Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-23

Antwerp, Aug. 90. - Once again
nations of the world in the track and
field championships of the Olympic car
nival. In the last of the final events
today, the United States athletes boosted
their points to 30 which gave them Il
lead of 105 points over Finland whose
representatives surprised by taking sec
ond place with 105 counters.
In the unofficial standing Sweden is
third with %. England fourth with 02
France fifth with 80 and Italy sixth
with %. The other nations scored
points as follows: South Africa "a
Canada 10, Norway 10. Denmark o.
Esthonia s, New Zealand 3, Belgium .
Australia 3. Czecho- Slovakia 3. HOLLAND
2 and Luxembourg 1.
Although il has not vet been official
ly announced. it is understood that
Captain Helgc Lovoland of the Nor
wcgian army. has been confirmed rs
the winner of the dccathlon. with
Brutus X. Hamilton. of the University
of Missouri. in second place.
Finland Wins Cross Country
The final heat Of the individual cross
country run of nearly ten kilometers
was won by Nurmi, Finland, in q min :
utes Is seconds. Bachman, Sweden
was second; Lumatainen. Finland
third; j., Wilson. England, fourth A
Hegarty. England, fifth. and Conquin
Ger. Italy, sixth.
In the team cross country run at the
same distance Finland with ten points.
was first. England. with 81 points.
was second Sweden. with twenty
three points. third: America. with
ihirty OIL rninfc IA
forty points, fifth. and Belgium. with
fifty points. sixth.
OF the Americans who entered the
individual run. Patrick Flynn. Paulist
4. G.. finished eighth and Fred Faller
Dorchester Club. fourteenth The other
entries from the United States who ran
were John G. Simmons. New York A.
c.: l.. G. Watson. Syracuse X. Craw
ford. Milrosc A. A.. and II. II. Brown,
Boston \. \.
The 1900 meter relay race. next to
tn" last stadium event. was won by
England. with South Africa second
France third, America fourth and
Sweden fifth. Sweden protested the
race, claiming it was started from a
wrong point of the track. The Olym
pic committee is considering the pro
test. The American team consisted of
George 5. Schiller. Los Angeles A. C.
J. f. Meredith. New York A. C. ;
George S. Bretnal. Cornell College
iowa. and Frank 7. Shea. Uaited
States navy. Tho time Of the winning
team was q" minutes 22 - seconds.
Local Boxers Win
Philadelphia athletes gathered greater
honOrs in the Olympics when W. Clark.
representing the Herman Institute of
Philadelphia, qualified in the welter
weight class of the boxing contests.
Clark won his opening bout from
Werll. n Belgium The Quaker CITY
lad clearly outboxed his opponent and
by fast and true iabbing. to say nothing
OF his scoring right and left crosses,
convinced the judges early in the bout
that he was the better boxer.
Ear Hartman, also a Philadelphian
and representing like Clark. the Her
man Institute. was ruled to be a loser
by the judges in the bantamweieht
class. The decision. however. was hotly
protested by the American officials and
it may be that the ruling will be. re :.
versed.
Hartman was opposed by Walker. of
South Africa. The little fellow from
Philadelphia danced around his on
ponent, stepped in and measuring to the
exact point. twice sent Walker To the
floor. TO the surprise of the Americans
present the judges called this bout n
draw at the finish of the third round
An extra round was ordered. At the
end of the time allowance the Judges dc.
clared Walker the winner
The decision brought forth much dis.
approval from The Americans present
The Kissing and jctring continued for
SpVnrnl minlItpl
tually all of the Americans nresent
walking out of the building. Many 10
the Americans were army and navy of.
fcers.
Will Protest
While the Americans were FLING or+
Of the arena, the American coach Wobh
cOmplai ined to the judges, who in turn
complained to Major Graves, rho
American boxing representative, for
what they termed the insulting remarks
of several of the Americans. Maior
Graves went into the dressing room and
criticized Webb for failing to take IN
the matter through the proper Channels
Webb, however, was backed by the
entire boxing team. Ie insisted that
his action was justified and Major
Graves agreed to protest the Hartman
and Nogel matches to the international
jury.
The scene, which for time was
threatening, was calmcd, and the pro-
gram was concluded with +. dc Genera
Paulist A. c., an American, outpointinr
a Frcnchman in neat and speedy bout
which made the thirteenth American
win out of seventeen bouts in the pre-
lminaries. Y.
In the boxing preliminaries for
fcatherwcights, j, Xivic, Willow A. e.,
Pittsburgh, won from Zanetti, Italy, by
default, and G; Etzell, United States
navy, defeated Fritsch. of France.
In tha welterweight class w. Clark
Orstatcher,. Herman Institute. Phila-
delphia, obtained the decision over
Wcrll, g Belgian, and =, Colberg,
United States army. defeated Schanr
n0ng, Denmark. Schneider, a Cana
dian, won from Thomas, of South
Africa.
+. Ziyic, Pittsburgh. was defeated
in the hyweight class by Petersen,
Danish, and f, De Gener, American,
defeated Rampignon French.
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