Evening star., 1951-03-04
|AHIesey Wins Hurdle
In Pan American, But
u. 5. Is Far Behind
BY the Asseeiafed Press

BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 3.-The
Pan American Games reached the
halfway mark today and the big
Argentine squad of some 500 ath-
letes continued to pile up points
over 10 rival republics and CO.
lonies, including the United
States.
On the fifth day Of the first
great sports carnival for the
Western Hemisphere, Argentina
is comfortably ahead in the un-
official point tabulation with 473
The United States, apparently
safe in second place with 405
points run up by its squad Of 1876
athletes, has five more days to
try and catch the home folks.
Dick Attlesey, the world record
holder in both, the 110-meter and
120-yard high hurdles. gave the
United States one major victory
in track today as he sped home
in the 110-meter event in IA sec
onds, two strides ahead of his
field. The next three came to
the tape in q blanket finish.
u. S. Bows in Two Events.
The victory for Attlesey before
IS 900 in the River Plate Stadium
came after the U. S. forces suf-
fered defeat in finals for both
the mems jayelin and the woln-
ems 80-meter hurdles.
Tossing the javelin into a gusty
wind, little Ricardo Heber of Ar
gentina shattered his own South
American record to capture this
event from DR.. Stephen Seymour
Of Long Beach, Calf.
Both men broke Heber's Old
mark, but Heber had a surpris-
ing toss of 223 feet, 43s inches.
The best Seymour could do was
220 feet. one inch. Heber's old
mark was 214 feet. 111s inches.
Chile grabbed honors in the 30
meter women's hurdles as Eliana
Gaete Lazo barely nosed out her,
teammate, Marion Huber, in 11.o.
Evelyn Lawler, the United States
champion from Gadsden, Ala,
never got going after breaking
stride at the first hurdle and
wound up sixth. Nancy Phillips
Of Phillipsburg, N. j., the Man
haitian socialite, was close third.
United States Team Trailing.
However, Argentina's big, tai
ented squad piled up points galore
over the United States and 18
other rivals. The unofficial box
score at the end Of the days
events gave Argentina almost an
insurmountable lead with 464
points. to 385 for the United States.
130 for Brazil, 1876 for Mexico ana
103 for Chile with the other re-
publics and colonies spread out
thinly.
The United States Army trio of
Capt. Guy Troy. st. Petersburg.
Fla, and Its. James Thompson,
Boise. Idaho, and Gail Wilson. San
Antonio. Tex, won the team
championship in modern pentath-
Ion. Wilson won the final event
of the five-day affair. the 1000
meters cross-country run.
It was a big Argentine day on
the shooting range as the host
.country's marksmen won the 800
meter free rifle team title and
Pablo Cagnasso took individual
honors. Cagnasso. with a score of
/ 900, beat out Arthur Jackson of
Brooklyn, N. Y. who had won two
other shooting titles here.
American Divers Score.
The United States hung up a
|cne-two victory in women's s.
meter diving with Mary Frances
Cunningham of Lafayette, Ind,
nosing out Patricia Keller Nc
Cormick of Los Angeles. Miss
Cunningham scored 1898. Miss
McC Cormick, 128.083.
Nicaragua stopped the United
States, 9-8. and Venezuela beat
Cuba, 4-3, in IA innings, to throw
the baseball championship into a
four-way tie for first place. The
United States, Cuba, Venezuela
and Mexico are tied with Identical
records Of three games won and
one lost,