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Show I American Athletes I Are Holding Lead I At Antwerp Stadium i ANTWERP, Auk 19. (By The As-I As-I Moisted Press.) American athletes In the seventh Olympiad .scored i-en-tcen points today bringing Uieir totnl to US. Their nearest competitors, the Finns, who failed to win a point today, to-day, have forty-nine points, Kngllah-mn Kngllah-mn mode sixteen pointa ludoy ano Swedish athletes ten polnta Czocho-S'ovakla Czocho-S'ovakla scored three points. Holland two and Belgium and Franca one each England now has forty points and Sweden thirty-six. P J. Ryan of Loughlln Lyccom New York, won the Olympic hammer Hi row today. Ryan's winning throw wss 52.78 ntetera The Olympic record II B4 7 4 nrtera, established by M. J Me'irnth of New York at Stockholm In 1912. 11. Bennett, Chicago A A . w.is third With 4S.:,3 and MHJr.ith New Vork A. C. fifth. 16 HT. McGrath. who had a bad knee, did ivot ihrow today, but placed on hit one toss yesterday in the qualifying round Four American runners qualified In the preliminary heats f the 400 meter run in the Olympic games todaj They were Frank J She.i. l ulled Slate-Navy; Slate-Navy; J. E. (Ted) Meredith. New York A C; K S I'm. roy, Chicago A A., and George S Schiller. Ixs Angeles An-geles A C Phillips, the only Canadian entrant was disqualified Others who win enter the qualifying heats for the semi-finals are: Unci 6av, Alnsworth. W'orthlngton and Butler. England Oldfleld, Dafael and Rudd. South Africa; Fery and Andn France; Vltena, Finland; Engdahl. 1 Sweden; Sunblad Switzerland, and Cortevn and aforfen, Belgium. MEREDITH RUNS KAMI Y I Schiller made the fastest time com- I Ing home in 3-5 seconds shorL of the I record made at the Stockholm Olym-I Olym-I pics In 1912 .Meredith came through I hia heat In impressive style, giving SVi-I SVi-I dence of great resen e power. I Rudd. the South African star, simpls- I brc-ozrd home I The slow time araa caused by heavy I rains today. I Shea beat Rudd in his heat, but the I latter was running easily. The best I time, 50 2-5 seconds, was made bj Fngdahl I All four American entrants in the I pole vault, F. K. Foss. Chicago A. a ; I E. F. Knonrek. Illinois A. C , E. I .lenne. Washington State roll.-ge an.' IE. E Mers. Chicago A. A . qualified for the final Others to qualify were Hogstrom, sfattsen and Ryberg, Sweden, Swe-den, and Jorgensen and Petersen, pen-rnark pen-rnark All qualifying clean d the bar at 3.60 meter VICTORY is NEAR Despite the unexpected victories of European athletes yesterday In the shot putting and broad Jump events the American team went Into the fifth dav of competition with such a lead tat it seemed they were assured of victory. With eleven events finished and only fourteen, Including the decathlon, the modern penthalon and maratnon rimnlnlng. the Americans hav? amassed lot out of a possible 242 points The rest of the points are widely distributed . American feneers hare been eliminated elimi-nated from the final contests In the individual in-dividual event. Major F W. Honeycutt being the only American to progress to the seml-flnals. America was also eliminated from the light wrestling competition last night when George Metropoulls of Gary. Ind., was thrown In four mln-lllea mln-lllea 1 Frizenfeld, Denmark. Lieutenant H. I. Slzymanskl. I'nltcd States Army, light heavyweight, won the liveliest event of the evening from Stasrud. Norway YANKEES LOSE HI . Only one American Fred W. Faller of the Dorchester club qualified in the two forenoon senil-flnal heats of the 10 000 meter run Another American. Amer-ican. A Patnsonl of Haskell institute Kansas, Zuni India n. dropped out In the twentieth lap of the first heat,. J, G. Wilson of England and (inllU-mot (inllU-mot of France were the starts in their respective heats With me Frenchman winning his heat tlose to a minute faster than Wilson' time The races tu ere run in an oceasion-il drizzle In the second hear Faller set the pace for three laps with Gulllehiot .it his heels From ther- on the ,ur. with Bachman pf Sweden and Anderson, Ander-son, altormited In setting the pace Near the finish Guillemot sprinted strongly Into a forty yard lead. Nurmi. Finland, was second In the first hea:. Mucrarlo. Italy, third Man-hels, Man-hels, France, fourth, and Gasschen, Switzerland, fifth all qualifying . Wilson's time was 33 minutes 40 4-o seconds. Guillemot ran the second heat in Si minutes 41 seconds Bachman, Bach-man, Sweden, finished second: Ander- son, Denmark, third; Fred W Faller, fourth, and Garln. Switzerland, tifth America and Greece drew a bye for the Olympic water polo preliminary next week. In the first match Italj will meet Spain; in the second England Eng-land meets. Canada; in the third Sweden Swe-den meets QsSChO Slavla; In the fourth France meotn Brazil, In the fifth Switzerland meets Belgium, and In the sixth Holland meets Australia. M v CONTEST w i s The qualifying series of the 200 me- j tor dash wns run twelve heats of ! five men each, two to qualify, during t 1 drizzle. Tlerard, France. Hogstrom, Sweden; i; Davidson. w Zealand Alex Ponton, Pon-ton, Canada. Plzik, CWH ho-Slovakla i W. A. Hill. England. Hroehart and w. w. Hunt, Australia; Cast, Prance; H. M Abrahams, England; Charles W. Paddock, I-"" Angeles A. C . Doer-enaen, Doer-enaen, Denmark; KOStrom. Sweden Houben. Belgium; Loren Murchlson, New York A. C , Sandstrom. Sweden. Alien Woodring Meadowbrook club. Philadelphia W B, Zepool Holland I H. F- V' Edward, England; Ooster-laap, Ooster-laap, South Africa, Lorraln. Franre; Heyneman, Holland, m M Klrksev. Olvmplc club. San Francisco, and Im-bach, Im-bach, Bwltserland. The best time. i 22 3-3 seconds, was made by Davidson In the second heat. In the light henywelght rlass of the i Greco-Roman wrestling Tetens Den- mark, defeated F. W Malehlo. United ' Slates Navy , INKERS Ql AMI V In the quarter finals of the j00 me- I tor run the following qualified for the seml-flnals Loren Murchlson. New-York New-York A C; Imbach Switzerland rjd-Ward, rjd-Ward, England: Woodring. Meadow-brook Meadow-brook club. Philadelphia; Davidson, New Zealand, Paddoi k, Los Angeles a C.; Klrkeey, San Francisco; Ponton, Pon-ton, l Ooaterlaap, South Afrl- I cu. mid Brochard, Belgium. !:.. hard heat Hill of England, who was eliminated. The best time was made bv Reld. 22 seconds. D F Ahern. the American holder of the world's if cord for the hop, step ind jump, was only able to finish sixth in that event today. Just getting Inside the qualifying line with his 1".T5 meters. me-ters. Sherman Landers. Chicago A . C , with 14 meters, finished fourth. The Finn. Funlos. and three Swedes ; make up the rest of the field for the I final. |
