How Percy Williams won the second leg of the Olympic double

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 16

How Percy Williams won the second leg of the Olympic double

Here We have the final of the two hundred metres Olympic eh am pionship, m . which young Percy Williams, after winning t»e .hundred metres, completed the double and placed himself aniong the greatest; runners of the nine; Olympiads. ■.. It was a wonder- ; ful field [and a won- - derful rape. From the - .. - pistol Kbrnig shot to the front and led Williams, with Rangeley and : S'c hbl zclose up. They ran like this up to fifty metres from the tape, where Williams shot »0 4b6^^ront;,;;anjd£V: flangeiey, 'Schofz and Kornig joined to- i ,-..-•.. "'.if'--- u»t,;„^. I

Williams made his supreme effort twenty metres from the tape, where Rangeley also put daylight between himself, Scholz and Kornig. Williams, broke the ■ tape inches m front of the: Englishman, while Scholz and Kornig, dead-heated for third place! a foot behind the .winner. The t i me was .21 .8. The runners as they breast the tape m this photo from left to right are-Fitzpat- • rick (Canada), fifth; Scholz (America), third, equal; Korniq (Gis'rmafhV-), th i rd, equal; Rangeley (Gt. Britain), second; Schuller (Germany), sixth, and Williams.