The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-13

Kiefer, the l8 year old Chicago sfiasli, lowered the olympic record Ito s:06.8 aS he beat out Van de EWeahe in the first heat. Yesterday lKiefer created m olympic mark Epf i:06O.
 Drysdale took the second heat, beating by more than second, Nfasojl Kiyokawa of Japan, the de- Bending champion,
 All three of AmerlcVa's l,600-meter men survived the opening heats and moved into tomorrow's semi-flnOls along with three Japanese. Jack Medlea Of Seattle, 400-meter free- Btyl0 champion, and Noberu Terada of Japan finished even in the second heat. Shumpel Uto of Japan beat out Ralph Flanagan in the third heat and James Chrlsty of the United States, third in l032, won the Fourth heat,
 Qualify Three Men
 America qualified three men for khe semi-finals of the 200-meter breaststroke tomorrow but It's changes of capturing that title ap- peared dismal when Tetsuo Hamuro was clocked In 2;a2,5, bettering the Olympic record which was 2;44,0 set by Rei2o Koike of Japan in l032,
 Jack Kasley of the United States Finished third in the second heat, Ray Kaye of Detroit was third in he opening heat and Johnny Hig- gins of Providence took the third heat.
 I Two Americans qualified for the Bemi.finals of the womGn's 400-me- 1 ter freestyle event tomorrow, Mrs. Lenore Right Wingard of Home- stead, Pa, finished second to Ragn- hild Hveger Of Denmark who creat- ed an Olympic record of 6:28 In the first heat.
 Mary Lou Petty of Seattle was third in the fourth heat in which there were only three competitors The pace was slow because all three automatically qualified Dorothea Dickinson Of the U. s. scratched her entry in the second heat because of sprained shoulder. \ BASKETBALL TEAM IN FINALS
 Berlin, Aug. l3,-(UP) --- The United States basketball team to- day entered the Olympic nnal by defeating Mexico 25-l0 in the semi finals at the tennis platz. At half kime the Americans led l3-2,
 The United States Blue" team giants capitalized on their height 1n the first half and kept control of the ball. They also were more accurate in their shooting than the Mexicans who were using delayed offense and were powerless to break through the U. s. man-for-man defense.
 The only Mexican points In the first half were scored on fouls. Frank Lubin of Hollywood, Calf, led Uncle Sans scorers with five points.
 The U. s. team will meet Canada hn the final tomorrow. The Cana dians entered the final today by Beating Poland 42-l5.
 Three Boats in Race
 Gruenau Germany, Aug. l3- tUP)-The United States will have Q representation of three boats in tomorrow's seven final Olympic rowing even s. Two boats gained the finals today.
 The double souls combination of Bill Dugan and John Houser of Philadelphia came second in a con- soiation heat, gaining the final, and ' Dan Barrol of Philadelphia quali- fled in his semi-final singles souls heat. The University of Washing ton eight-oared crew entered the final in record time yesterday.
 Four other American shells were Eliminated today.
 In the four-oared shells with cox swains, the U. S. shell came in sec- ond to France in a consolation heat ard failed to make the final. The U. S pair-oared shell without coxswain was eliminated in the first of three consolation heats. And the pair cared shell with coxswain was ellm- mated in the first consolation heat. uncle Sams foug-oared shell with