OLYMPIC GAMES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 286, 27 August 1920, Page 7

OLYMPIC GAMES

SWIMMING RECORDS LOWERED. Antwerp. August 25. Tho final of the 1500 metres (1610 yards) swim resulted: Ross (America), 1; Vernot (Canada), 2; Beaurepairo (Victoria), 8. ,A „ ~ In the ladies' 100 metres (109.3 yards) swim, Miss Walrond (New Zealand) was third in her heat. and.she will competo in the final. Miss Bleibtrey, of Amc rica, won her heat in 74 2-ssec., lowerins. tho Olympic record by 5 2-ssec. In the final of the ladies' tennis urnglos Mile: Lenglen! (France) beat Miss Holman (Great Britain), &—3, 6—o. In the cross-country running _ the teams' plaoings were: Finland, 10 points; Britain, 20 points; Sweden. 23 poinifc. The 100 metres swim was a great race. Knhanamoku lowered his own worlds record by one-fifth of a second. Ross, Harris, and Herald dead-heated for third place. Harris wag all out, and had to be lifted from tho water ond massaged for ton minutes before ho was nTile to stand. The judges' decision that tho race must be reswum caused no surj prise, Herald being clearly "boxed in. —Reuter. f (Reo. August 26, 7.55 p.m.)> Antwerp, August 25. , In tho semi-final of the 100 metres (109.3 yards) swim Herald' 6 time, 64 4-ssec., equalled Ross's, but he was placed third, though the general opinion was that he camo second. In the final,'which, however, was ordered io be reswum, Kealoha, who filled second place, took 61 2-ssec. In the first heat of the 1500- metres swim Beaurepairo led all the way and finished fifty metres ahead of Kahere. Time, 22min. 55sec—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AS3D. (Rec. August 20, 11.10 p.m.) 1 Antwerp, August 24. In the 1500 metres swim: the, first head resulted: Ross, 1; Kohele, 2; Bolden, 3. Time 1 , 23min. 52 2-ssec. Second heat: Beanrepalre (Victoria), 1; Vernot (Canada), 2; Annison (England), 3. Time, 22min. 59 2-ssec. Beaurepairo led all the way. The final of the 100 metres will bo reswum on Sunday.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.