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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE, MEDFORD. OREGON', FRIDAT, AUGUST 5, 1932. Carr-Eastman Track Duel Main Feature of Day's Olympic Program 400 METER ACES IN THIRD EPISODE OF TRACK RIVALRY Finns In Last Ditch Fight To Salvage Portion of Foot Racing Laurels Record Breaking Goes On Olympic Finals Of Yesterday By Alan Oould, (Associated Preee Sporu Editor.) LOS ANGELES. Auft. tOPi Fin lead, lut-dltob light to un at least on bright Jewel out of the wreckage of Its Olympic foot-racing crown today shared the spotlight fcotween Bill Carr and Bra Saatmen, American aoo-meter aoes, with no slackening ox me track and field record-breaking mmlv.i in .loht For five daya the "build-up" for today's two track climaxes hag sound ed Just like the old family phono graph one record after another. Thousands who have own watching th. ai founding Olympic spectacle from the outset now mingle laughter wnn tneir cneers to greet the an nouncer's old refrain: "Creating a new uiympio and world record." 45 Itecord Performances. Anyone who had fortitude to keep iracaj or a ail can emerge with the Statistical nm that 4H TttrnrA nur. formancea have been announced In n track and field events for men and women. The response yesterday could have " neara in rour different lan guage aa Lulgl Beealll won the classic olvmnlA innn mf i Olymplo record tlm of 8:81.9, for vijr uiympio root-racing vic tory of all time: aa Maui .Trvin.i led the flrat successful Finnish thrust wiin an olymplo Javelin throw of aB feet 7 inches; as Chuhel Nambu of Japan, th world record broad Jumper, added the hop, etep and jump cnsmpionsnip and world crown to hi credit, with a mm-v f ri .... 1 Inches: and, finally, a America's own auiora jssd. uidrikaon scam pered to her second world record vie tory In the 80-meter hurdles, In 11.7 seconds. Look to Lehtlnen. Finland's first championship, how ever, In an vnt which wa her Imply for going through the mo tion of spear-tosslng. won't be enough to offset her cup of bitter Bess, It youthful Laurl Lehtlnen falls today to take th 8000 meter, the last flat race title that the 'Finns hav a chance to salvage. Thl Olympiad ao far has dealt a tunning aeries of blows to the foot racing prestige 'that Finland devel oped so sensationally after the war. First and bitterest ow of all wa th banishment of Paavo Nurml, the king of her runners, on the very eve of the games, destroying Finland's best chance to win the 10.000 me ter and marathon. Then came the youthful Iso-Hollo'a defeat Sunday by th Polish star, Jan Kusoclnskl, in th 10.000. Yestarrtav mnr, crown passed for th first time o n nsjian, wnue rinland' defending entropion, narry iArva, finished In wiv ruca aiong with hi two com patriot, Purje and Luomanen. Klamath Bnv Feared. With Nurml inri wnu m.-i. - - longer there to carry on, Finland's .w-mover nope rested squarely up On young Lehtlnen hf A fi '7' newcomers and a world record breaker at the distance. . The man they feared most, for the first t'me, was an American, Ralph Hill of Oregon, still holder of the national uutuuur mue record. Hill has now ciavcioped ensatlonally at the longer distance. Tr v.. . . ,n.,.k and there la still the bright picture " "e ran away from Lehtlnen in the 8.000-metAF fti-t.i. T. . . .. . wvinj, ven though nothing but Qualifying Yet to be run, of course, are the 0o-meter ateenlechno thon, but In these events, too, the opposition zor me Finns I stronger than ever, encouraged no doubt by the urowlng conviction that the cloak i rinnu.ii invincibility has been re Carr-Eastman In n.i Meanwhll the Americans had their own private war to settle, between Kastman and Oarr. e-h ...... . weather eye out meanwhile from the iim nnguanman, Lieutenant God frey Lionel Rumpling, built very much alone the linn or th .!...., legged Scotchman, Eric Llddell, who won xno uiympio 400-meter ehsm. plonahlp In 1934 while the bagpipes Rampllng didn't look so Impreselv. In the trials vatr1 ... .. - ' "m uuuvi wrap, and there baa been nothing j w ptot nm can touch the record-smashing performances of Oarr ana aastman. Americans rrilna Deeptt. Bab Dldrikson' world record victory over her American ri val. Xvelvn Hall. In on . hurdle, the fifth day of the Olympic araca