AT OLYMPIA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10685, 12 July 1912, Page 5

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CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

WORLDS RECORD RUNS OVER A DISTANCE

HILL AND MURRAY FAIL TO (GJIMSFY.

(Reared July 11, 11.10 a.m.)

STOCKHOLM, July 10. The 150(5* anetres <nvent at Olympaa was won % A. Jackson, a British representative, in 3min 57sees —a world's record.

G. S. Hi! <New -Zealand), the Australasian representative, did not qualify for the'final. Hannes Kolehma'inen, the Fim* champion, oajDfcnred itfoe 5000 metres after a world's record run of limine. 36 3-ssecs.

Hill, fourth 5« ; h'is 'lieat, did not reach the final. In tlie heat of the 10,000 metres, the New 'Zealander retired in the tenth lap. _ W; Murray, Yieto-ria., •and reoresen ■ ting Australasia, retired at a mile a'id three-quarters in the IfyOOO meters walk.

C. Atkinson (a Ne-w Zealand cliamninn"). who was d)o-r'\ : o?l one of thr> British team, lias qualified for tlie final of tlie 200 metres breast stro'ke. The draw of the first round <*f tlie rowing contest is as follows: —Australia v, Gothenburg, Leander v. Canada, New College v. Norway.

I Miss Durack's corrected time for the j 100 metres swimming event is 73 4-75 V sees.

In the final of the relay race, Britain was first, iw 42secs, with Sweden inn-ner-up.

LONGWORTH ILL.

WITHDRAWN FROM THE GAMES

(Received July 11, 11.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY, July 11. Longworth. the New South Wales swimmer, and holder of world's records, has cabled to Sydney that he is ill, and has withdrawn from the Olympic events on medical advice.