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Show YANKEES SHOW HEELS AT ETj Athletic Stars Set Impossible Impossi-ble Pace at Interallied Games. PERSHING STADIUM. Tuesday, July 1. (By the Associated Press.) Earl Eby and M. P- Spink, both of Chicago, fin- ' ished first and second in the -iOOlmetcr j dash in the interallied games here today. J Wilton of New Zealand was third, the j time being 50 seconds flat. William Tay- loi and James Humphries, two other! Americans, finished the same way in the : broad jump. Moreaux of France won third place. The winning jump was 3.14 : meters. j In the final of th 20'1-meter hurdles, won by Robert I. Simpson, rhe world's; record undoubtedly would have been broken except for the fact that the third j hurdle was misplaced, throwing the run- , ners off their stride. Simpson, with Wil- j liam 10. Sylvester and .Meredith House, ! who finished second and third, respective- J ly, led from the start and finished easily. France again demonstrated her fencing ! supremacy today by winning the majority : of the eight sword trials. A merit -a and France today qualified ! three men in the poie vault and in the j high jump. Two Italians and one Austra- ; lian remain in the latter event, England's ' two entries beinsr shut out. In tne leathei weight boxing event, Fun- j dy, American, beat Hallam, Australian, ! on points in a ten-round bout. Robert Legendre of the I'niversity of ; Georgetown won the pentathlon. l.ieu- ; tenant K. L. Vidal of Camp Humphries. ; Ya., was second, and Andre of France, third. .Legendre competed in every event or' the pentathlon, winning first place in the L' 00-meter dash and the running broad : jump and second , in. the three other' events. Yidal took one first, two sec- ( onds and one third. Norman Ross of California won the , swimming championship for America by i taking first place in every individual race j in whkh he started. In the various swim- ( ming events, the American team took Ul j points. Australia 14, France 5 and Italy 2. , Ross, with his usual ease, won the 300- ' meter free style swim in 12 minutes 24 ; seconds. Ross now has five victories to ; his credit, having won the 100-meter free ; style, 100-meter back stroke, 40'.'-meter 1 free style, SOO-meter free style and 15ff- meter free styie races. He also swam the last lap for the American relay team and ' scored two of three goals for" the Amer-; ican water p.-lo team. Australia won the SOO-meter relav swim ' with the American team second, tne Iral- ; ians third and the French fourth. The time was 10 minutes 4-5 seconds. With the Americans in third rosition in the ' tr.ird lap. Ross had a hopelos task to win, but succeeded in overtaking the Italian . competitor. In the M'0-rr.eier free ?ty!e swim which' ""ss won, I.ongworth of Australia was second and Hard wick cf Australia third. |