Evening star., 1924-07-08
YANKEE ATHLETES
GAIN COMMANDING
LEAD IN 0LYMP|CS
Wins in Shot and Broad
Jump Run Points to 98.
Firms Next With 81.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OLYMPIC; STADIUM, colonies,
France, July Shaking a clean
sweep of the first three places in the
shot-put and sending the Stars and
Stripes up three stadium masts for
the first time, the United States today
swept into commanding lead for
the Olympic track and field cham
pionships. The twenty-one points
gained in this event ran the total for
America up to ninety-eight, or nearly
| double Finland's "a.
Other points after today's events
were distributed as follows: Great
Britain, 2Sa; Sweden, 141s; France,
9h; Hungary, 71a; Switzerland, 5;
Norway, 4; New Zealand, 4.
Hauser Wins Shot Put.
Clarence Hauser. the California
collegian, gave the United States its
second triumph in winning the shot
put. C7em Hartranft Of Leland
Stamford and Ralph Hills of Prince
ton took second and third places, and
Norman Anderson of University of
Southern California fifth place in the
terrific battle of the shot put giants.
Torpo of Finland was fourth in the
Finn, was sixth. but Porhola. the
shot Put, and Nicklander, another
Olympic champion. was unplaced.
Hauser's winning toss was 40 feet
ea inches.
Americas first triumph of the day
| came in the broad jump. when
De Hart Hubbard leaped twenty-four
! feet six inches to take first place
| while his countryman, Edward Gour-
din, took second place, adding Is
points to the United States total.
Finland suffered a serious setback
| in the broad-jump event, picking UP
| only 3 points by virtue of the fact
that Tuolos took fourth place. Hub
bard's jump was below the Olympic
| record and exactly one foot shorter
| than the mark of twenty-five feet six
inches, a world-record performance
set by Robert Legendre, Newark
A. c., in the pentathlon yesterday.
| Walter A. Comins of Yale, another
of Americas broad jumpers, injured
his leg on the first leap. He was in
tercollegiate champion in 1923-24.
| RomiE Thrills Americans.
! John Romig. Penn State. gave the
Americans their first thrill of any
| Olympic distance race so far when
he won the third and last elemina-
tion trial in the 5000 meter event
leading Edwin Wide, the Swedish
star, by fifty yards. and Willie Ritola,
the Finnish ace, by more than 100
yards.
Romig ran heady race, letting his
two Scandinavian rivals set the pace
for nine laps, then shooting out in
front in the tenth and last lap, run
ming away from his noted opponents,
who in the last stages OF the run
did not try to catch the flying
ing places.
Romig's time of Is minutes IA 5-5
seconds was the fastest of any of
the three trials, the other two of
which were won by the famous
Nurmi and another Finn, Hursda
Rastas
The other three Americans entered
in the 5,000-meter event were out
classed and did not qualify. ]. Il.
Lermond. Boston College. finished
sixth to Romig, Rilus DoolittIe. But
ler College Of Indianapolis, finished
sixth to Rastas and H. A. r. Phelps,
University of Iowa, finished seventh
| to Nurmi.
Great Britain conquered the United
States when D. G. A. Lowe, teammate
| of Harold Abrahams, winner of the 1oC
meters yesterday. led brilliant field to
| the finish in the So0-meter final.
1t was the. team work of the Bri-
tons that gave them the victory, for
H. B. Stallard, the favorite. set a
1 terrific pace for three-quarters of the
i way when Lowe came through with a
burst and broke the tape in 81 e-5
seconds. only q half second slowe,
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