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■ I , a *i i a II ■ IBIG CONTESTS TODAY400-Metcr and 5,000-Meter Races Feature Olympic Game*.the Olympic spotlight with the third episode of the rivalry betweenLos Angeles, Aug. 5 (JP)—Finland’s £ last ditch fight to save at least one |bright jewel out of the wreckage £ of its fotraeing crown today shared cBill Carr and Ben Eastman, Amer- lean 400-meter aces. citiNo slackening of the track and £ field record-breaking carnival was g in sight. . cFor five days the ''build-up for today's two track climaxes has sounded just like the old family phonograph.—one record -after an- h other. Anyone who has had fortl- I hire to keep track of it all can emerge with the statistical gem that t, 45 record performances have been J announced in 1? track and field g events for men and women.The response to announcements of new. .records Thursday could have been heard in four different languages. Luigi Beccali won the classic Olympic 1,500 meters in the Olympic record time of 3,51.2. for Italy’s first Olympic foot-racing victory of all time.Mmnttl Jarvinen led the first successful Finnish thrust with an Olympic record javelin throw of.233 feet. 7 inches.Chuhci Nambu of Japan, the world record broad jumper, added the hop, sten and jump championship and world crown to his-credit, with a mark of 51 feet, 7 inches.Finally, America’s own Mildred Babe Didrikson scampered to her second world record victory, in the 80-meter hurdles, in 11.7 seconds.Finland's first championship in an event which was hers simply for going through the motions of apear-tcHsing, won't bo enough to offset her cup of bitterness, If youthful Laurl Lchtinen fails today to take , (he 5.000 meters, the. last flat race title that the Finns have a chance to salvage.This Olympiad so far has dealt * a stunning series of blows to the foot-racing prestige that Finland -developed so sensationally after the war.Meanwhile the Americans had their own private war to settle, between Eastman and Carr, each with a weather eve out meanwhile for the slim Englishman, Lt. (Jodfrey Lionel Rampling,Rampling didn’t look so impressive in the trials yesterday, even under wratis, and there has been ' nothing yet to prove he can touch the record-smashing performances of Carr and Eastman. Englishmen have .n way of winning foot-races, especially at the middle distances, as witness the great 800-meter victory of Thomas Hampson two days ago.Cut has whipped Eastman twice 1 in world record time this season. The majority of observers think he can do it again, even though Eastman seems now to be in better condition than he was in the final tryouts at Palo Alto.Kansan Finishes Fourth.American as well as Finnish hopes 2 were blasted by the withering clos- * ing pace of Italy’s black-haired little racer, Beccali, in the 1,500 final. The United States sent three of her best college milers to the ^ post, Glen Cunningham of Kansas, Pen* Halknvell of Harvard and Frank Crowley of Manhattan, but1 they wound up fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively, in a field of 12.Cunningham wilted on the back-stretch of the first lap after helping set a fast pace. He was passed first by Phil Edwards of Canada, then by Beccali and Jerry Cornea, the British champion, who finished second.Despite Babe Didrikson’s world record victory over her American rival, Evelyn Hall, in the 80-meter hurdles, the fifth day of the Olympic track and field championships s-as a big let-down for the United States forces, which had complete-y dominated the previous day’s pro* fram.The revised total for the United States, for 18 men's events in, fivefays, was 158 points. Finland TiOVed into second place, with 35 to STCst Britain's 34, and Japan advanced to fourth position with 28, ollowed by Canada and Ireland,!3 each.In the division, mean-rhilc. th.sr Air,'-r;cap team score, ncreased by 18 points in the hur-Cl!Ccc11nctlactlt;ftsiilt;N
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Emporia Gazette
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Fri, Aug 05, 1932
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