The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-11
UNITED STATES
JAPAN ARE TIED
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urdayS qualifying heat In 9:oi.O.

urday'S qualifying heat In 3:oi.o.
That triumph put the Japanese
women In second place with ten
points behind Holland which has
TN. None OF Americas entrants
reached the finals.
American Hopes Soar
American hopes OF retaining ia
WomenB title scared today, however,
when Edith Mortridgc OF Los An
geleB and Alice Bridges Of Tx
bridge, Mass, both qualified for the
seTni.finalg tomorrow In the 100.
meter bacKStroke.
Among the crowd Of 10000 which
saw the competition was Mrs. Elear-
or Holm Jarrett OF New York,
olympic champion In 1889 who was
dismissed from the American team.
Running away with their OPP
ponentB and taking the 00-meter
race for the second consecutive
year, the japanese covered the
course In eight minutes, SIS seconds
which shattered oil marks for the
distance. That time bettered the
Olympic-and officially recognized
world rnark-which o Japanese team
hung up at 1884 In the 1899 Olynl-
pics. II surpassed O mark OF 0:62.2
up for acceptance which was made
by o Japanese team In Toxic In
1885. And II was better than tho
1851 race the Japanese turned In
yesterday In capturing their opening
qualifying heat.
In Lead from Start
The Japanese four gplashcd into
the lead from the start and kept
gazing away until the Americans
were IS meters behind ut the fin
ish. The u. q. team OF Ralph Flan-
agan, John MacioniS, Paul Wolf and
Jack Medica was clicked In nine
minutes, three seconds.
Medica, who qualified this morn
Ing for the finals Of tonorrow's 40.
meter freestyle race along with his
teanmate Flanagan and three jap.
aneSc stars, swan the fastest leg
for America In the relay. Tho Seattle
gtar went the 200.inetcr distance In
2:iS.0 which was slower than the
last two JapanaSe-MaSaliaru Ia.
guchi and Shigeo Arai--who each
covered the four lengths In 2:I3.
Masanori YuSa, only member Of
the Japanese team who was on the
1892 triumphant lineup, WAS first
into the pool against Flanagan. At
tho finish Of 200 meters he gave
Shigeo Suguira O good lead. Each
succeeding Japanese gave his team
mate @ substantial lead and by
the time Masaharu Taguchi plunged
into the water against Paul Wolf,
Americas No. 3 man, II was only o
question Of how many meters the
Japanese would win.
Medica, who swan anchor for the
y. g.. finished IS meters ahead Of
the last Hungarian man. France
was fourth and Great Britain fifth.
Jap Girl Forged Ahead
In the women's breaststroke, Mar
tina 0enenger Of Germany who fin
ished second got off TO O flying
start and held the lead for one lap.
Then the Japanese girl forged
In front and by the end Of the third
lap was half o length ahead OF the
German swimmer. Twenty meters
from home, both were even but
Miss Mayehata put on o finishing
sprint and won by about five feet.
Inge Sorensen Of Denmark was
third.
Boat Crew Eliminated
Qruenau, Germany, Aug. IL
(UP)-The United Staets was elm
mated from the four-oared shell
with coxswain competition Of the
Olympic rowing events today when
It's team finished fourth in Its heat
before O crowd Of 1000 lining the
picturesque der Langesee" or Long
Lake course.
Holland, Germany and Switzerland
qualified for the finals as winners
Of the three heats today. Holland
won the first heat eliminating Bra
I'll, Japan, Denmark, CzechoslovalEia
and Sweden. Germany put out
France, Jugoslavia, United States,
and Poland and Switzerland dis
posed Of italy, Hungary and Uru-
quay.
Germany had the best time Gall
There was q stiff cross breeze
chopping UP the water during the
competition.
The American team was composed
Of Edward Howard Bennett, Jr., Of
Melrose, Mass, coxswain; Robert
Gutter, Charles River, Mass, John
Austin, scarsdale, N. Y, Roger Gut