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Americans ReachBLA400-Meter Finalss1vnsV0eRitl,cOLYMPIC STADIUM, BERLIN, Ausr. 7 lt;U.Rl—(iunnarHoeckert, a tireless Finn, pave his country a clean sweep in Olympic distance running today when he won the 5,. 000-meter finals after two Americans had crashed into the championship round of the 400-meter event,Hoeckert created a new Olympic record as he spedover the tape in front of his countryman, Lauri Lehtinen.defending champion, world record-holder and setter of the Olympic mark which Hoeckert shattered. The winner went the distance in 14 minutes, 22.2 seconds compared to the 14:30 race Lehtinen turned in four years ago atLos Angeles.America s entrants fared badly. Donald Lash olt; the University of Indiana, who had been backed break Finnishdistance supremacy, was 14th in the field of 15 whilp l/ouisAzmperini was eighth.NEGRCRUsrrleIsiodlelei;i-!:Nir-nahemlornxHISdrillsrv,an.c-a*P-ElC-ac-teiArchie Williams and .Tim-mv Luvalle, the California%negro sprinters, moved intothe finals of the 400-meter race by winning each of their semi-final heats. Harold Smallwood of Ventura,Oal., was scratched from therace when he was taken to the hospital this morning suffering another appendicitisattack.Americans also monopolized this mornings decathlon competition.! At the end of the first two events— broad jump and 100-meter run— j Robert Clark of the San Francisco I Olympic club was out in front with I 1849 points. Jack Parker of Sacra-| mento, Cal., was second with 1084 and Glenn Morris of Denver, the I favorite, was third with 1610 points.The weather was appressive and 1 the sky slightly overcast during the afternoon events. The crowd num-i bored 95,000.In placing one two in the 5,000 and sixth with llmari Salminen, won the 10,000 meter race on Sunday, Finland soared into second | place ahead of Germany in the unofficial team point standings. The Finns now have 57 1-4 points cnm-! pared to 54 3-4 for Germany. United .States leads with 153.It was the fourth consecutive timeFinland had won the 5.000.A Swede, John Jonsson finished third and Hohei Murakoso of Japan, who was fourth in the 10,000, was fourth also in the 5.000 Josef Noli of Poland was fifth.Lehtinen and Jonsson both broke the former Olympic mark. Lehtin-en’s time was 14:25.8 and Jonsson s 14:29. Murakoso equalled the markBY HENRY McLEMORE (United Press Staff Correspondent)BERLIN, Aug. 7.—The Reich’s Sport field dessing room, with the flag of “Neusseland” on its door was a madhouse. That is. as near a madhouse as a half hundred wildly excited subjects of Edward VIII could make it.In the center of the little cement-walled room, which reeked with liniment. was Jack Lovelock, looking for 'all the world like the last man in the world you would name as the worlds greatest miler. But as he stood there, his blond curls dis-heaveled and with a shy grin on his face, that s Just what he was. For, a fewr minutes before with one of the greatest sports crowds in history looking on. he had outrared the pick of the world to win the Olympic 1500 meters championship.DEN i Monal rby expDenverblankerfrom TbeforeGriff three 1 Dailey, hits, ir nego playerBorg rftng w on six a playDailfby Splt;threefannedTheBORGALL-fiDailGriffitl axkiglethetrmtchBo-mi-rkstoenead-51 AY USE JESSE OWENS IN 490-METER RELAYOLYMPIC STADIUM Berlin.Aug. 7 (UP—Jesse Owens, the triple Olympic winner from Ohio State, may get a chance to make it aquadruple.Head Coach Lawson Robertson of the American team indicated today he was considering using Owens in the 40 meters relay in place of Martin Glickman of New York City.Explaining why he contemplated drafting Owens the coach said:“My idea is to pick the team I think most likely to win. Germany has a whale of a team and we will need to be at our best/’\SMALLWOOD UNDERGOES SUCCESSFUL OPER ATIONBERLIN, Aug. 7 ^-Harold Smallwood, quarter-miler from Ventura, Calif., today underwent asuccessful emergency operation for removal of his appendix.ftUr,VLEKYnorenoretsfarreal,•styletomsleart-ALL PRE-LOS ANGELES OLYMPIC MARKS FRASERBERLIN. Aur. 7 !U.P'—All Olympic marks made before the 1932 games at Los Angeles for events still on the Olympic program have been removed from the record books.Of all the marks set in the I^os Angeles games, only four remained on the books today at the conclusion of 16 events in mens track and field competition. The records which defied the Olympians of 1926 were the 800 and 10,000 meter runs. 400-meter hurdles and javelin throw.One the 100-meter dash, was equaled.Although it is certain the all-time high of 19 Olympic records, set in liOS Angeles, will not be broken during the Berlin games, already three world and eleven Olympic marks have been shattered, i Six of these Olympic marks were recorded bv Americans. One of the ! world records was accounted for by Forrest tSpec) Towns of the United • States in the 110-meter hurdle* andthe Olympic and world marks jequaled were by Jesse Owens in the j100-meter