DAY AT OLYMPIA

Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 9

DAY AT OLYMPIA

JAPANESE PROMINENT

SCULLERS IN ACTION

PEARCE'S POOR DISPLAY

United Press Association —By Electric .Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 12, 11.45 a.m.) BERLIN, August 11. The special representative of the Australian Associated. Press Agency at the Olympic Games reports that the Japanese Uto had an easy win in the first semi-final of the 400 metres free style, but in the second semifinal the giant American worldrecord holder, Medica, had a terrific tussle with the tiny Japanese Makino. Medica led until 300 metres, which was covered in 3min 36 3-ssec. Makino spurted and went ahead twenty yards, later, hut Medica fought back and made a dead-heat-ing of a very exciting race. Leivers was beaten by a touch. He swam the distance in the fastest any Briton has yet achieved. ' RECORD IN RELAY. In the relay final Japan's team in order of swimming was Yusa, Sugiura, Taguchi, and Arai. The Japanese led throughout and won by 15 metres. There was a battle royal between Hungary, France, and Germany, for the minor positions, all breaking their national records. Miss Maehata, although leading throughout the final of the women's breaststroke, was never, much, more than a foot ahead of the German •world's record-holder, Miss Martha Genenger, who continually made desperate efforts to pull the Japanese back, but Miss Maehata hung on grimly and won by half a yard. The 11----year-old Miss Soerensen was a plucky third. ' . GERMAN CHAMPION'S SCULLING. The wind was behind the scullers and made the water choppy. The. heavier men such as Pearce (Hst lib) and Barrow (12st 101b) suffered in comparison with Scaeffer, the German champion, who is more lightly - built. Scaeffer early went ahead, leading from Pearce, and he was still ahead at 1000 metres. 'The four others were close together. Pearce afterwards lost ground while Scaeffer increased his lead, sculling brilliantly, and won untroubled by three lengths, with a length between second and third, and a length between' third and fourth. ' The winner in each heat will enter the semi-final # on Thursday. Those beaten in today's heats will row again for the right to enter the semi-final: Pearce finished lifelessly, half-choked by a severe cold. His was an extremely disappointing performance and he never looked to be in the race after 1000 metres.' ■• ,: . , SHOCK FOR MISS HOLM. In the ttrst heat of the 100 metres women's backstroke Miss Senff swam like a winner throughout. Miss Mackay (Australia), who showed poor judgment in approaching the turn, never looked like getting a place. In the second heat Miss Kerkmeester went ahead, but Miss Bridges passed her just before the turn and finished an easy, winner. Miss Pat Norton (Australia) was sadly below form and was rarely better placed than fourth, just beating Miss Rupke to qualify. Miss Norton swam 50 metres in 39.1 sec. iVhen the announcer stated that Miss Senff's time was a world record Miss Eleanor Holm, . the American swimming star who was dropped from the team following incidents on the voyage and who was. watching, appeared on the verge of a breakdown but recovered somewhat when the announcer corrected his statement to say the time was an Olympic record. The authorities are still rewarding German victors. Karlhein, winner of the hammer throw, a cigarette maker has been given a small house. THE RESULTS. The day's results included:— SWIMMING. 800 METRES RELAY. Japan, Bmin 51Jsec, an Olympic and world record .... 1 United States, 9min 3sec ........ 2 Hungary, 9min 12.3 sec, a European record 3 France, 9min 18sec, a French native record .. 4 Germany, 9min 19sec, a German native record '. ■ 5 Great Britain, 9min 21Jsec ]..[..' 6 Canada, 9min 27isec " 7 Sweden, 9min 34isec ...'." 8 MEN'S 400 METRES FREE STYLE. First Semi-final.—Uto (Japan), 4min 48 4-ssec, 1; Flannagan (U.S.A.), 4min 54 9-10 sec, 2; Nagami (Japan), 4min 55 2-ssec, 3; Macionis (U.S.A.), 4min 56 2-ssec, 4; Freese (Germany), N 4min 584 sec, 5; Pirie (Canada), 4min 58 7-10 sec 6. ' Semi-final. -J. Medica (U.S.A.), and S. Makino (Japan), 4min 48 l-ssec, an Olympic record, dead heat, 1; J. Taris (France), 4min 55 3-ssec, 3; R. Lievers (Britain), 4min 55 MOsec, 4; G. Arendt (Germany), smin 13 2-ssec, 5; O. Przywara (Germany) smm 15 9-10 sec, 6. Ledgard (Peru) did not start. The first three in each semi-final and the two fastest losers qualified for the final. WOMEN'S 200 METRES BREASTSTROKE. 1 Final. Miss H. Maehata (Japan), 3min 3 3-ssec j Miss Genenger (Germany)',"3miii 4 l-ssec 2 Miss I. Soerensen (Denmark)','3niin 7 7-10 sec 3 Miss Hoelzner (Germany) "and "Miss Waalberg (Holland), 3min 9* sec, dead heat * 4 Miss-D. Storey (Great Britain),' 3rniri 9 7-10 sec 6 Miss Kastein (Holland), 3miii 12 4-ssec ' 7 WOMEN'S-100 METRES BACKSTROKE. First Heat.—Miss D. SenfE (Holland), 76 3-ssec, an Olympic record, 1; Miss T. Brunstroem (Denmark), 80 >2-ssec, 2; Miss L. Frampton (Britain), 80 9-10 sec, 3; 'Miss A. Stolte (Germany), 83 l-10sec, 4; Miss K. Mackay (Australia), 84 3-ssec, 5; Miss I. Gyoerffy (Hungary), 85 4-ssec, 6. Second Heat.—Miss Bridges (U.S.A.), 79 l-ssec; 1; Miss Kerkmeester (Holiand), 81 l-ssec, 2; Miss Harding (Britain), 82 l-10sec, 3; Miss Pat' Norton (Australia), 82 3-10 sec, 4; Miss Rupke (Germany), 83 7-10 sec, 5; Miss Blondcau (France), 83 4-ssec, (i. Third Heat. — Miss Mortbridge (U.S.A.). 81sec, 1;. Miss Masterbroek (Holland), 82scc, 2; Miss A. Hancock ' (Britain), .83 3-sscc, 3; Miss Neilsen .(Denmark), 85 3-10 sec, 4; Miss McCon-

