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was won by Norman Read of
New Zealand in 4 hours 80 min
uteS 42.8 seconds, a popular vic
tory with the Australian fans
AS he crossed the finish line.
Read broke into a dog trot and
waved. It was about is minutes
before the second-place Russian,
Evgeni Maskenskov. struggled to
the finish line. grimacing in
apparent pain.
Reach 800 Finals
Tom Courtney, the former
Fordham half-miler from Liv-
ingston, N. j.; Pittsburgh's Arnie
Sowell and Lon Spurrier Of
Delano. Calf, sped into the 800
meter finals Monday by breezing
through the Examinations.
Courtney and Spurrier finished
IL in one heat in 1885 and
Sowell won the other in 1850 as
Jim Bailey, the Australian who
broke the four-minute mile bar
rier as a student at Oregon, was
eliminated with a surprising
seventh-place finish.
Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen,
who figured to be a contender,
withdrew to save himself for the
1,500-meter Olympic mile) COM
petition that starts Thursday.
Britain won a fight today to
increase the number of 300
meter sprint finalists from six to
eight. The British had Mike
Farrell in one semiflnal and
Derek tombstone and Mike Raw
son in the other. Farrell and
tombstone qualified.
Counting the high-jump vic
tory by Charles Dumas of Los
Angeles in yesterdays compete
ton, the United States mems
track and field forces had won
five of the first seven gold medals
with Russia and New Zealand
each taking one. The other
medal in track and field had
gone to Czechoslovakian wom-
an in the discus.
America had no entry in the
lightweight weightlifting, which
was taken by Russia's Igor
Rybak, who broke the old record
set by Tommy Kono of the
United States in 1852. Rybak
lifted a total of 8271a pounds.
Another Russian was second.
America had won the bantam
weight and featherweight classes
yesterday with record perform
ances.
In the midleweight weight
lifting, Bogdanovskii set an Olym-
pic record of 925.86 total pounds.
The old record of 88l pounds
belonged to the man he upset,
George, a 27-year-old Ohio
State graduate from Akron.
Ohio, who also bettered his for
mer mark with 900 pounds.
In the women's 100-meter-dash
eliminations, Betty Cuthbert of
Australia set a new Olympic
record of ia seconds, one-tenth
OF a second better than the pre-
vious mark. Isabelle Daniels
finished second in that heat and
was third in the Semifinals, to
make the grade into the finals.
Bob Richards Qualities
Two other American girls, Mae
Faggs and Lucinda Williams,
were eliminated in the heats.
Also eliminated was Shirley
Strickland De La Hunty Of Aus
tralia. the world record holder.
Rev. Bob Richards Of La Verne,
Calf, Bob Gutowski of La Jolla,
Calf, and George Mattos of
Santa Cruz, Calf, cleared the
pole vault qualifying height with
ease to go into Mondays final.
Americans did much better
than expected in the walk. In
addition to a seventh by Wein-
acker. Elliott Denman Of New
York was 18th and Leo Sjogren
of Brooklyn was 18th.
Jose Torres, American light
middleweight from Puerto Rico,
and Pearce Lane, a Big Rapids,
Mich, welterweight, advanced
to the quarter finals of the box
ing competiJix4., ~"' we the
first United States team mem
bers to compete.
Lane. the 25-year-old ALL
Army champion for the past two
years dropped his opponent in
the first round with a crashing
right to the head. Tovar took an
'eight-count.
Light-middleweight Jose Tor
res Of Puerto Rico, the only
other American boxer to COM
pete thus far, also made the
quarterfinals. outpointing Peter
Read Of Australia.
Italy tonight defeated defend
ing champion France to win the
team foils championship in
Olympic fencing. The United
States finished surprising
fourth. Hungary finished third.
The United States was without
a victory in the flnal-losing all
three matches with Italy. France
and Hungary, longtime holders
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