run. !Unpleasant weather has prevailed during mast of the Berlin games, !making the track and runways jslower The California games were ; conducted in perfect weather andon lightning-fast tracks.Of all the world records made, none was more brilliant than that of Jack liOvelock of Newr Zealandwho shaved a full second from BillBonthron.s mark in taking the 1500-meter title.A shade behind Lovelock s cla.Naicrace was Towns’ 14 1 hurdle time recorded in a semi-final heat yesterday. That time also reduced the Olympic record of three-tenths ofa second.The third record while not sensational to watch, was the 52 feet, 5 5-16 inch hop. step and jump mark of Tajima of Japan yesterday which shattered all world marks and went 11 1-32 inches above the Olympic ; record.Jesac Owens contributed record performances in scoring hki “triple He shaved a half second from the300-meter Olympic mark; equalled the loo-meter mark and shatteredth* broad jump mark which had been on the books since 1928.Behind hfm when he broke the tape in world record time, vainly trying to match the power in hi* slim, girlish legs, were such barrel-chested powerhouse runners as Glenn Cunningham of the United State*, Lug! Beccali of Italy, Archie San Romani of the United States. Phil Edwards of Canada, and seven others.You were pretty hot today, weren’t you? said the American reporter.Iiovelock grinned.“I was a bit wound up, wasn’t I. he answered, and perhaps it's well that 1 was for that was a pretty brisk bit of business out there, wasn't It?Do you think you could have run faster. Jack? someone asked.No, I don't think so,’’ the little New Zealander answered.Then, why did you look over your shoulder in the stretch? That must have slowed you up a hit when you saw you were in safely.No. Lovelock answered with a grin. I always have to peck, you know. It’s very satisfying when j you’re ahead.Listen, Jack, said the American reporter, “quit stalling and tell us what we want to know, Could you have run faster race than you did? jLovelock smiled and, turning to the British reporters, said: “These American reporters! They will pin! you down. They’ve had me at Princeton and now they have me at Berlin. Well, I'll say this much.I knew I could run to a world record today. I didn’t know If it would be good enough to win, but I knew someone would have* to do mighty well to beat me. There’* no telling what, would have happened in the stretch had we been all together.There wasn’t an American coach who saw the race who didn’t say that Lovelock, in winning, was the hottest thing he ever saw on the track and that he finished with lots of run in his legs.Frank Welch, who coaches Ban Romani, said it was the greatest performance he had seen in all his years of Coaching and that he was proud his boy could finish as well as fourth in such a field, j ‘Good God, Welch said. “I » clocked him at 56 for his last quarter. You can’t beat that in an auto-l mobile!Wet and r M. Wf Highveastplace, Mrs. Boy, lt;for t Y did ta ing a lunch 30 mi to thaboutA bomw*e atiredeverymadeSidJoecouldwithmayttime.Medidntrip.we geverthisdiffeBehis ipullt whei W itor j hike havtprotFI; old. firstnevil TnewThe R a 1] but E wit; but.L a t fail is iliev C mo Ow C t hi tai Yo Ilin 141neiSOTILovelock, who mull have been kidding when he allowed Sidney Wooderson to beat him three times in England prior to the games, was never worse than fourth at anv time In the race. He took complete charge 300 meters from home when he turned on the heat to sail by C unningham and move to the top of the pack. lie never waft headed. After breaking the tape he swept along half wav around the track, still in beautiful stride.Because of incorrect placing of the starting line lovelock, who was on the far outside, had to run three yards farther than Beccali on the pole. I asked him if he knew the line was in error before the start and he said yes, he did. Asked why he didn’t complain, he said: **! didn’t think it was worth bothering about. I felt very fit and didn’t think three yards would make much differencepuinrmonhothlt;th'wefoiMihi!reifclt;cotoatsuwihawlt;hiI 1Lovelocks great time was a severe disappointment to Cunningham but the Kansas boy was sport ing aboutit.There s no use saving that I am no* disappointed, for you know this is the second time I have broken the world record for the l 500 and still finished second. he said. ‘ Biiiy Bonthron did it to me in Milwaukee two years ago and now Iaj clock does n today. But I don’t guess a man has much right ro complain when he runs * 3 48 4 ra^eerJin\titc•IAdditional SportsPage 3oa*fISHOOTS KINF UNDER HARLINGEN, Aug. 7 uP—Profes-| fional Tony Butler of Harlingengave golfers something to shoot at | today, a 62-stroke 18-hole round that | clipped nine shots from par and e -! tabUahed a new record for the Mu-j n id pal course here, lie collected 10j birdies and seven per*; on his record-breaking round. H* l ad held thej previous cour«lt;sA r*rord of 64.
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