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finished eighth and fourteenth, re-
spectively.
Meanwhile, Lu Vale won his penul-
innate 400-meter trial in All seconds
while Williams was one-tenth Of a
second slower.
Harold Smallwood, the third Sched-
uled American starter. who qualified
in yesterdays preliminaries, was in a
hospital undergoing an operation for
appendicitis.
Americas prospects in the strenuous
decathlon championship, meanwhile,
shot skyward as Bob Clark of San
Francisco Jack Parker of Sacramento,
Calf, and Glenn Morris, Fort Collins
(Colo) automobile salesman and world
all-around record holder, finished in
that order after the 100-meter sprint
and the broad jump tests.
Lash Folds on Eighth Lap.
Lash folded suddenly and COM
pletely on the eighth lap after alter
mating in setting the pace with the
Finnish trio-Hoeckert, Lehtinen and
Salminen-and Murakoso for the first
seven laps.
Taking advantage of the Americans
collapse, six rivals rushed past him
during the eighth lap and thereafter
the Indianan never was a contender,
finishing next to last nearly 200
meters behind Hockert.
A probable Finnish sweep, such as
occurred in the 10,000-meter whirl,
was prevented when Salminen spilled
at the turn of the next to last lap,
finishing sixth.
Zamperini Kicked the entire last
lap, overtaking three rivals and almost
overhauling Humberto Cerati of Italy,
who finished seventh.
Among the 16 starters, the only men
Lash beat were Aubrey Reeve of
Great Britain, who dropped out after
five laps, and Bror HellStrom Of Swe-
den, who trailed in the fifteenth and
last place
Clark retained the Decathlon lead
through the shotput event, heaving
the ball 1858 meters al feet 1872
inches), adding 685 points and making
his total for the first three events
2,534 points.
Morris, winner Of the shotput with
b toss of 1410 meters (46 feet 1884
inches, moved into second place as
Parker dropped notch to third. The
colored all-around star gained 826
points to boost his aggregate to 2,436.
Parker's best effort was 1882 meters
(43 feet 4 1884 inches), good for 767
points and total of 2,410.
Akilles Jarvinen of Finland was in
fourth place with 1925 points and
Armin Guehl of Switzerland, fifth,
with 1924 points.
Clark captured his trial in the sprint
In 109 seconds, the fastest time ever
made in olympic decathlon history,
and cleared 7.62 meters (25 feet) in
his first broad-jumping effort. This
jump also bettered anything pre-
vious in Olympic all-around compe-
tition.
Relay Changes Planned.
Meanwhile, Lawson Robertson, head
track coach, announced he is recon-
sidering the line-ups for the 400 and
1900 meter relay events due to the
development of foreign threats.
Robertson forecast that he probably
will run Jesse Owens, Ohio State
colored triple Olympic champion"
at anchor in the 400 relay and prob
ably Lu Vale in the 1000.
I'VE will decide definitely on the
relays tonight" said Robertson, "but
we now are inclined to run Owens
because latest reports indicate the
Germans, as well as the Dutch, will
give us the keenest competition in the
sprint relay. The German quartet
was clocked in 40.7 seconds in a
time trial and is likely to be the
toughest"
The American combination of Rob-
ert Kiesel, Emmett TOPPING, Hector
Dyer and Frank Wykoff set the
Olympic and world sprint relay record
Of 40 seconds fiat at Los Angeles four
years ago.
Robertson indicated that Sam
Stoller of Cincinnati and Wykoff,
three time Olvropjan ora corto;p to