Show AMERICAN SKATERS UPSET OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS 0 1 U c x I 4 ric 4 I Yank Teams Now Favored to Win Vin Games at Placid Dartmouth Youth Defeats World Champ 1 N. N Y Ace Tr Triumphs OLYMPIC STADIUM I LAKE PLACID Feb 5 Jack Jack Shea Lake Placid boy bo- today flashed home five fhe yards ards ahead of the field to add the meter 1500 meter Olympic speed peed skating championship to the meter meter title he won yesterday Sh Shea a flashed d home horse to his double triumph In 2 minutes 57 51 5 seconds sec five live yards ards in front of Alex I I Hurd speediest of the three Canadians Canadians Cana Cana- Canai i who wiped out all foreign I opposition In the preliminary heats I Ito I Ito I to qualify with three members of I the United States team Two Canadians loll followed owed Hurd hued across the line Bill Logan Loan and Frank Stack Dominion speed peed champion In that order Ra Ray Mar Mur ra ray of New York fifth lUth and Herb Taylor Talor also of New York sixth Luth Headed b by Shea the three Americans Amer Amer- 1105 slightly spread out held the lead as the pack shot Into the final I lap laD and increased the pace to o a wild sprint The formation that held the Canadians Canadians Ca n slightly back broke on the turn coming into the stretch steele as Hurd got ot past Murray and Taylor Talor Shea was streaking streaking- into the stretch however and Hurd had no chance to catch him The best lie could do was to pick up a few feu- yards but Shea's second title in two days the greatest showing ever er made ade by an American winter Olympic athlete never really wa wain was in danger Taylor Talor slipped on the last turn and fell hampering Stack She Shears Shea's time 2 minutes 57 10 s seconds was good for the course swept by a sharp cold wind with witha a touch of snow in the air The world record is held by Charles Mathiesen of Norway who covered ered 1500 meters against time In Irs 4 10 In Oslo In 1914 Clas of Norway also has been credited with that time The Thc of the Norwegians Nor Finns and Swedes with the American style of racing man against man instead of racing racing- against Um time and the defeats of or their champions and record holders hold ers Bernt Evensen Ivar har Dalian- Dalian grud Michael 1 Ossian Blomquist Carl and Hans so decisively in all the speed peed races so far e have caused some disappointment in the forein delegations dele Some of or the Scandinavians lano have bave said the they will never race In the Untied Stiles States again a B By Edward J. J Neil Associated Press Correspondent LAKE PLACID N. N Y Feb 5 The 5 The 1932 winter Olympics arc are just one day old and yet ct the village iI e of Lake Placid alread already is groggy from the the theft t sur surprises p r i s e s and nd i thrills o of the first a. a of these international lionel Honal struggles ever staged in the thea United States JJ In the fir first t place not the even most f Iti allt enthusiastic of or nil the natives nati had any f any my idea that the thc fa- fa a- a mcd speedsters of Norway Finland and Sweden with records of conquests con LJ quests in past 1 Olympics victories victories victories' p I i I over time form experience and the FEE world at large could stand so beaten as they do toda today Yet on the record of the first day of the Olympics stand the amazing conquest of Irving Jaffee a bo boy from the sidewalks of New York who ho learned his skating in a two four rink on second Fifty street while the Scandinavians were living Jiving on steel blades outdoors and the triumph of J Jack ck Shea a local bo boy who grew up upon upon on the ice of Placid arid and Mirror lakes just down the road CHAMP IP I Shea a sophomore won I the meters final and defeated by five fhe full yards ards Bernt Evensen world l champion record holder supposedly invincible at that distance Jaffee slim Wall street brokers broker's clerk clerk was even more impressive in inI the meters final spotting all but butone butone one of the field a dozen yards in the I last lap and still beating them to the finish line Trail Trailing n in fifth place a lap from home flew through a furious snowstorm passed all but Eddie Murphy Mur Mur- Iphy phy his teammate from Chicago and th then n nipped him by inches at the tane taDe In that group roup at hi was I Ivar a r I Ballangrud rud of Norway Olympic champion at nt the distance in 1928 holder hold er of the worlds world's record Jaffee came nowhere near equalling Ivar was in fifth place badly beaten at the finish U. U S. S FAVORED A Overnight the United States became an outstanding favorite fl to sweep the games although the hockey situation was not brightened b by Can Canadas Canada's das da's to l overtime o victory over the while Germany was v beating Poland by the alT S score Toda Today the 1500 meters trials and final were scheduled with Shea Ra Ray Murray Murra Lloyd Llod Guenther and Herbert Taylor facing acing the same ame foreign con con- with growing confidence I I 1 1 I |