Evening star., 1948-08-08
Relay -Four Runs
To Easy Victory
In 1900 Race
Yonk Triumph in 400
Tossed Out; Marathon
Is Won by Argentine
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| hurdeS, the lOU-metef daSn ana lne
200-meters. a performance unpar-
alleled in the annals of the games.
Minutes after the last event had
been concluded, workmen began rip
ping up the grass alongside the
Olympic running track, the first
move in Transforming the stadium
back into dog racing plant. Only
the grass infield will be employed
for Olympic events scheduled in
the stadium next week.
Americas swimmers also wound
up their competition, with the men
completing a grand slam in their
division and the women edging out
Denmark for their unofficial team
titlel
Joe Verdeur of Philadelphia won
the mems 200-meter breaststroke
championship, and set new Olym-
pic record of 1898.
Ann Curtis of San Francisco also
broke the Olympic mark when she
captured the womens 400-meter
freestyle in 5:178.
Jimmy McLane of Akron, Ohio,
completed the American sweep for
the men by taking the 1,500-meter
freestyle, although his time OF
19:185 was short of the record.
Behind Verdeur in the breast
stroke final came Keith Carter of
Purdue and Bob Sohl Of Michigan
to give the United States another
clean sweep of single event.
California Crew Victor.
CALIFORNIA; crew won its semi
final test and moved into the finals
Of the eight-oared rowing competi-
ton, but John B. Kelly, jr., of Phila-
delphia missed his bid for the single
sculls title won by his father in 1920.
Suffering from a head cold, the
former winner of the diamond sculls
bowed to Eduardo Risso Of Uru-
quay in the semi-finals.
Disqualification Of the American
sprint relay team by the track and
field officials brought the first dis
cordant note to the games, which
have played to an official total of
$40, 900 admissions in 10 terrific days
and nights. e.
The American quartet Of Barney
Ewell, Lorenzo Wright, Harrison
Dillard and Mel Patton had been
expected to win the final without
being pushed, and it lived up to its
advance notices. billiard, the Olym-
pic 100-meter champion. gained
fully eight yards on his rival. Ken
Jones of Britain, in the third lap.
Patton, the 20o-meter king. had
no difficulty holding that margin
in the final sprint to the wire.
Disqualification Big Blow.
The first intimation the American
contingent got that something had
gone wrong was when they hoisted
the British flag over the end of the
stadium in token of victory. The
crowd. of course. raised the roof.
This was the first time a British
track win had been signalled since
the games opened.
Then came the announcement.
The Americans were disqualified,
and Britain's four of Alastair Nc
Corquodale, Jack Gregory, Ken
Jones and Jack Archer had won in
Alb seconds. The American run
ners gathered angrily about the
officials in the infield and argued
for long minutes.
Finally they saw it was no use,
and the four walked dejectedly to-
gether out the main entrance just
as the band began to play God
Save the King" in token of the
British victory.
An unnamed official had charged
that Ewell, in passing the baton
to Wright at the end of the first
lap, had run past the 20-meter
zone in which it is permissible to
make the exchange. Ewell said
later he was certain he had not
done SO. If he did, it was not
noticeable from the press box.
! No Formal Protest Likely.
Patton. acting as captain of the
American group, asked to be per-
mitted to speak to the official who
had made the damaging ruling, but
was refused. The British winners
were placed in an awkward position
We do not feel very happy about
it," McCorquodale said.
The sadedst part of 1t was that
the American runners plainly did
not need any unfair advantage to
win
| There is small chance that Avery
Brundage. head of the American
Olympic group, will make an issue
of it, though.
The vast crowd had looked for.
ward to seeing two tingling relay
finals. AS things turned out, il
didn't see even one. The l,600.
meter, which had promised to pro.
duce an epic race between Americs