ana xieia cnampionahlp waa a big let-down for the United States force, which had completely dom inated th previous day's program. In th men' team battle, America picaea up oniy eight points and Ion on, on th decision putting Plnlay or sngiana aneaa or Keller, u. S. A In th J iu. meter hlvn huniiu Th revised total for th United State, for 18 men' vent In five oays. wa lou points. Finland mov ed Into second place with 8. with as to Great Britain' 84, and Japan ad- nnflMI to fourth nnaltlnn . I , V. o followed by Canada and Inland, 98 sen. In tti women' division, mean while, th American teem am creased bv 18 nolnt In the huriB leaped to 81Mj, a compared with Oermany s total of 18)4 la second Thursday'a track and field results. iuw piner nun iinsu. xaras; rinai Won by Lulgl BeccaU, Italy; second, Jerry Cornes, Great Britain; third Phil Edwards, Canada; fourth, Glenn Cunningham, U. S. A.; fifth, Erlck n. oweaon; sixm, i'en Hollowel! U. 8. A. Time a minute ai o w. onds. New Olymplo record. (Former iwiu o.oo dj narry narva, Fin land, 1028.) Javelin Throw Finals Won bv Mattl Jarvlnen mnl.nrf 338 feet 7 Inches. New Olympic rec ord. (Old record 918 feet t Inches "J l-unoquut, Sweden, 1038) second, Mattl Slppala, Finland, 930 feet 14 Inch: third Elno p.ntin. vh land. 335 feet 4 Inches: fourth, weimann, Germany, 999 ft. 8 Inches: fifth. 1m nrtit n a t 311 feet Inches: sixth, Kenneth i-nurcniil, u. s. A., 207 feet IK Inches. Hop, step and Jump Finals: Won by Chuhel Nambu, Japan, 81 feet 7 Inches. New Olymplo record and betters atm . Olymplo record 80 feet 10 Inches - -j n. n. winter, Auatralla. 1024. RecoimlzM ,m . ' ... " - Ui IfOL li Inches, by Mlklo Oda. Japan. 1931 ) Second Erik Bvensson, Sweden, 60 0,4 incnes; third. Kamaklchl OShlma. .Tnnan An r . ... . ,.,. ' incnes: fourth, Eamon Fitzgerald. Ireland, 40 tMi """ Wlllen Peters, Holland. 40 feet. twi. o-i '. .1 feet 10 Inches. Women's 80 Meter Hurdles Final: ' Won bv MlMnul n.h. . uiutJCKSOn, w . ' "'"I, U. B. A. CI", South Africa; ...:L ' lnIon. echaller, u. 8. A.: fifth. Violet Wehh n... ..7..,." lath. Aid. Wilson. Canada. Tim. j"111 Olympic record and betters recognized world's record. (Former oim ,. . ' -wwtu 1 1 .a set DV Miss Dldrikson In Wednesday. .mi- held bv Miss nift-ir aM...u 1030). " "Inca' PIRATES CROWDED BY AS By IIRRDKKT W. BAItKF.R Associated I'ress Sports Writer The first serious slump the Pitts burgh Pirates have experienced since the middle of May had turned the National league pennant race Into a dog fight today with four clubs close enough to the Corsalra to be dangerous. Besten In Doth end of a double header by the Brooklyn Dodgers yes terday, the Pirates' lead over the Chicago Cubs had shrunk to three and a half games. The Phillies, Boa ton Bra7ea and Dodgers followed at dlstancea ranging from 5 and one half to seven games. Three home runs by Frank (Lefty) O'Doul beat the Pirates and stretched their losing streak to six games. The first, with two op, decided the first game in Brooklyn's favor, 7 to 4. Hla second, In the eighth inning of the second game, tied the score, and hla third won the game In the tenth. 8 to 8. The Cubs, playing their first gam under their new manager, Charley unmm, trounced the Phillies. 13-1, acorlng eight runs In the second in ning. The Braves bunched three of their five hit off SI Johnson In the third Inning to score three runs and beat Cincinnati, 3 to 9. Mel Ott'a triple climaxed a three-run eighth-Inning rally and gave the New York Giants a 4-1 decision over the St. Louis Cardinals. In the American league, Bill Dickey celebrated bis return to th New York Yankees' lineup after a 30-day suspension by walloping a home run and three singles and driving In five runs a the league leader crushed Ch'.csgo, 15-3. Big George Earnshaw made It 18 for the season a he held tAe St. Louis Brown to eight hit and led the Philadelphia Athletics to a 8-3 victory. Cleveland's Indian, picked up half a game on the two kadera by outpointing the Boston Red Sox In both ends of a double header. 8-3 and 8-7 In 13 innings. Two triples, two doubles and a alngle gave Wash ington five run In the tenth frame and a 14-11 decision over Detroit. Broken wlndor. glazed by Trow bridge Cabinet Works. 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