A. Hahn of the United States at St. Louis in 1904.
 Charles W. Paddock. Los Angeles, A. C. finished second; H. F. Edward, | England. third: Lorin Murchison. N. |. A. C.. fourth: c. Davidson, New Zealand fifth, and Oosterlsap of South Africa, sixth.
 B. G. D. Rudd, the South African ! crack. won the final heat of the 300 metre run. His time was 49 3-5 sec onds. 1 2-5 seconds slower than the record. G. NJ. Butler. England was second. EngdahI. Sweden third. and Frank J. Shea, United States Navy, fourth. J. C. Ainsworth Davis. of England, was fifth and DafeI of South Africa, sixth.
 On the back stretch Shea led by a trific but on the second turn was passed by Rudd. Butler and EfgdahI Nurmi. the Finnish long distance runner, won the final of the 10000 meter run. GuilIemot, the French cha mpion. was second. and J. Wilson OI EnSiaHur lnlr0- The winners ! time was 31 minutes 45 2-5 seconds.
 Maccario. Italy, was fourth; Man hes. France. fifth, and Lumatainen, Finland, sixth. Fred w. Taller of the Dorchester club the only Am ercan in the final, was distanced.
 FoSs Breaks Record. F. K. Foss, Chicago A. A, won the final of the pole vault, breaking the worlds record with a vault of 13 feet Is inches. The previous rec i ord. Is feet 1-4 inches. was made by the American athlete. M F. Wight. in June. 1912.
 Hodge of England. won the final heat of the 5000 meter steepIechase race. Three Americans were among the first six. Patrick Flynn, Paulist A. C.. being second: Michael Devan- ney. Milrose A. A., fifth, and Al Hull senbosch. Paulist A. C., sixth. Am brosini. Italy, was third, and Matt son, Sweden, fourth. Hodge made the distance in 10 minutes 2 2-5 sec onds. The race was won in a cold rain and only a few spectators were present to witness it.
 Brutus Hamilton. University of Missouri: Harry Goelitz Illinois A. C.: Lieut.. F.. r.. Vidal, T.. s. army and F.. Ellis. Syracuse university were the American entrants in the classic decathlon, which began today and will be finished tomorrow. The Am erican team in sword duelling de- feated the CZecho-Slovaks, II victor ies to but was beaten by the Swiss team to 6. The Americans thus stand a chance to win second place in this contest.
 Babe" Mcdonald. N. Y. traffic po- liceman. led the qualifiers in the 5s
 
 meters. Pat Ryan, Loughlin, Ly- ceum, was second with 1Os25 meters: Lind of Sweden. was third. 1e.255, McDermitt, Canada. fourth, BATS; Svensson, Sweden, fifth, 945; Peter son. Finland, sixth. 9.375
 M !. McGrath, N. Y. A. C., was unable to enter the trails in throw in the SC pound weight. owing to a strain he suffered this week. and Lieut.. F.. R. Roberts. T.. s. army and ]. w. MacEacheran. Olympic club. San Francisco. failed to qualify
 England was expected to figure strongly in the Olympic boxing events which began today in the half of fetes at the Antwerp geological gar dens. The other entries were. United States. South Africa. France. Switzer- land. Holland. Norway. Italy and Belgium.
 Each nation was permitted two competitors with one reserve for each of the eight classes
 Eight ounce gloves are used and each match except in case of a draw goes 10 four rounds or a knockout with three minute rounds and one minute rests.
 Pavezi of Italy today won the first heat of the 5000 meter walk in IS minutes 46 2-5 seconds. Parker of Australia. was second; T. Maroney. St. Anselms A. C.. third: Dawson of England, fouth: Peterson. Denmark. fifth: Seghers, Belgium, sixth. I. R. Pearman. N. Y. A. c. was ruled off for running during the fourth lap.
 Frigerio of Italy won the second heat in 13 minutes 40 1-5 seconds. McMaster of South Africa. was sec ond: R. Remer, American Walkers club. third; w. Roller, New York A. C.. fourth; Hepier. England. fifth. and Gum. England. sixth.
 Engdahl of Sweden won the first semi-hnal heat of the 100 meter run in 4s 2-5 seconds. B. G. D. Rudd. south Africa. was second, and J. C. Davis. England, third R. s. Emery. Chicago A. A., finished fourth and failed to qualify.
 George B. Schiller. Los Angeles A. C., also was eliminated in the first heat.
 Prank J. Shea. U. 6. navy captured the second heat in 50 seconds fiat. 1 G. M Butler. England. was second | and Dafel. South Africa. third. J. E. Meredith of the N. '. A. C.. hn- l