The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-03
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First Track Victory
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front and continued to forge ahead as the field of six drove down the sogey track.
 Halfway from home, 1t was cer- tain that nothing short of Q spill could prevetn Jesse from winning. Metcaife, always Q slow starter, was out of the pits slowly. At 26 meters he was fourth, and ct the halfway mark had moved up to third. Then the big negro turned on the heat and blazed past his opposition 10 hold down second place at 76 meters. He put on 6 final burst Of speed but could not catch the hy- ing Owens.
 Hard Going ln Semi. Final
 Jesse owens, slowed down by Q track made soggy by hours Of rain, sprinted away with his semi-final heat of the 100 meters today in the good time of i0.4 seconds before Q crowd of ct least o6,000.
 Frank WykoR of Glendale, Cal. who just managed to finish third h tho quarter final yesterday was surprising second, beating out the speedy Hans etrandberg of Sweden.
 owens broke last ct the gun with WykoH leading the pack for 26 yards. Then the Ohio State negro, with the matchiess rhythm that has given him half c dozen records, be- gan to pull up. At the 50 meter mark l1e was fourth. He dropped back to fifth ct 7B yards and then let out Q notch and caught Wykoff ct the flfl- igh by barely c foot.
 Gave Him ovation
 The crowd gave him Q thunderous ovation.
 Among those eliminated wns Paul Haeni of Switzerland, generally con- sidered the best sprinter in Europe, Alan Pennington of Great Britain and the fast-starting Wijrand Bev- eren of Holland.
 Ralph Metcalfe Of the Marquette club, Q veteran Of the 1882 games at Los Angeles captured the second seIni-fnal Of the 100 meters in l0.d taking the lead ct the 66 yard mark and holding 1t through to the tape The powerfully built negro was Q full stride ahead of Martinus Ber- nardus OBendarp of Holland and Erich (Oid Man) Borchmcyer, Ger man veteran.
 His victory means that the United States, as in 1892, would have all three of its Sprinters in the final la- ter today.
 Americans Advance
 Just before the 100 meters seni' finaliSts took the track all three Americans 1vanced to the geni- finals in the 400 meters hurdles Glenn Hardin, the yellow-haireo worlds record holder from Green. wood, Miss. and Joseph Patterson Iron Man" of the naval academy truck team won their heats and Dale schofieid of Provo, Utah, took a second.
 PhlIIiplnes' Racer Best
 The best heat time in the 40t meters was turned in by Migue White of the Philippines who notchec 63.4 seconds in ths third heat witt John Wilfred Loaring of Canada second. Hardin led Willie Kuerter of Germany to the tape in 63.9, wei over his worlds record of 5o6 in tht sixth and last lIeat. Patterson turned in 64.4 in defeating thC highly regarded Lavenas of Argen' tinc.
 Other qualifiers included Josei Kovacs of Hungary who von tht first heat in 63.7 from Jules Bos. mans of Belgium, Mott Brock ol Germany who led Schofield in 54.f and Johan K. Areskoug of Sweden 1 who beat sylvio Padilha of Brazi in 53.0.
 The day started dismally witt torrents of rain falling. Tarpaulin! were dragged out to cover the low places in the field. The stands fillet much slower than on the past tWt days. Howevsr when Fuehrer Adol Hitler arrived shortly before il a. m there were enough spectators in thu bowl to make 1t echo with "Heil' after "1eil."
 Hammer ThrOwers While the track events were beinl started, the hammer throwers werI whirling in their seven foot circle Before the event had beer finall! decided, Erwin Blask of German! made a strong bid for first place b! breaking one of the oldest interna tional records on the books, Mat Mc0rath's l70 feet. 6 inch throw ii the Olympic games of 1Slc. Blasl catapauIted the iron ball l00 fee c 62-o4 inches.
 The rain dtonned q few minutes