Evening star., 1952-07-23
billiard, StanfieId
Tie Records in
Hurdles, 200
AshenfeIter und Young
EstobIish SteepIechose
And JoveIin Standards
BY the Associated Press

HELSINKI, July 90. - The
greatest record breaking spree of
the 18th Olympics was staged
today as the United States scored
a grand slam in the 200 meters,
hung up new records in the $1,000
meter steeplechase and javelin,
and equalled old marks in the
110-meter hurdles and the 200.
A Brazilian set a world hop,
step and jump record, Australian
women set new marks in the 30
meter hurdles and the broad
jump, and Russian woman set
a new standard in the 100 meters.
Andy Stanfield of New York,
former Seton Hall College sprint
er, won the 200-meter dash final
in 1928 American finish. Off
clals called for photographs to sep
arate the runners who came in
close behind Stanfield. His time
of 20.7 seconds equalled the Olym-
pic record.
Thane Baker Of the United
States was second ana Jim Gath
ers of the United States third.
Both were clocked at 20.8 sec
onds.
Baker is a Kansas State Col
lege athlete; Gathers, former
Brooklyn schoolboy star, is in the
United States Air Force.
The Olympic record which Stan
field equalled was set in the 1886
games at Berlin by Jesse Owens.
Young Skaters Record.
Cy Young of Modesto, Calf,
shattered the Olympic javelin
record with a heave of 242 feet
0.79 inches. This wiped out Fin
lands Olympic mark, 238 feet
inches by Matti Jarvinen. Young
made the new record on his Sec
ond trial in the final round.
Young's throw gave him the
temporary lead in the final round,
in which six finalists each get six
Ithrows. Bill Miller of the United
States Navy was in second place
with 237 feet 1892 inches.
| Still another Olympic mark was
equalled when Harrison billiard of
Cleveland won his trial heat in
the 11O-meter high hurdles in 1879
seconds.
Steeplechase Mark for U. S.
Horace Ashenfelter, former Penn
State college runner form Glen
Ridge, N. j., shattered the Olympic
record for the 3,0OO-meter steeple-
chase when he won his trial heat
in the remarkable time of 8
minutes 81 seconds.
AShenfelter turned in this time
Just a few minutes after Vladimir
Kazantsev Of Russia had come
IN with a record-shattered 8:58
performance. There is no official
world record listed for this even
of one mile and 1921 yards over
obstacles. The former Olympic
record was 9:03.8. set by Volmari
Iso- -Hollo of Finland.
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva of
Brazil won the hop. step and
Jump championship and in doing
so smashed his own listed world
record four separate times. His
best was So feet 2.59 inches. His
former mark was So feet $50
inches.
His four astounding leaps also
bettered the former Olympic rec
ord of So feet 5.93 inches set in
1886 at Berlin by Amato Tajima
of Japan.
Women Set Records.
Yvette Williams of Australia
made a new women's Olympic
broad Jump record of 20 feet 2.52
inches in the qualifying trials and
Shirley Strickland of Australia
won her trial heat in the women S
80-meter hurdles in II seconds,
breaking the Olympic record and
lequalling the world mark.
/ Maria Golubichnaja of Russia
also bettered the old Olympic
record when she won the final
heat Of the women's 100 meters
in Ill seconds.
billiard 10 Meters Ahead.
| billiard shot out ahead of the
field, taking every one of the 10
barriers in fawleSs form, to finish
nearly 10 meters ahead of Sergej
Popov of Russia.
The Olympic record was set in
1948 by Bill Porter of the United
States. That was the year that
Dillard. the greatest hurdler in
the world. failed in the final
American tryouts but went on to
win the Olympic 100 meters.
Jack Davis of Glendale. Calf,
the second American hurdler, won
his heat in IA seconds. He, too,
was nearly 10 meters in front of
S. Lorger of Yugoslavia.
| Art Barnard of Long Beach,
Calf, won the sixth and final heat
in 14.5 seconds.
Two men from each hurdles
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