Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-26

The paired Dared crews. without
coxswains, will row Friday afternoon
at $50 o'clock. Brazil. America and
Holland meeting in the first heat.
Belgium and Italy in the second and
Switzerland and France in the third.
The winners of the three heats will
meet in the finals Sunday afternoon
at 4:3O o'clock. The paired -oared
crews, with coxswains, row Saturday
afternoon at 4 O'Clock, Italy and Bel
gium being drawn for the first heat,
America and France for the second
and Switzerland and Brazil for the
third The three winners will meet
Sunday afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Four-Oared Final Sunday.
Sweden. Canada and Switzerland are
drawn in the first heat for four-oared
shells. which will be rowed Saturday
afternoon at o'clock. Norway.
France and Belgium will meet in the
second, and Brazil. America and
,Czechoslovakia in the third. The three
winners will meet in the final at
o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The preliminaries for the eight
cared crews will be held Friday art
ernoon at 5 o'clock. Norway and
Czechoslovakia meeting in the first.
Switzerland and England in the sec
ond America and Belgium in the
third and France and Holland in the
fourth Winners in these heats Will
meet in the semi-finals Saturday att
ernoon. and the final heat will be
rowed late on Sunday afternoon.
Two Yank Matmen Out.
ANTWERP, August 26.-American
wrestlers in the lightweight class
were eliminated r. he preliminary
catch-as-you-can bouts of the Olym-
pic games here last night, when
Svensson of Sweden defeated George
Metropoulos of Gary. Ind. in the
third round. and Antilla of Finland
beat ]. Shfmmon. New York Athletic
Club, in the quarter hnals. me
Americans, however, quallhed tnelr
full quota of two men in each OF the
other classes.
In the other bouts the results were
as follows:
Featherweights- &C. D. Ackerly.
Cornell University, beat Diabetes of
Greece, and S. N. Gerson. University
of Pennsylvania. defeated Makinson
of England; middleweights- Mac.
Donald. American, beat Lonponen Oh
Canada; light Notwithstanding
S. Maurer of Chicago beat Iladrau of
France. and Lieut.. ]. P. Redmond,
L. S. N. defeated Wilson of England;
Pendleton. New
York A. c.. beat Salida of Finland
and F.. J. Meyer, Chicago H. l., de-
feated Mason of England.
In the quarter finals. Gerson and
Ackerly won their bouts in the
featherweight class. the former de-
feating Parathou of France, and the
latter downing Kaiser of Switzer-
land.
Record for Miss Bleibtrey.
American swimmers captured all
three first places in the final heat OF
the 100-meter free stroke olympic
race for women here today. Ethelda
Bleibtrey of the Women's Swimming
Olympic record for the distance when
she finished first in l minute and
1885, seconds. Her time was SIS
seconds better than the old olympic
mark made by Fanny Durack of Aus
traIIa at the Stockholm games in
1912.
Irene Guest of Philadelphia took
second place and Frances c. Schroth
of San Francisco finished third.
All three first places in the finals of
the plain diving contests went to
Swedes. when Vallman captured first
third. The Brazilian. Welleich. was
eighth. There were no American
inalists.
Norman Ross Scores.
The final of the 1.500-meter free stroke
was won by Norman Ross of the Illinois
y. c. The Canadian, Fernot, was sec
ond, and the Australian. Beaurepaire,
third The United States Navy finished
fourth and Z. T. Bolden of the Illinois
4. c. fifth. Ross time was % minutes
q is seconds.
The American team won it's heat in
the S00-meter Olympiad relay swimming
race in 10 minutes 20 rs seconds. The
men composing the team are Perry Nc
Gilivray of Illinois A. c., Norman Ross
Of Illinois A. c.. p. Kealoha of Honolulu
and Duke kahanomoku of Honolulu.
Besides the American four. the teams
of Australia. Sweden, England and
Italy qualified for the finals.
The final heat of the 400-meter breast
stroke was won by Mammoth Of Sweden
in S minutes 81 As seconds. Henning OF
Sweden was second. Abdomen of Finland
third and J.Howell of the Olympic Club,
,San Francisco. fourth.
Yankee Boxers Second.
The final official award in the Olym-
PIC boxing gives the team trophy to
England. her representatives scoring