Evening star., 1948-08-04
Olympic Mark Is Made
In 1879 Victory; Scott
Second, Dixon Third
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seconds.
Routavaar captured the mems
javelin throw with toss OF 22f
feet e1z inches. DR.. Steve Seymour
of Los Angeles placed second or
221 feet 6 inches and J. Varszegi ol
Hungary was third with 2l9 feet
912 inches.
| Martin Biles, University of Cali
fornia instructor, wound up in sixth
place with 213 feet, inches. He
led the qualifiers into the finals
with 222 feet Z inch. but unde,
Olympic rules that effort did not
carry over into the finals.
Bob Likins of San Jose State Col
lege, third American in the javelin
finished eighth with 2ll feet 7
inches.
1t was Finland's first victory OF
the games. Seymours second posi-
ton was the best ever achieved
by the United States in this Euro
pean- n-dominated event.
Three in 400 Meter Second Round.
Nal Whitfield, Air Force sergeant
from Ohio State who won the 300
meter championship, took both his
first and second round heats in the
4O0-meter dash, an event which will
be concluded tomorrow.
Whitfield won his first-round test
in 48.3 seconds and the second in
48 fiat. There was no competition
either time He contented himself
with coasting home.
The second heat in the second
round went to Arthur Wint OF
Jamaica, who duplicated his first
round time of ATT.
Herb McKenley, the favorite from
Jamaica, took the third heat in 48
fiat, also under wraps, leading
George Guida of Villanova by a
step. The first three finishers in
each heat qualified for tomorrow's
semi finals. But Guida had to come
from far back to move into qualify
ing territory.
Dave Bolen of Colorado, the third
American 400-meter man, won the
fourth and last heat of the second
round but only by narrow margin.
His time was 48 fiat.
Gehrmann Qualities In $500.
CnI ~ Nf c
qualified nicely in the first heat of
the 1,500-meter run, in which Len
mart Strand of Sweden, rated the
worlds best, finished at the side of
Erik JorgeSen of Denmark.
Gehrmann was 3 yards back, run
ming easily and looking over his
shoulder at the fourth man, Hol-
lands F.. A. De Ruy,er The first
three in each of four heats qualified
for the finals Strands winning
time was 3:542
Glen Eischen of Washington
State was shut out in the second
1,500-meter heat, finishing sixth, SIS
yards back of Wilt Slijkhuis of
Holland, who won in 1884.
Eischen, a big. powerful runner
was unfortunate in that he couldn't
get to the pole at the start and was
showed outside most of the way. He
was close to the leaders until the
last lap, when he faded
The surprise of the third heat was
the scratching of CASTOR Ref of
Belgium, who won the 5000 meters
Henri Eriksson of Sweden won that
heat in 1888.
Sink Is Shut Out.
Roland Sink of Southern Cali
fornia was shut out in the fourth
heat despite a brave last-lap sprint
which landed him in fourth place
Gunar Bergkvist of Sweden won it
in 3:51.8, with Marcel Hansenne OF
France second. K. Vefling, who ran
for the University of California all
spring but now wears Norways COL
ors, was sixth
American girls continued to get
pushed around by their stronger
faster European sisters. Both United
States entries in the shot put failed
to reach the finals.
The best that Mrs. Frances
Kaszubski, 32-year old Cleveland
secretary. could do was 81 feet
IA inches, placing her 18th, just
back of the IL qualifiers. Mrs.
Dorothy Dodson of Mundelein, ILL.,,
was farther back with 36 feet
53L4 inches.
Micheline Ostermeyer, the cur
vaceous French girl who won the
discus, led the shot put qualifiers
with 43 feet IA inches.
In the women's broad Jump. the
United States managed to send one
OF its three entries into the finals.
Emma Reed of Nashville, Tenn,
with a leap of II feet inches, was
just under the qualifying distance
of II feet AZ inches.
However, only 10 girls made the
required distance, so the American
was passed on to the finals. Lillian
Young of Chicago barely missed the
first IL with jump of II feet
inches. Jean Walraven of North
Olmstead, Ohio, was not far behind
with II feet.
World Record for Dutch Girl.
Mrs. Blankers-Koen, golden haired
Dutch housewife, clipped a tenth of
Ia second off her own world record
in winning the 80-meter hurdles,
her second championship of the
games.
The world mark of 11.3 seconds
originally was set by Claudia Tes-
toni of Italy, at Garmisch -Parten-
kirchen, Germany. in 1899 and tied
by Mrs. Blankers-Koen at Amster-
dam in 1912.
Mrs. Bankers -Koen, who previ-
ously won the >women's 100-meter
dash, is we'll on her way to eclipsing
the performance of Americas Babe
Didrikson-now Mrs. George Zah-
arias-Who won two olympic titles
and placed second in the high jump
at Los Angeles in 1882.
Passes Up Broad Jump.
Mrs. Blankers-Koen also is entered
in the high jump and the relay,
giving her a chance for two more
frSt-place medals. She withdrew