OLYMPIC GAMES
AMERICA'S BIG LEAH.
EX-GUSH ,OOTCEOEt (INJURED
.Received This Morning, .12:3.5 o'clock,
STOCKHOLM, July 16
In the teams' swim, Healy (Sydney) dead heated with McGillivr-ay i(Amierica) in the .first 200 metres.
M. E. ( Champion. (New Zealand) made ten yards in .the second 200 metres. " Boardman increased the lead to twenty ya-rdfci, and then iHardwick had to fight with Kanakmoku, against ■whom he lost in the first hundred, hut /recovered in the final hundred .with a spurt, confirming the opinion, that Kawaknigkni is pot. dangerous .beyond 130 metre!?, *?
TUioirpe -Avon the Decathlon race, two Swedes being second and third. The' BCOO metres crosscountry, event .was .won by H. Kohlmaimen in riwmin. .H'ekc. Swede© were" placed second and third. .Sweden won the teams race in connection, -with this event, with Finland .second "and Britain third.
America won the 1600 metres relay in 3mm. 15-secs., iFrance being second in .3ni-in. SQsecs., and Britain third in 3min. 23sees. The contests at the Stadium liave no,w concluded.
America has scored 128 points, the British Empire 108, including South Africa 16, Australia and Canada 13 each; Sweden 104, Finland 46, and Germany ,34.
America has scored S5 points in the track .and field- events, Fin-land 29, Sweden 27, and England: 15. Lieut.'Lawrence, of the 18th Hussars, iwas thrown into a ditch /during the horse-riding competition. Concussion of the -brain resulted. He is now recovering.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10670, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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229OLYMPIC GAMES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10670, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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