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Show SWEDES CAPTURE ALL-AROUND TILT ANTWERP, Aug. 27. (By The Associated As-sociated Press.) Sweden captured the first three places In the modern, pentathlon finals today, when Drys-I sen. Dcleval and Rund finished In the order named. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ro-bert Seers and apialn Harold H. Ray-nor, Ray-nor, American contestants, finished sixth and eighlh. rMpectiVel) The five events or the modern pentathlon pen-tathlon are Rapid fire at target with I revolver or pistol at 25 metres range. j 300 metres style swimming, fencing: I cross-country riding (distance 3,000 metres! and cross-country running.! (distance 4,000 inetros. ) The catrh-as-catch-can wrestling championship was won b tho American Amer-ican team, with a total of 9 1-2 points. Finland was second, with 8 points Sweden, third 5 1-2; Switzerland,! j fourth, five, und England, fifth. With two polnta In the light heavyweight championship champion-ship Larsons of Sweden won from I Courant, Switzerland, by uefault The American C P. Vohrson of Qulncy. Mass., obtained second place 1 in the middleweight championship bj a default of A. M Fr&ntz, New York1 A. C. 1 In tho semi-finals of tho 400 metres free stroke swim today Normon R01 I Illinois A. C. and the Canadian. Y.-r-not, won their heats, P. K. Kahols. U. B. N. W W Harris. Jr. and Ludy Lanser, Honolulu, qualified fr the finals. In tho 200 metres breast stroke, G It. Taylor, Chicago A A , and Stephen Buddy, New York A C. failed to qualify. qual-ify. nn |