Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — POWERFUL U. S. TEAM GATHERS TRACK HONORS [ARTICLE]

POWERFUL U. S. TEAM GATHERS TRACK HONORS

Antwerp, Aug. 16.—America’s powerful and well balanced track and field team continued to gath-; er team honors/in the second day I of the seventh Olympiad. It out-' classed all the other nations’ com-[ binations, but its members were not strong enough individually to win > all the first place honors, particularly in the classic ancient pentathlon ,in which the Finnish Star, E. Lehtonen proved to be the best all around Athlete. Loomi* Seta Record. In addition to the Americans scoring the greatest number of points, the only world record of the day was made by Frank Loomis of the Chicago A. A., in the 400 meter hurdles with 54 seconds flat, a full second better than - the time made by Bacon in the London Olympics in 1908. In both the hurdles and the 100 meters dash, four of the six finalists were American athletes, of whom three ran first in the hurdles and two first in the 100-meters. Protest Recalled. A majority of the experts at the finish line of the TOO meter event, but not the officials, insisted that J. V. Schbltz of the University of Missouri, was third instead of fifth, as officially placed, but a protest entered by the Americans was withdrawn when it was realized that there was no going behind the official decision.

U. S. Has 43 Points. In* the other events, the heats before the semi-finals in the 80Q meter run, all the Americans retained places, but it was generally conceded by the American runners that the South African, B. G. D. Rudd, has a sure first in the finaL The American performances today netted them a total of 43 points in the track and field events —17 in the hurdles, 15 in the 100 meters dash and 11 in the pentathlon—out of a possible 66 for the day’s events. ’ . Sweden, which gained only onefifth place today to add to yesterday’s one sixth place, has only a three point track total, but Finland, by the 19 points won in the javelin throw yesterday and the 10 in today’s pentathlon has 29, and is second to the Americans.