New Britain herald., 1924-07-10
By The Associated Press.

mark 8; Canada 2.
 
 By The Associated Prssl.
 Olympic Stadium, colombes, France. July i0.--Paavo Nurmi. the great Finn. crowned himself n double Olympic winner and one of tho great est distance runners of all time to- day when, two hours after winning the i,500-metre race in Olympic roc- ord time he won a thrilling victory in the S,n00-metre event from his fel- low countryman. Willie Ritola. set ting another Olympic and worlds record.
 Gets Greatest Glory.
 Nu.mi's startling achievement gave him the greatest glory any Olympic athlete ever won in single day, but he was hard pressed to cap- ture his second crown for which Ritola, running his fifth straight day and bidding for third title. gave his teammate one of the greatest races of his life and finished but a yard behind
 Ritola's Great Squirt.
 Nurmi and Ritola outcassed the field just as the former had spread eagled the opposition earlier in the afternoon in the 1,500-metres. Ed win Wide. of Sweden, set the pace for five laps, but cracked as first Nurml and then Ritola took the turn In setting a dizzy clip.
 Fifteen hundred metres from the finish Nurmi appeared to have shaken off Ritola, but Willie rallied and put all he had into the finish, racing stride with his rival to the tape but lacking just a fraction of the speed necessary to overtake the winner.
 Swiss Is Dark Horse
 The Swiss star. Scharer, the dark horse of the race. came from behind and beat out +Stallard, the Britisher, for second place by few feet, twenty metres behind Nurmi. stallard, ex- hausted by his effort, collapsed after crossing the line and 1t was several minutes before he was revived. Lowe, the British star. and two Americans, Ray R. Buker, Illinois A. C., and Lloyd Hahn, Boston A. A., also closed with rush that carried
  they finished in that order for the re- mainng places. Nurmi timing his own race with his famous stop watch, simply won as he pleased, proving himself without peer at this distance. His time was only 3-5 of second short Of his own worlds record.
 Ronig Docs Well America has some consolation when John Romig, former intercollegiate country champion, beat out Sipila, of Finland, for fourth place. Romig ran well but like the rest of as Nurpi and Ritola. Nurmi's time of 1 1 minutes, 37 1-5 seconds clipped more than five sec- onds off flames Kohlemainen's Olym- pic record set in 1912 and more than l four seconds off Nurmi's own worlds | record made in Sweden in 1922.
 The point score of the leaders after the 1,500 metre and 5000 metre | events and the hammer throw was: | United States 157, Finland 1OS.
 Breaks World Record
 iiN NoiIh ~ 1pp-Illttlt ltCOiu "dS shattered by an unheralded star, Imbach, of Switzerland, who won the last of the half dozen elminatiod trials in AS seconds flat. The old rec ord was As 15 seconds made by c. D. Reidpath, United States, in 1912.
 1mbach was forced to his worlds mark by the Swedish star Engdahl, who was less than yard behind the winner at the tape. with Eric c. Will son, University of Iowa, in third place, five yards back and thus shut out of the semi-fnals
 Wilson's elimination was the second setback for the American, ranks as Ray Robertson, Boston A. A., appar- ently off form, finished third behind Paulen of Holland and Liddell, of England, in another heat, the time of which was 49 seconds. Taylor and Fitch, the other Americans, easily qualified. The point score of the leaders after the 1,500-meter run was: United States, 13S. Finland, S3.
 The Pole Naulters Tn the pole vault competition Ralph Spearow, the Oregon parson, cleared the bar at 12 feet, 51a inches. but the pole struck the bar, knocking it down. spearow made certain of sixth place in the Olympic standings. At this stage five men remained in the com- petition. with the bar at 12 feet, ( lk inches They were: Lee Barnes, of California; James K. Brooker, Uni- { gersity of Michigan; Glenn Graham. { California Tech. Pickard, of Canada, ( md Peterson, of Denmark. a 1mbach's astonishing performance i vas better by one-tenth of a second i han the best time made pointly by c Taylor and Robertson in the Boston 9 ryouts of 4s 1-1o seconds, which had T tot yet been made official worlds Il ecords.
 400-metre run: second heat: two to Iuslify for second trials. Ray Rob- rtson. Boston A A.. first: Jensen I