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gold medal to pace one-two-three
American sweep of the event.
AS the American contingents in
Wembley Stadium and in the En-
pire Exposition poolhouse roared IN
approval, the red white and blue
banners were raised four more times.
The other swimming final almost
brought another American sweep.
Ris of Iowa splashed to a record
breaking victory in the 10O-meter
free style followed by Alan Ford
of Yale in second place and Keith
Carter of Purdue in fourth. Alex
Jany. the famed French champion,
wound up in fifth place. Ris was
clicked in 57.3 seconds, two-tenths
of a second better than the existing
standard.
Cochran First U. S. Winner.
Cochran, of the Los Angeles Ath-
letic Club, captured the first Amerl-
can gold medal in track and field,
and he did it in record-breakine
fashion, The former Indiana Uni
versity ace, won the 40O-meter
hurdles by five yards in Sill seconds,
eight-tenths of a second under the
standard he and Rune LARSON OF
Sweden established yesterday.
LARSON could do no better than
finish third today, trailing Duncan
White, an unknown from Ceylon,
who took the silver medal.
Dick Ault of Missouri gave the
United States an unexpected three
points by winning fourth position.
Then came the most dramatic
moment so far for the American
forces. billiard, the great colored
hurdler from Baldwin Wallace who
couldn't make the team in his
specially, equalled Eddei Tolan's
OLYMPIC record of 1913 seconds to
win the 1O0-meter dash by a nose
over Barney Ewell of Lancaster, Pa.
Mel Patton, the Southern Cali
fornia flash, came in disappoint-
ing fifth behind Panama's Lloyd
Labeach and Great Britain's Alan
McCorquodale.
Another colored luminary, Steele
of San Diego State, came home with
the last gold medal of the day for
Uncle Sam by taking the broad
Jump with leap of Is feet 8 inches.
Herb Douglas of Pittsburgh and
Lorenzo Wright of Wayne finished
third and fourth behind T. Bruce
of Australia to help the United
States rack up II points in the
event.
McLane Breaks Mark.
The final record breaking per-
Torrance by an American was &C
complished by Jimmy McLane. the
sensational 17-year-old distance
swimmer from Andover Academy
and Akron, Ohio. McLane clipped
2.3 seconds off the Olympic mark
to win his heat of the 400-meter
free style swim in minutes, 42.2
seconds.
Austria, Hungary and Sweden an
nexed the other three gold medals
today while Holland expected one
as a result of Mel van Vliets rec
d-shattering performance in the
semifinals of the 200-meter breast
stroke
H. Baume of Austria, won the
upmen's javelin with an Olympic
record throw of 149 feet. 6 inches
And it was in this event that the
disappointing American women's
squad finally came through with its
first points. After all three Amer
lean women had been eliminated in
the 100-meter trials. Dorothy bod.
son of Mundelein, ILL.,. scored three
points by winding up fourth. with
1877 feet 71a inches.
Hungary Wins Hammer Throw.
Hungary's Irmy Nemeth won the
hammer throw final with toss Of
1873 feet, liz inches. and Sweden:
A. Ljunggren took first in the
so ,00O-meter road walk, only flna
today in which Uncle Sam failec
to score. Ljunggren was timed II
hours, 41:52.
In the hammer, Bob Bennett Of
Brown 176 it., 81 inches) and Sam
FELTON, of Harvard 1862 inch), gave
America seven points with thirc
and fourth places.
Miss van Vliet was caught in 2:5I
today. four tenths of second less