Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-30
Cochran Duplicates
|Iarsson's SIG in
40O-Meter Hurdles
By Ted SHIFTS

| OLYMPIA STADIUM, Wempley,
England, July 3o.-Roy Cochran OF
the Los Angeles Athletic Club tied
a new Olympic record Of 51.9 Sec
onds for the 400-me+er hurdles
today only a few minutes after 1t
had been established in the semi
finals If the event at the 1948
games.
THE brilliant performance of the
29-year-old instructor at the Uni
versity Of Southern California fol-
lowed closely the record-breaking
triumph by larson of Sweden in
the first semjfinal heat.
In twice wipjng out the Olympic
record Of 50 seconds set by Glenn
Hardin of the United States in
1882. the two murders demonstrated
that the newly laid Olympic track
is lightning fast.
A crowd of $1,000 roared its ap-
proval Of the first record-smashing
in the track and field section of the
international sports carnival, re-
vived after lapse of a dozen years
U. S. High Jumper Erased.
Soon after Cochran completed his
sparkling performance, the United
States suffered its first serious re-
verse when Vern McGrew of Rice
Institute missed out in the high
Jump final at 6 feet 81 inches.
McGrew, winner of the event in
the final United States tryouts at
6 feet 81 inches, knocked the bar
of on his first try. ran under it on
his second, and hit it squarely on
his third and last.
George Stanich of the University
Of California at Los Angeles and
Dwight Eddleman of Illinois both
stayed in the running, but any
hope of an American sweep, duph-
eating the 1886 effort in the high
jump, was lost.
While the United States was
making its dominance felt on other
fronts, the distinction of setting an
Olympic swimming record fell
to an attractive Dutch girl, Mel Van
Vliet, who won her heat in the 200
meter (21872-yard breast stroke
in minutes, 544 seconds. The
old record was 3:01.9.
The United States basket ball
.eam, led by the University of Ken
tucky's Alex Groza, breezed past
Switzerland So to 81. Groza poured
10 points through the hoop.
The Philippines quint defeated
Iraq, 1o2 to 80; Czechoslovakia,
European champ, downed Peru,
$3.50; Uruguay trounced Britain,
69-17, and Korea shaded Belgian.
1927.
The water polo outfit dunked
Uruguay, 7 to 0.
On the red brick track at Wem-
bley stadium, before a crowd esti-
mated at $4,000, the feet Americans
enjoyed their expected successes.
Mel Patton of Southern Cali
fornia, Barney Ewell of Lancaster,
Pa, and Harrison billiard of Bald
wln-Wallace college all won their
first-round heats in the 100-meter
109.36 yarO dash and thus quail
fed for the second round.
billiard Wins in Breeze.
billiard took his heat by three
yards. without apparently pressing
in 1914 seconds, fastest time of the
preliminaries. Eweu was clicked
in 10.5 seconds and Patton In 106
seconds.
The United States trio Of spring.
board divers-Bruce Harlan of Ohio
State, Dr. Sammy Lee of Pasadena,
Calf. and Miller Anderson of Ohio
State. grabbed first, second and
fourth place in their preliminary
after the four compulsory dives.
Jeanne Wilson Lone Failure.
Wally Ris of Iowa, Keith Carter
of Purdue and Alan Ford of Yale
found little to disturb them in the
100-meter free style swim. Ris was
timed in 58.1 seconds, the same time
posted by Alex Jany, powerful
Frenchman who is the event favor
lite. Garter took his heat in 5S7
SeCOIloS anu COFQ, WORTH ItCoIQ
holder, did 592 seconds.
1t was only in women's swimming
that the United States march was
halted. Here Jeanne Wilson, Pur-
due alumnae of Chicago, failed to
make the grade In the 200-meter
(218.72 YARDS breaststroke.
The record in this event was
broken twice. First Eva Szekely of
Hungary lowered it to 3:022 before
Miss Van Vliet, a visitor to the
United States last summer, dropped
it still lower. Actually Miss Szekely
was the first to break an Olympic
record but she hadn't dried herself
on the pool rim before it was wiped
out.