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Show OLYMPIC GAMES RESULTS j ANTWERP, Aug 16 American hur-j die.- running first, second, third an 1 ; sixth in a field of six in the linal of the 100 metre hurdles In the Olympic games here -today BCOred 17 points for1 the United Slater.. Frank Loomls of the Chicago A A , the winner of thy ovont, established a new world s iecrod of 54 seconds flat for the distance, beating the old record by one second Had he continued less ihun io yxrds farther he would have broken tho' world's record for the 400 yard hu' dies. Loomlfl led safely all the w ay an I won by three yards from Norton of the Olympic club, fin Francisco, the sec-, ond A ; Descb of None Dame university, won third place by inches from George!! Andre f France, and Charles I . luK pi ihe Los Angeles A. Cm close up in flftb and sixih positions, posi-tions, respectively. The official world - record for the, I in yard hurdles Is 56 4-5 seconds msde D3 G R. L Anderson ol England, July 16. 1910 A new record Of 54 4-5 sec j onds. however, was made by W. H; Me-anix at Cambridge. Mass. July 16, 1915, but this has not yet been offi u;ilb passed upon by th- inifrnatlonal j records committee of ihe amateur federation. fed-eration. The commute 1 11 meet during dur-ing the present games COAST ATHLETE WINS. h;n lea W Paddock of the Los Angeles An-geles A C;, won the final of the 1UU metre.-- event with M. M. Kirkscy ol the Olympic club, San Francisco, second. sec-ond. H V lid ward of England was third Altkhan of France, fourth, J. 1 V Scbolli ol Lie University of Mis-1 SOUTl, fifth .and Loren Murcihson of the Now York A. C, sixth. The time ! was 10 4 5 seconds. There was considerable- delay In Starting the 100 mtre fin.il due to .'he nervousness of the sprinters. Paddock, the w nner, was particularly so run-1 ning fully bo yards up the stretch to I In iinpt of the press stand whore he stopped anu solemnly touched the j wooden truck rail. At fo metres Paddock and Klrksey j were abreast with Scnolz a close third In the final 50 moires Edward and Allkhan passed Scbolx. MurchiSOnl protested the start, due to ihe fart tha; ' the starter called to Paddock to take his hands off the starting line. At the command Murchi.nn parti rose and was caught unprepared when the gun was fired the next instant. Teh protest was not allowed. THREE ARE TIED. Brutus K Hamilton. University of Missouri, Robert Legendro, George imin university, and Lortensen i Pin land, wiih 2 points, were tied for third place, Luoiaud 01 Sweden, was sixth with 27 point , ,;nd ( ihl-1 iu ul Sweden, was seventh, with 30 The result of the penthalon discus throw was ohisson sw eden, first, distance dis-tance 39.80 metres; Looland, Norway, second. 39.51 moires, Kluniburc thonla, third. 38.62 metres; LeGondre, America, fourth, 37 39 metres; Hamil ton, America, fifth. 37.13 metres Bradley, America, sixth. 36.37 metres. Flftepn hundred metre run in the penthalon: Lortenen, Finland, fir.-t , Lehtoneh, Finland, second; Ohlsson, Sweden, third, Looland, Norway, fourth Phlender, America, fifth; Brad-ley, Brad-ley, America, sixth, Hamilton, America, Amer-ica, seventh. Time 1 minutes 3(i seconds sec-onds LOSE IN JAVELIN THROW. Kumberg of Esthonia. finished first in 'he pavelin throw of the penthalon, his hurl being 60 7b metres Lehtonen f'f Finland, was second with M 67 tres; Lortenen of Finland, third with ."i 25 metres Looland of Norway fourth with 53 13 metres; Nilson of Sweden, fifth with 50 85 metres, and VenBhOTJ of Sweden, sixth with 50 13 metres. Tht3 American contestants flni-hrij well down Brutus K. Hamilton. University Uni-versity of Missouri, made a throw of 48 36 metres; Evore L Bradley Unl ersily of Kansas, IS 1 i metres, Hob ert L. LeGendrc Georgetown university. univer-sity. 4 160 metres, and Robert J. Dunne, University of Michigan, 4152 metres. m the 200 metro dash Bradley Le tonnen Gyllenstelphe and LeGendrc wore tied for the first place, covering the distance in 23 seconds flat. Hamilton Ham-ilton was fifth in 23 3-5 seconds, Lortenen Lor-tenen sixth, in 23 3 5 seconds and fuinnc seventh, in 23 4 5 seconds Earl J Thompson, the champion hurdler from Dartmouth college, and member of the Canadian Olympic team, d.d not compete in the 400 me tre hurdles toda and is being sased I for the 100 metre hurdle event. Hec-1 Hec-1 tor Phillips, one of the stars of the ( anadian team', was eliminated in the 800 metre run which was won by B lG. D Rudd. of South Africa 800 METER RESULTS. Lieut U. M. Scott U 9 army, won I the tirst of throe qualif: ing heats for the semifinals in ihe Sim m.tre run IE. D. Mountain, Cambridge (Jniversit: A. C, England, was second and A B spprott, Los Angeles A. C third, Th- time was 1 minute 57 1-5 seconds All 1 throe qualU for the semi-finals The second heat was wou by B G. D. Rudd of South Africa Thomas Camp-hell Camp-hell of 'a- university, was second, and Paulep of Holland, third The t inn-was inn-was 1 minute 57 seconds. The third and last heat was m b mn i-i.,.i Pool Ck, i'i 1 A. J. rllll Ol uu6ia"U, '-" ! " cago A. A . was second, ami E. S. P.rbs of France, third. Th trnte wa-1 wa-1 minute 5o 1 5 seconds. Lehtonen won the ancient penthalon of the Olympic games today, scoring 14 points E-erett u. Bradle;. , University Univer-sity of Kansas was second with 2" pom's (The least number of points ! de termined the w inner) no |