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Show UNITED STATES WINS OLYMPICS I ATHLETES FROM FINLAND ME SECOND PUCE American Team Wins Total of 210 Points: Nearest Rival 105 SWEDEN AND ENGLAND , RUN SECOND AND THIRD Norwegian Army Captain Believed Be-lieved Winner of Decathlon Over Yankee ANTWERP, Aug. 23 The Olympic! athletic events In the stadium closed! thl afternoon with the Amcncan ath- letcs so far in tho lead in the point 1 wioring that they were lho winners by a large margin. The closinR contests were held in the rain with only u handitil of BpSO-tators BpSO-tators present. Following ure the final un-official scores of the stadium athletics, the Held and track cxents: America. 210 points; I liiiand, 105; Sweden, England, 'J-; trance, 35; Itab'i U8i S"Uth Africa, 24. Canada,1 10 Norway, 10; Denmark, 3. Estho-1 ma, s; New Zealand. 5: HHgiunt, S; Australia, o; CsoCho-Slavakai 3, Hoi-; I. nil J, and Luxembourg, 1. RhliAl R 1. The 1600 metre lelay race, next toj the last stadium event", was won by IShffland, with South Africa second.1 France third, America fourth and; Bweden fifth. Sweden protested the. race, claiming it wus started from aj wrong point of the track. The Olym-j 1 pic committee Is considering the pro-i test. The American team c onsisted ot , tGcorge S Schiller Los Angeles A. C., j. K. Meredith, New York A. C; I George S. Bretnalli OomeiJ college, la , and Frank J. Shea, V. S navy. The . 'time of the winning team was 3 mln-l lltes 32 1-5 seconds CROSS 1 hi vn;v. The final heat of the individual cross country run of nearly ten Kilometers Kilo-meters was won by Norm!, Finland. 1 1 n 7 minutes lo seconds. Iluchmnn, Sweden, was second; Lumatainen, Fln-I li-nd third; J. Wilson. England.: ! fourth. A. Heg-irty, England, fifth,! land Oonqulener, Italy, sixth. In the team cross country run at the same distance) Finland with ten ' points was first England, with 21' points, was second; Sweden, with 33 'points, third America, with 36 points, fourth, France with 40 points, fifth, and Belgium with 50 points, sixth. IMERI4 W SECOND. Although It has not vet been officially offi-cially announced. It is understood that Captain llelge Loveland, of the Norwegian Nor-wegian army, has been confirmed asi tne winner of the decathlon, with Bru-1 :tus K. Hamilton, of the University of j (Missouri, In second place. |