OLYMPIC GAMES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 287, 28 August 1920, Page 7

OLYMPIC GAMES

SWIMMING AND BOXING. London,- August 25. The Australian . team (Hay, Herald, Stedman and Ivirkland) qualified for the) final of the 800 motres Jlday Race at Olympia, being eccond in the first heat, sixteen .seconds behind America. In the final-on Sunday, Bei'iirepaire, Hay, Stedman, and Herald v.ill represent Australia. ' The coldness of the water is troubling the Australians. None of th'em is swimming up to form. Beaurepa?re, who was Its a ton by forty yards in the 1500 'letres race, was stiff with cold when he left the watei. The final of the liidiies' 100 -Metres Swimming Race was won bv Miss Uleiblirey (America 1 ), m 78 3-,isec. . She thus broko her own record put up on Monday. Jfiss Walrond ;New Zealand) tin. isned fifth.—Aus.-M.Z. (.able Assn. Antwerp, August 25.Details of the IMKI. i::(:i.res swim show thnt, after a falsei si'iilt, a fight began between Vernot, Ueauropiire, and R«ra, swimming in that order. Jn tho s xtfli lap, Ross was level iv.th Wnof, and Beaurepairo was falling back. From then on Ross drew rap : dly iwav! and in tlio tenth lap was a ilraen ynrde )n front of Vernot, who ivas (lie s>i-ne distance ahead of Beaurepa'.re. .. ltoss woi. by twenty metres. Tlie men's diving racs was won by Vallman (Sweden), and the' sicond, third, and fourili places' \v<re filled by Swedes. ■ The '100 metres (J4O ljTeast stroke resulted: Molmoll: iSwct'rn), 1; .Flenmng (Sweden), 2; AuKotr.cr (Finland), 3. Time, uiuin. 31 4-ssee.

Bo.vug- winners wtsro: ri.fvf.ght, Degaiiliaro (America); bantam, Walker (Africa); featherweight, I'rifsch *,Prance); lightweight. ,Mi.ssberg (Amevica): weltorweisrhi:.- Schneider (Canada); middleweight, Mnllin (England); light heavyweight* Egan (America); heavy-' weight,' Rawson (England) .--Reuter.