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butt and Phillips were able to reach
the 40Oynaeter finals
Meanwhile one worlds record fell
and two Olympic records t0ppledi as
the fifth day Of composition neared
It's close.
Betters Nurrni's Mark
The worlds record went to Frau
Ilein Radke. III Germany. I'll winning
the SO0.meter ladies' championship
In ZIG As, bettefing her own mark
with seconds 10 spare. one olympic
record was made by T.arva. Of Elm
land. who won the I500-meter final
In 3.53 Is. bettering Nurmi's mark
by 2.5 of a second. but failing to
eclipse the world 3 record for the
distance.
Lindquist. of Sweden, established
q new Olympic record for the jayelin
throw when he hurled the spear a.
distance OF 21S feet lis Inches
during the preliminary trials. The
former record was els feet 81
inches, made by Jonni Myyra, the
Finn. In 1920.
The collapse OF the American
jayelin men was almost complete,
Sager alone placing In his elimina-
ton series with throw OF a 1913
feet Alb inches. However. there
were nine throws superior to this
in the complete returns from the
examinations and so Sager failed to
make the finals.
Hines was far off form through
out the trials. failing to better 1876
feet in any OF his efforts.
Lindquists Olympic record OF 21S
feet 6 1-16 inches. also held good
through the finals. the other place
winners finishing with the following
distances;
Scopes, Hungary, FLA feet 3.10
inches: Sunde. Norway, 200 feet
1919 inches; Liettu. Finland, EOS
feet 10 $40 inches; Schlokat,; Ger.
many, EOS feet / 4 inch. and Pent-
tia, Finland. 207 feet 4 10 inches.
Conger never was in the hunt at
any time in the 1.500-meters, the
pace apparently being too keen for
him. He was third from the tail
end of the field making the first
round of the track and, from that
point, he dropped steadily rear
ward, being so meters behind the
winner at the finish.
Wichmann, of Germany, was
fourth: Ellis, of England. fifth. and
Paul Martin. the Swiss, was sixth.
LarVa's lerformance was so rem
iniscent of the victories Of the Abo
antelope in previous games that the
crowd Immediately nicknamed him
'I4arVa of. Nurmi.''
Run Germans Ragged
The two Finn, Larva and Purje,
teamed perfectly, the latter being
in there to run the Germans
tongues out, which he proceeded to
do. leaving them with no punch
for the stretch run.
Wichmann and Krause jumped the
pace at the sound of the gun and
tried to make the going suit their
needs but Purje would have none of
this. lie rushed to the front going
into the second lap and carried the
field out at a. dizzy clip, Larva re-
naming we'll back in the pack.
LarVa then stepped out on the
final lap to take the lead but the
Frenchman, La Doumegue. pro.
ceedeu to show a lot of authority in
the back stretch, racing to LarYa's
elbow and passing him on the final
turn, 200 meters from home. with
a great burst of speed.
Beautiful Finish
There seemed to he nothing to IL
out La Doumegue at this point, for
ne was 10 yards in front and going
strongly. But he reckoned without
Larva's sprint. AS the latter
rounded into the stretch. he picked
up his speed with every stride and
moving like a. quarter miller came
on tn PASS the Frenehnan 90 wards
from the finish and wa as
champion should.
the best American showing OF the
day in any final event by placing