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Show i IE f IETS I DEFEAT IN MILE American Champ Goes Down to Worst Defeat in Entire V j Career I.H AXTWEHP, Aug It. (By The As- H sotlated Press). English runners to-Bh to-Bh day dethroned the American star mile KH runner. Jole W. Ray. of the Illinois C.i In the 1.500 meters r t H Olympic punN U WjM the second most sensational fool race of th cnth ulymplad, Ixlne Just a little hort of the thrills of the MiO metres H All competitions today were held JHHfl In tl. 1 i'.i. c r . .'hi.-io.- somethlnK of a home-like atmosphere 7" They scored Impressively two firsts. a second ,ind a sixth place for sixteen "r point?, unc loss than the Americans. .fcy wh won one first, two thirds and llu our fifth for seventeen points. Swe- Mm, aE one second, one fourth and one fifth HK place for ten points TAKEN MRPRisi The big up-sel came in the running) nfe by A. G. Hill and P. J. Baker, both; Umm Englishmen, of Ray off his feet. While i Jj a few experts and trainers had ex- peeled Ray would have difficulty most I w j Americana supposed him to be invlne-j )ol'v ar)d wagered on him according!) I Hud the adherents of th" Englishmen I been more plentiful they could have' j made what Is known In .poitlnK par- ' lanco as a ' killing ' in the betting The calibre of the runners was deni-' onetxated bj the time of the winner. four minutes one and four-fifths - c-iM c-iM onds on a slow, tain .-caked track r Till?' time wa.s onlj six sect ndl more-1 k70v.. than the world'i record HK Ray. who finished eighth was cen- JSjH surcd by some of the athletic author!- H ties for his tactics against the classyl kJiH field. They maintained that instead dcflM of trying to set the pace at the start At Kay should have reserved hl energj for a fast sprint near the en-l sBa no |