OLYMPIC GAMES

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1932, Page 5

OLYMPIC GAMES

MORE RECORDS INTERESTING CONTESTS. (United Presn Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LOS ANGELES, August 3. Edgar o‘ay (.„uwa.*,.; ,v, ui; th.iusii.ld ilia,,} L/jyiijp.'o nine ua«l the record time of one minute tnine,.,, second)Vou Fgniund (Holland) 2, Hampel berg (trance) 3. Gray justified the optimism us to his chances in. the thousand metre cyme trial by cyuling the distance' jp 1 minutes lo seconds, which was the fastest time, and is a new O.yrnpic .record..: Gray thus becomes the Olympic,- .eintnipion. Nino competed, included the picked French and Italian riders. Whizzing over the course in a great burst of speed, Gray cut fourteen seconds off the record sit in 1928 by Faickhansen, of Denmark ; and the present champion finished in third pus-, ition. Van Egmond (Holland): was second. Harvel (Great Britain) ana tConsonni (Italy) tied for fourth place. Bush (Canada) wae sixth. Van Eg-' mond’s time was 1 minutes \ 13.4 seconds.

Jacobus Van Egmond' (Holland) won the hundred metre eye'ing scratch championship, he defeating Louis C'hftiiUot (France) in two out of three heats. *

The French- pair, Cha'illot and Perrin, won the two thousand metre tandem title, defeating Great Britain’s cycling brothers, Ernst and. Stanley Chambers', in two straight heats. Van Egmond (Holland) and Chaillot’ (France) fought out the final for the first and second places, Chaillot winning the firH contest by inches. Van Egmond took the second and third heats, after exciting finishes, thus becoming the scratch race Olympic champion.

POLE VAULT RECORD. Miller (United States) won the pole vault. « In the pole vaiflt, after both Nish-id-a (Japan) and Miller (United States) 'had cleared a new Olympic record height of 14 feet, the contest developed into a duel between them. The bar was . raised to. fourteen feet one inch and seven-eighths. Both then tried and got over this, but they pulled the bar off with their chest;;. NiTiida failed three times to clear it properly. Miller, then tried for his final time. The women were shrieking even before he got half way on his path. He went up, cleared, and brushed the bar, which trembled, but it did not fall. The crowd then let out a tremendous roar. ' ... The world’s, vault record was exceeded by three-eighths of an inch. ' DISCUS THROW.

The discus event was won by J°hn •Anderson i(United States), who threw the discus 162 feet 4 7-8 inches. This is a new Olympic record. .> In the 150 p metres first trials, results were:—-Second heat: Lovelock (New Zealand) 1, Pen Hallo well (United yStates) 2, -Edward King (Canada) 3, Harry j Larva (Finland) 4, Paul Martin (Switzerland) 5, Folke Skoog (Sweden) 6.

WRESTLING. ' Mehringgr (United States) won thc-light-heavyweight wrestling title, defeating Scarf (Australia) on a decision. Sjostedt (Sweden), the defending champion, was placed second. Middleweight: Luuko (Finland) threw Tunyogi (Hungary). Luuko was awarded second place, and Tunyogi third, because of the victory over Hess on Monday.

Welterweight final: Van Bebber (United States) won the welterweight wrestling championship. McDonald was second, and Leijno third. In the feather freight wrestling, Herman Pihlajamski, (Finland) threw Enar Karlsson (Swedun) and thus wins the title.

Pearce (Unifod -States) threw Jaskari ((Finland). Pearce (United States) tlhi’is wins the bantamweight. catch as catch-can title.

Riley (United .States) threw Hischl fAustria) in the heavyweight wrestling division, thus deciding the second and third places.

, . ROWING. The New Zealand eight is showing great power iu the workouts/ but lacks co-ordination, when compared with the English crew. The American system of relying art arm work results ' n a terrific s-peed when there is a fo’lowing breeze. The ’’tnl'inJis now rank with the England and ites for tlie. eight oared race, owing to their ability to strike and maintain a trenvr/ndou'3 rate throuhgout. ■ADDITIONAL RESULTS. LOS ANGELES, August 4. Payed (Italy), won the 100 kilometres road race to-day in ?hrs. 29m in. 5 3-ssec. OugLohno S' gala (Italy) w:s second and Bernhar ' Drily (Swtclep) third. Guisepane 01 10 (Italy), Soerensen (Denmark), Frank Southall (Britain).