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FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932BRMRHTHE DAILY ARDMOREITE. ARDMORE. OKLAHOMARill Car and Ben Eastman, Atneriean 400-Meter Races Have Private ,War;By ALAN QOULD Associated Ptesa Sjrarts Editorland's last-ditch fight to save at least one bright jewel out of the wreckage j of its foot-racing crown today shared the Olympic spotlight with the third episode of the rivalry between Bill Carr i and Ben Eastman, American 400-meter aces. .No slackening of the track and field record-breaking carnival was in sight.For five days the “build-up for today’s two track cUta§Lx§s has,,sounded -just like’ the ole family phonograph-one record after another. Thousands who have been watching: the astounding Olympic spectacle from the outset now mingle laughter with tlieir cheers togreet announcer’s old refrain:. “Creating a new1 Olympic and world record.Anyone who has had fortitude to keep track of it all can emerge with the’statistical gem that 45 record performances have been announced in 17 track and field events for men and women.The response yesterday could have .been heard in four different languages. Luigi Beccali won the classic Olympic 1500 meters in the Ooympic record time of 3.51.2, for Italy’s first Olympic footracing victory of all time.MatU PatVinen Lee the first successful Finnish thrust with an Olympic record Javelin throw of 238 feet 7 inches.Chiihei Nambii of Japan, the world record broad jumper, added the hop, step 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 41.7' seconds. * ../ Finns Seek 5000 Meters ; Finland’s first championship, however, in* an event which was hers simply for going through the motions of spear-tossing won’t be enough to offset her cup of bitterness, if youthful Lauri Lehtlnen fails today to take- the 5000meters* the* lasf flat vac* title that theFins have a chance to salvage.This Olympiad so far has dealt a stunning series of blows to the footracing prestige that Finland developed so sensationally after the war.First and bitterest blow of all was the banishment of Paavo Nurmi, the king of her runners, on the very eve of the games,' destroying Finland’s best changes to win the 10,000 meters and marathon.'Then came the youthful Iso-Hollo’s defeat Sunday by the Polish star, Jan Kusocinski, in the 10,000. Yesterday the 1600 meter crown passed for the firat lime to an Italian. .whUe Finland’s defending champion, Harry Larva, finished In the ruck along with his two compatriots, PurJe and Luomanen.With Nurmi and WiUle Ritola no longer present to carry on, Finland’s 15000 meter hopes rested squarely upon young Lehtinen, best of the country’s newcomers and a world record-breaker at the distance. The man they feared most, for the first time, was an American, Ralph Hill of Oregon, stiU holder of the national outdoor mile record.Hill Develops Sensationally 1 Hill has developed sensational at the longer distance. He has a real, “kick and there is still the bright picture of how he ran away from Lehtinen in the 5000 meter trials Tuesday, even touching nothing but qualifying places were at stake.Yet to be run, of course, are the 3000 meter steeplechase and marathon, but in these events, too, the opposition for the Finns is stronger than ever, encouraged ho doubt by the growing conviction that the cloak of Finnish invincibility has been removed.Meanwhile the Americans had their own private war to settle, between Eastman and Carr, each with a. weather eye out meanwhile for the slim Englishman, Lieut. Godfrey Lionel Rampling. The latter is built very much along .he lines of.the spindly-legged Scotch*.‘.x-rac/.*..... «liMHiVmmmmmmA'WgmilasXmm■X•Vmm®’f.//A’.mrnm-S'rV'r-mmmmy.Here’s the exciting girls’ 80-meter. hurdle trial in the Los Angeles Olympics, in which Babe Didrikson,. Texas, set a world record of 1L8 seconds, after her recent world javelin, mark. - Left to right, the hurdlers are: Marjorie Clark, South Africa, 3rd; Betty Taylor, Canada; Simone- SchaUer, u. s., second; Michi Nakashini, Japan;' Babe Didrikson.MARIETTA WILL PLAY SHERMANTexas Team Is Expected to Give Legionnaires Workout for Tournament.MARIETTA, Aug. 5—(Special)—Asa “warmer-up for the „state sandlpttournament in Okiahoma City shortly. Bud Autry’s Marietta legionnaires have arranged a game for ^Sunday with Sherman, Texas, All-Stars, it has been* announced. The game, which will feature some, of north Texas’ best, is tostart at 3:30.. . \ To see what success a pickup pitcher can have and to-feel out His entire tiiuu, Autry will probably use a newcomer in the box Sunday. Then if he looks good enough, the new man will get his chance at Oklahoma City. Otherwise the veterans will twirl the pill for the Autry outfit. Each club is allowed one pickup at the state meet.Admission to Sunday’s game will be 25 cents.man, Eric Liddell, who won the Olympic 400 meter championship in 1924 while the bagpipes Rkirled.Run in lai* s from “staggered starts,the Olympic 400 favors Eastman's striding style but it has yet to be proved he can travel as fast as Carr when the final “kick is called for,Carr has whipped Eastman twice 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 hewas in the final tiyouts at^ Palo Altd.Yesterday Carr and Eastman each won two trial heats in common canters.. Italian Wins by Upset Americans as well os Finnish hopes were blasted by the withering closing pace of Italy’s black-haired little racer, Beccali, in the 1500 final. *£he United-States sent three 'of her best * college mllers to the post, Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, “Penn’’ Hollowell of Harvard and Frank Crowley of Manhattan, but they wound up fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively, in a field of 12.Cunningham wilted on the back-stretch of the last lap after helping set a fast na ne Ha was passed first by Phil Edwards of Canada, then by Beccali and Jerry Comes, the British champion, who finished second.Beccall’s time clipped two seconds off Larva, Olympic record.The Finns finished 1-2-3 in the javelin, In which the leading competitors surpassed the Olympic record exactly seven times* Matti Jarvlnen, the winner, got 8ff £^ur throws ranging Xiuxu 233 to 238 feet, without even taking off his heavy athletic pants for the run up to the take off.Despite Babe Didrikson’s world record victory over her American rival, Evelyn Hall, in the 80 meter hurdled, the fifth day of the Olympic track and field championships was a big letdown for the United States forces, which had completely dominated the previous day’s program. In the men’s .team vbattle;*'America- picked*'up'only1 eight points and lost one, on the decision putting Finlay of England ahead of'Keeler, U, S. A., In the 110 meter high hurdles.The revised total for the United States, for 16 men’s events in five days, was 158 points. Finland moved into second place with 35, to Great Britain’s 34, and Japan advanced to fourth position with 28, followed by Canada and Ireland, 23 each.Inthe women’s division, meanwhile, the American team score Increased by 18 points in the hurdles, leaped to 51 1-3, as compared with Germany’s total of 15 H in second place.
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