Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-08
MARATHON RACE
WON BY RUNNER
FROM ARGENTINE
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tocol, came as the climax of what
were unquestionably the greatest
Olympic track and field games Of
all time.
They were the greatest because
competition was the keenest, and
because this competition brought
out record achievements in nearly
all of the events.
The final day of the track games
saw records fall in each of the
three mems championships decided
as well as in the final two women's
competitions.
The United States team, already
Olympic track and field champion,
won all of the events except the
marathon.
The United States 400-meter re-
lay quartet of Bob Kiesel, Emmett
TOPPING, Hector Dyer and Frank
Wykoff made Olympic history with
triumph in world and games rec
ord time of 40 seconds flat.
Ivan Fuqua, Edgar Ablowich,
Karl Warner and Billy Carr cap
tured the 1600-meter relay in the
time of 1882, better than the best
Of the athletes of the past.
Jean Smiley brought to the
United sStates the women's high
jump title with a world and Olym-
pic record leap of feet, 5A inches,
breaking the former Olympic mark
by precisely inches and improv-
ing on the old world mark of
5 feet, 3s inches.
The American women's relay
team Of Mary Carew, Evelyn
Furtsch, Annette Rogers and Will
helmina Won Bremen, captured the
women's 400-relay in world and
Olympic record time of AZ seconds
flat.
Curiously enough, the American
women were caught by unofficial
timers in 46-9, but the official stop
watches were geared on a fifth
second basis, and At seconds will
be listed as the record for the
books.
There were, figuratively speaking,
a million surprises in the eight
days of mountaineering track. and
field competition. The greatest in
this writer's opinion, was the vic
tory scored by the little-sung Luigi
Beccali, of Italy, who set a new
games mark of 3:51.2 in the
1500-meter.
The event that ran truest To
form was yesterdays marvelously
run marathon. Zabala had been the
great favorite.
Bausch Stands Out
Possibly the award for exhibition
Of greatest nerve, strength and de-
termination should go to Jim
Bausch who won the decathlon, a
Furnishing championship to win
just as it is relatively boring com
petition to watch.
The track and field games hard
luck champion was Ralph Metcalfe
of Marquette who was set back too
far at the start of his lane of the
200-meter final. This error prob
ably cost him the double-century
title.
An unofficial award of staging
the most unsportsmanlike act of
the games could belong to Lauri
Lehtinen of Finland who unques-
tionably interfered with his closest
rival, and who, in this writer's
opinion as well as in those of vir-
tually every other spectator, de-
liberately fouled Ralph Hill Of
Oregon in the closing meters of
the 5000-meter final, ultimately
awarded to the Finn.
The leather medal for official
stupidity went without contest To
the alternate lap-checker who
made the 3000-meter steeplechase
boys do an extra hour around the
stadium.
Finally, the award for presence
Of mind in trying moment wes
the property of Bill Henry, sports
technical director and official an
nouncer, who by his plea to "re-
member these people are our
guests" restored order after the
crowd, thoroughly aroused, was boo
ing Lehtinen TO the skies.