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Show NORWEGIAN AND AMERICAN CLOSE Bitter Battle Fought to Determine Deter-mine Which Is Best All-round All-round Athlete A.VTWEP. P. Aug li. The title of the world's best all-round athlete lies I tonight between Brutus K Hamilton j of the University of Missouri, and 1 1 Captain iieige Lovelend of the Norwe- - gian army, -who were well ahead In I the Olympic decathlon. So few points 'separated them that B recount of the I points alloted will he necessary before be-fore the world officially knows which lis the b-tter man. but It appears that thi Norwegian fma 1 s'lght adv antage j in the ten events Whoever Is awarded the cup donat- ed by the late Russian emperor, md 1 which Jim Thorpe had to forfeit at Stockholm t. Weislander of Sweden in 1 1 .- ber.aus- of the chargt of piofes-slonallsm. piofes-slonallsm. there Is so little difference that both Hamilton and Eov eland may be Justly proud of their laurels MAKES NO E1BSTS I Although Loveland failed to score a single first, he made equally uooJ time with several others in the dashes and hla performances In the high .lump, pole vault, the 1,,'oo-meters and I the shot put and discus were so consistent con-sistent be obtained second, third or ; fourth. He thus apparently OUtpolnt-1 OUtpolnt-1 ed Hamilton, who won firs; in the shot 1 put and the 100 meters and did well In the broad Jump, the Javelin and discus, but got only seventh In the ! I .iOO-metors and eleventh In the high I Jump At the finish of the 1,600-meteif. I the tenth evenc in the two days Ha.mil-1 Ha.mil-1 ton fairly Staggered Into the arms of I friends and was as-tstcd off the field. EXCELLENT SHOW I V . In addition 10 Hamilton's bitter two day- battle to defeat Lovoland other American athletes made an excellent showing during a cold, raw eight-hotn ompetltion In the other events Six ; places for 21 points were captured In i the three finals today These consisted consist-ed of first and second In the 66 pound weight, third and firth In the 3 000-meter 000-meter walk and fifth and sixth in the hop, step and jump American four-man reams qualified for the two relay races, while K C. ' Bartlett. University of Oregon, and A R. Pope. University of Washington, j qualified for the discus final, with the third and fourth best throws ' Aside from Hamilton's exhibition the besl performances wera those o( Babe McDonald biggest man on th-team. th-team. If not on the entire IhSt, with h '.H pound weight, and the Kruy haired walker. Remer, who stuck with the fastest kind of walkers, the ltal-lon ltal-lon Frigerio and the Australian. Park-er Park-er 1 tpturlng third place in the 3,"00-rnetet 3,"00-rnetet s. As the result of today's wins. Amer-i Amer-i .1 g points total 17". unite than twice Iho total of any of the three neares: ( ompelitors w ho bunched as follown England, 67; Finland, 6 S Sweden, 63, not Including the decathlon. 00 |