Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-18
EARL THOMSON SETS
NEW WORLD RECORD
IN HURDLES RACE
Wins Final Heat in Olympic Games
in 110-Metres, in Ia As
Seconds.
AMERICANS LEAD
IN POINTS SCORED
ny Associated Press 20 Every Evening


Antwerp, Aug 1S-Earl Thomson,
the Dartmouth College star. who is repre-
senting Canada IN the Olympic games
today won the final heat Of the | 10 meters
hurdles, hanging up new worlds record
of Ia As seconds II. Il. Barron, Of the
Meadowbrook Club Philadelphia, was
second, and Fred :. Murray OF the New
York A. G., third.
Wilson, Of New Zealand, was fourth
Walker Smith Of the Chicago A. A.,
fifth. and Carl Christensen Of Sweden,
sixth The old record OF the event, both
Olympic and world, was % seconds fiat.
For the first 30 yards Thomson, Barron
and Murray took the hurdles abreast
Then Thomson drew away. He finished
212 Yards ahead ef Barron with Murray
third by an inch. Wilson just nosed out
Walker Smith. Christensen was poor
last. At the finish of the race II was dis
covered the Belgian committee had not
provided a Canadian flag 10 raise over the
entrance tower, 50 It was necessary TO
hoist the British flag
Nilhelmsen, who finished third in the
last heat, was disqualified for shoulder
ing, another runner on the turn and Four
neau, the Belgium who finished fourth
was advanced and qualified
The final of the shot put was won by
Pot Porkola, of Finland, who put the
l6-pound shot l4S1 meters. Niklander,
Finald, was second, 14151a; H. B.
Liversedge, United States Navy, third,
1415; F. J. Mcdonald, New York A. c.,
fourth, Alb; Nilsson, Sweden, fifth,
1887; Jammer, Esthonia, sixth, with
1850 meters.
England beat Belgium in the tug of war
In 30 3-5 seconds.
The crowd again was small today and
the Belgian officials were much dis
appointed. Count Henri de Ballet
Latour, president of the Belgian executive
Olympic committee said:
THE committee worked hard TO get the
games for Antwerp in order TO show the
world what little Belgium could do with
sporting events. We now find ourselves
In the position where there seem 10 be
more foreigners at the games than Bel
gians. Even our press is not showing as
much interest rs the foreign correspon-
dents,
Peterson, of Sweden, won the final of
the broad jump with ! ID metres. c. f..
Johnson, University of Michigan, was
second with 70912: Ahramsson of Swe-
den third, with 7.0S; r. l.. Templeton.
Leland STANFORD nlNefSttNt tOufth, WIN
600 meters; Aastad, of Norway, fifth
with 6SSia, and Frsnksson of Sweden
sixth, with 6.67,
Those who qualified for the | l,500-meter
run were Nohrahk of Czecho-Slovakla
A. c. Hill of England, Audinet of France,
Lundgren OF Sweden, D. McPhee of
England. NJ. l.. Shields, Meadow Brook
Club. Philadelphia, John Zander of
Sweden; Porro of Italy; J. j. Connolly.
Boston A. A; Joie Ray. Illinois A. c.;
P. ] Baker, of England, and Wilhelmsen
of Esthonia. The time of the best heat
was minutes l-5 seconds.
Olympic Stadium, Antwerp, Aug. IS
Four Americans qualified today for the
finals of the 5000 meter steeplechase of
the Olympic games They were Michael
Devanney, Millrose A. A.; Patrick Flynn.
Paulist A. c.: r. h. Watson, Kansas
State Agricultural College, and Al Hulsen-
bosch, Pauist A. c.
Ambrosini. Italy, Rissanen, Finland;
Hedvall and Mattson. Sweden. and Hodge
of England, also qualified Hodge made
the best time, 10 minutes and IL 2-5 sec
onds. There were five hurdles and vast
water jump as obstacles.
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