Evening star., 1936-08-05


Doris Eckert of Germany although all
three were clocked in 1l,8.
Tidy Pickett, Chicago Negress. fell
hard after tripping at the second hur-
die and was assisted from the track.
Harold Whitlock of Great Britain
captured the 5O-kilometer walk. Ar
thur-Tel Schwa5 of Switzerland was
second.
Owens won the championship in
POT seconds -tenths of a second
taste: than the new Olympic record
he set in the trials and quarter finals
yesterday. He beat Robinson by half
a meter.
Robinson, the duSky Pasadena jun
ior college star, was clocked in u, L
seconds, duplicating his time in the
Semi-finals this morning. Martin
Osendarp of Holland ran third.
Forrest (Spec) Towns of Augusta.
Ga. Americas ace high-timber topper;
Fritz Pollard. ir., Chicago, colored, and
Roy Staley of Corona, Calf. won their
heats in the 110-meter hurdle trials.
Towns, after Slightly shaky get
away, trailed his rivals for a while,
then quickly regained his stride and
flashed his customary dazzling finish.
winning in AS seconds, within one
tenth of a second of the record set by
the late George Sailing of Iowa City
during the trials four years ago.
Pollard won his heat handily in 14.7
seconds, while Staley was clocked in
Is seconds fiat capturing his trial.
Don Finlay, Great Britain Olympic
veteran, who won his heat in 14.7 sec
onds, and Erik Lidman of Sweden, win
ner of the sixth and last heat in 149,
loomed as the hurdlers the Americans
must beat.
Miguel White Of the Philippines
tripped and fell at the next to last
barrier and withdrew from the last
heat after good start. White hurt
his right leg painfully in falling.
Glenn Cunningham of Lawrence,
Kans, ran second to Eric Ny, trail
ing the Swedish star by feet in the
I,500-meter trials. They were so
close at the finish both were clicked
in minutes 548 seconds.
The Kansan never extended him.
self and was satisfied as he qualified
comfortably for the final tomorrow.
Glenn was in the middle of the 10
man field most of the way, but moved
up on the last lap.
Werner Boettcher of Germany, who
set the pace until Ny moved to the
front on the gun lap, gained the third
qualifying place in a blanket finish.
Ossi Teileri, the Finnish star, ran
fourth and was eliminated.
Gene Venzke of Philadelphia quail
fed in the second heat, crossing the
finish line with John Cornes of Great
Britain and Jack Lovelock. celebrated
New Zealander, in team like fashion.
Venzke was awarded the judges deci-
sion, winning in the slow time of
1904.
Cornes and Lovelock were two
tenths of a second slower than the
Penn picture runner, although it ap-
peared the trio crossed the tape so
close together that it was difficult to
see how the watch could have sep
arated them. They we're less than a
foot apart.
Cornes and Lovelock both pulled up,
slackening their PAGES. as soon as they
were satisfied they had clinched places
in the final.
Venzke, meanwhile. was forced to
- %oI, .Jr,xy
Scholtz of South Africa. Gene was
fourth entering the stretch, collaring
his rival in the last 20 meters, and then
carried on the squirt to victory.
At the halfway mark of the So
kilometer walk, Janis DalinSch of
Latvia was leading in the astoundingly
fast time of hours 8 minutes IA
seconds. None of the Americans were
among the first eight. JaroSlav Stork
of Czechoslovakia and Harold Whit
lock of Great Britain were second and
third, respectively.
Argentina's Olympic polo team
easily defeated Mexico, IS goals to s.
Pentathlon Lead Held.
Gotthardt Handrick, Germanys
favorite, held his leading position in
Olympic modern pentathlon competi-
tion, although he placed no better
than ninth in today's test, the 300
meter swim. Sven Thofelt of Sweden
ranked second in total points for the
four events so far completed in the
five-event competition and Charles F.
Leonard, jr., Of st. Petersburg, Fla,
third.
With only one event to 60, the cross
country run tomorrow, Handrick had
compiled the low total Of 1875 points,
against % for Thofelt, who was third
in the swimming, and 80 for Leonard,
who placed sixth in the swim.
The other two American entrants,
Alfred d. Starbird of Burlington. VT,
and Lieut.. Fred r. Weber of West
Point, N. Y. and the New York A. c.,
t.