The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-04

new WOFlQ TecOI0 aEOuMQ- q IuIns He had won the 100 meter event two days before, making him the first to win in the 1892 games. And his teammates in the 200 meter event made 1t a clean sweep by taking second and third places. Records also were shattered in the high hurdles, the pole vault, the women's 30 meter hurdles, and the discus throw. In this latter event the world record was sent skimming through the air four times within an hour, to be Jagged finally with the platter thrown by John Anderson, formerly of Cor nell. who dropped 1t 162 feet 7-8 inches away from his ring. Marvellous! The sensation of the day was To1an's race. It topped anything on the program to-day, the most interesting event being the 1,500 meter race. Tolan's race, placed him on the records as the worlds fastest human. Roland Locke, of Nebraska, did 200 meters in 20.6 in. May, 1928, but he ra non a straightaway track and not aroun da turn. Tolan broke slowly but started making up distance in the first 50 meters. When the six runners came to the halfway mark, just before they stepped on the straightaway, he had moved up to within three steps of George Simp- son, Ohio State flash. who led. The three United States entries. Simpson, Tolan and Ralph Met cafe, negro of Marquette univer- | ~tf tvnk 4kf Nk hx 0xxyc,, in that order. Simpson. was two meters in the lead. Metcalfe was a half step behind Tolan. Twenty-Five meters from the tape, Tolan drew abreast of Simp- son. The 75,000 fans came out of their seats as the two cut up the cinder track pace for pace. Fifteen meters from the end To- Ian spurted to the lead. The l chunky negro crossed the finish line two feet ahead of Simpson and Metcalffe was next.
 In the 100 meter finals Monday, Tolan took first in the time of 10.3, a new Olympic and worlds record, just as his 21.2 was in the 200. Tolan thus duplicated the per- formance of Percy Williams, of Canada, who won both the 100 and 200 meter runs at the ninth mod ern Olympiad celebration at Am sterdam in 1928.
 one, Two, Three George Sailing, Percy Beard and Jack Keller of the United States 110 meter hurdles team, were the | first to make a clean sweep for their country in any event this year.
 Sailing, Iowa corn-fed wonder; Beard, from down south in Ala l bama, and Keller. of Ohio, ran against Lord Burghley and Tom Finley of Great Britain and Willi Welscher of Germany.
 They were nervous at the start, facing that tall timber down the track.
 His head almost touching his Ter took the lead. He grazed the fifth hurdle. 1t toppled behind him. He went on in perfect stride. His spikes bit into the eighth and threw him completely off his pace. Back of him along the path hurdles were falling like trees in a tornado. Sailing came to the front in mighty lunges, with only one fallen hurdle behind him. He skinned over the last of the ten and sprinted to the tape 10 tie the Olympic record of 14.6 seconds.
 Three Disqualified Beard was second and Welscheri of Germany followed, but the Ger man boy was disqualified for knocking over four Hurdles and Keller. shins bruised, got third place. v
 The mighty Lord Burghley pulled up in fifth place. Both he and his teammate. Finley, were disqualified with Welscher for knocking over four hurdles each. That made it more than, ever, a whitewash victory for the Ameri- cans. a
 Saling's time equalled the Olym- pic mark set in 1928 at Amsterdam by G. G. Weightman-Smith of South Africa
 Up and Over There was also a record perform ance in the dramatic pole vault contest. Lanky Bill Miller of Stan. ford became the champion. He fin- ally. crossed the bar at IA feet. l 10 tMEAcSp tNOPPlhS 4SCC DdtHCo OL- ficial world mark of IA feet 1 1-2 IS feet, g 1-2 inchse, set by Sabin asss. GsEF in, in winning for the ''' '. s. in
 The unofficial world record for the. event is IA feet. 4 3-4 inches. and is held by Bill Graber of U. $. C., who finished fourth. Shuhei Mis- hida of Japan, fought valiantly to equal Miliers' mark, but he took second honors.
 John Anderson, formerly of Cor nell, set a new games mark in win- ming the discus with a throw of l62 feet, 4 7-8 inches. Henri Laborde of Stanford, was second. and Paul Winter of France, was third. New records were set three times befQre Anderson's final fling.
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 Mildred Didrikson of Dallas es- tablished her second world and Olympic record by winning the first heat of the 80-meter hurdles in 71.8. Earlier in the game she had won the javelin in record figures.
 While there is no recognized. point score for the international Games, every nation keep one. and the unofficial system, used by the United Press, as well as tine first place only" system adopted by some European nations, each. piac. ed America well into the lead.
 The United Press score sheet gave the U. S. 16t points. Great Britain was second with 2s. United states had seven firsts. and the IT, lsh Free, State and Great Britain.
 Three mems finals were listed for to-day. t,y s,I
 Japan, with It's brilliant Kenki. chi Oshimn as well as Nambu and Oda, should be able t0 capture chief IaureIs in the hop. step and Jump.
 Matti Henrik Jarvinen, of Fin- lsnd, holder Of the worlds uneill. ciai Javeiln throw record Of 253 feet. i.4 Inches, along with his leammAfes, PeBttifa and nippaa. were ths aces 10 this classic event.
 Hut the UnItod states had auAi-