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Show MEDALS PRESENTED TO TRACK WINNERS BY BELGIAN KING ANTWERP, Aug 30 (By the Associated As-sociated Press i King Albert of Bel-glum Bel-glum presented the medals and other awards won at the seventh Olympiad to the winners in the athletic, swimming, swim-ming, rowing events at the stadium this afternoon. It would have been necessary to use a large basket for the American.s share alone of the statuettes and medals. For example, out of about 100 awards for athletics, the share of the L nlted States' representatives whh nearly forty. The few score Americans present at the principles made up In noisy cheers what they lacked In number. They gae King Albert a cheer such as royalty probably never received before, it being an lAnirican yell ending with 'Albert, Albert, Albert. " Brand Whitlock. American ambas-BadOr, ambas-BadOr, was in tlm stand with the king The king presonally presented the medals to winners of first places. The crown prince, Leopold, ga- out thoso awarded to seconds and the! young Prince Charles to thu thirds. ; j o |