kay (Canada) and Miss Chen (China) did not qualify. The first four in each heat qualified for the semi-final tomorrow. SPRINGBOARD DIVING. Final. . . Degener (U.S.A.), 163.57 points .. 1 Wayno (U.S.A.), 159.56 points .. 2 Greene (U.S.A.), 146.29 points .. 3 Shibahara (Japan), 144.92 points .. 4 Weiss (Germany), 141.24 points .. 5 Esser (Germany), 137.99 points .. 6 Then came Mahraun (Germany), 134.61 points, 7; Joyanagi (Japan), 133.07 points, 8; Liekert (Czechoslovakia), 131.91 points, 9; Ziherl .(Yugoslavia), 125.26 points, 10; Ismail (Egypt), 121.G7 points, U; Keinkole (France), 117.72 points, 12; Niemelainen (Finland), 116.80 points, 13; R. Masters (Australia), 115.72 points, 14. 2000 METRES SINGLE SCULLS. First Heat.—Verey (Poland), 7min 31 l-ssec, 1; De Palma (Brazil), 7min 37 7-10 sec, 2; Korko (Estonia), 7min 40 2-ssec, 3; van Houten (Holland), 7min 42 9-10 sec, 4; Jelaska (Yugoslavia), Bmin 5 l-ssec, 5. Second Heat.—Scaeirer (Germany), 7min 17 l-lOsec, 1; Hasenohrl (Austria), 7min 24sec, 2; Turnbull (Canada), 7min 25 7-10 sec, 3;. Pearce (Australia), Tmin 27sec, 4; Barrow (U.S.A.), 7min 30Jsec, Third Heat.—Rusli' (Switzerland), 7min 19sec, 1; Banos (France), 7min 39 9-10 sec, 2; Christainssen (Norway), 7min 42 9-10 sec, 3; Kozma (Hungary), 7min 47sec, 4; Youell (South Africa), 7min 56 3-10 sec, 5. Fourth Heat.—Warner (Great Britain), 7min 27sec, 1; Steinleken (Italy), 7min 30 3-ssec, 2; Giorgio (Argentina), 7min 33sec, 3; Juanico (Uruguay), 7min 39sec, 4; Zavrel (Czechoslovakia), 7min 43sec, 5. ■ . ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. Semi-final. Austria v. Poland, 3-1. WATER POLO. Hungary v. Belgium, 3-0; Great Britain v. Holland, 4-4; France y. Sweden, 2-1; Germany v. Austria, 3-1; Hungary v. Belgium, 3-0. BOXING. WELTERWEIGHT. Second Heat.—Stanislaus Tuvio (Finland) outppinted,L. Cook (Australia).