New Britain herald., 1920-08-17
American Ties For Second Place-Eng-
 fish Beaten At Fenc- ing
QUALIFYING HEATS IN OTHER EVENTS
P. ]. Mcdonald, New York A. C., Gets Second in Trials For Shot Put.

Antwerp. Aug. i7 tBy Tho Asso- c!ated Prees) ).--R. W. Landon. of the New York A. C.. won tho final in tho hiKh jump Of the Olympic Games to- day and established a new Olympic record. Hts jump was t.94 meters: Tho former Olympic record was 1.a3 meters. Ekelund, Of Sweden, and n. B. ] Muller. Of the Olympic Club of san Francisco, wero tied for second place at t.9o meters. Muller beat E,kelund for second place in the jump-on with a jump Of l.ss meters. John Murphy. Multnomah A. C., Portland. Walter whalen. Boston A A., and B. Howard Baker. of Great Britain, were tied for fourth place with Jumps of t.s5 meters. In the iump-off for fourth place, whalen beat Murphy with 1.90 meters Baker did not compete In the Jump-off SO that Murphy was placed fifth and Baker sixth.
 Just as Landon's victory was an- M.rounced and the band was playing The Star SpanEled Banner" Albert. KanE Of the BelEians entered the staad and stood at salute until the anthcm was ended. He flew from Brusseis by airp1ane. Three hundred Amertcan Roy Scouts here on their way home gave him a cheer.
 Landoh's jump Of t.9l meters Ls inc equivalent of about feet 3h inches The worlds record for this jump s feet 7s-is inches made hy F.. Becson at Berkeley on May .. isit. The Olympic record Of t.s3 meters was made by X. w. Richards, U. S. A. iu Stockholm in 1912.
 In 10000 Metro Walk.
 The first qualifying heat in the 10000 metre walk was won by Frig- eric, Of Italy. ]. R.. rearman. New York A. C., was second: Parker. of Australia, third: Paresi. of Italy. fourth: c. F. J. Gum. of England. nfth; SeEers. Belgium. sixth; W. I. Roiker. New York A C., seventh. only the first six qualify. Tho win ner'a time was 1T minutes, 6 2-5 sec onds.
 The second qualifying heat in the 10000 metre walk resulted: ' Hohir, England, first: McMaster, South Africa, second: T. A. Maroney, st. AnSelna's A. C., New York. third; William Plant, Morningside 4. C..
 
 nah: Doyen. Belgium. sixth. The win ner's time was 51 minutes 34 3-5 scc- onds.
 America Wins nt Polls.
 America defeated England in fencing with foils, the Americans win ning third place in that classification. Each team won eight bouts. but the Americans scored 32 touches against 3i for England. Italy won first place and France second in tho fencing contests yesterday.
 The heat qualifying for tho final in '. Inc broad jump resulted as follows:
 Peterson. Sweden. first. 6.si metres. Abrahamsson. Sweden, second. 6:ss: I. F. Johnson. University Of Michi- gan, third. 6:s2; Frankson, Sweden. fourth. 6;73; R. l.. Templeton. I.e- land Stanford university. fifth. 6:67: Aastad, Norway. sixth, G:62.
 Sol Butler. Dubuque college. with 6.s0 metres pulled n tendon on the shrst jump and failed to qualify. ]. W. Merchant of the Olympic club. San Francisco. Jumped $50 metres and also failed to qualify.
 The qualify heat in tho shhot-put resulted: Niklander. Finland, first, distance 14.ibb metres; P. I. McDon- ald New York A. C.. second, 14.Os: Porkola, Finland. third. 14.o35 metres, IT. E. liverscdgc. tnted - states navy, fourth, i3.75 metres: Nilsson, Sweden. fifth. iS.735 metres; Hammer. Esthonia, sixth. 1880.
 1T. c. Cam. New York A. C.. with ! 1a52 metres. and George IT, Bihl- man. Olympic club. San Francisco with 13.b75 metres, failed to qualify
 OIympic~ Win Hurdles.
 All four American entrants in the no meter hurdles won their heats in the fieid of 2s starters. IT. F.. Bar ron, Meadowbrook club, Philadelphia who won tho second heat, made the ;, best time, IS i-5 seconds. Barron Just bent Earl Thompson the Dartmouth college star. who rep resents Canada. The latter toppled two hurdles losing his stride. but he finished fast and strong.
 Prod Murray. New York X. C. William !. Yount. Los Angeles A. e. and Walker smith, Chicago A. A.. A-nlao won their heats.
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