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Washington, D. C., Wednesday, August 4, 1948—A—17 ***
Win, Lose, or
By FRAHCiS STANN
Local Boy Makes Good
It came as no surprise to the locally-based National Rifle
Association when 20-year-old Arthur Edwin Cook, a little University
of Maryland sophomore, was announced as the winner of the small
bore rifle Olympic championship.
"Cookie was a cinch as far as the nka was
concerned," said one spokesman at the plush
Rhode Island avenue office. "He’s the best rifleman
in the world and he proved it. He won easily.”
Now to the lay mind it might seem as il
voung Mr. Cook had a bit of competition in
London. He scored 599 points out of a possible 600,
same score as a more mature teammate, Walter
Tomsen of Flushing, N. Y., but Cook was awarded
the title because, according to the Associated Press,
he “put more shots in the center of the target.”
It probably wasn’t so close, however, says the NRA,
which confesses to a certain deceptiveness as far as
rifle scoring is concerned.
"The third place man. a Swede, finished w'lth
Arthur cook. 597 points," pointed out the NRA expert. “That
sounds as if he were close, but he wasn't. Two points in rifle is
like 10 runs in baseball.
"The best shooter won. We look for Cook to go on and win the
British championship coming up and we wouldn’t be surprised if he
came back here and won the American title at Quantico in October.
The kid can shoot.”
Once Upon a Time He Couldn't Shoot
But little Arthur Cook couldn't always shoot. Not so many years
ago he was pretty sorry with a rifle. A native Washingtonian, Cookie
went to a Boy Scout camp back^n 1939, fired a rifle for the first time
and promptly was voted the lad least likely to succeed in Troop 32 at
Camp Freestone.
He was so horrible that his scoutmaster. Amos Heimer, was moved
to give him special lessons. And still Cook wasn’t very expert. If he
had quit it would have oeen interpreted as a very understandable move.
But the little guy who built himself up to 105 pounds while
winning the National Junior Championship in 1946 didn’t give up.
He went to Tech High School and finally emerged as the best shooter
in the school. Then he caoght fire at Camp Perry two years ago and
■won his championship. Then he was invited to attend the University
of Maryland, a very rifle-conscious institution.
Now rifle shooters are not very prosperous people, as a rule.
At Maryland the little fellow, who still looks 14, was not bestowed with
the favors that a football hero like Lu Gambino, for instance, receives.
Cookie sold rifle equipment—gloves, telescopes, books, etc.—to get the
necessary scratch to firp and. according to the NRA wrhich long ago
put the finger on the kid, he became progressively more expert.
His Rifle Went Sour Out of Generosity
After his sensational exploits in 1946 at Camp Perry, which is the
world series of the rifle game. Cook apparently skidded a bit. But this
was readily explained yesterday at the NRA headquarters.
"His rifle went sour," proclaimed one of the shooting wizards.
"That can happen, you know. Probably Cook was as good or better
than ever, but w'hen a shooter's rifle goes sour the guy squeezing the
trigger is sunk.
“In baseball a hitter can break a bat and order a new stick.
After two or three times at the plate he's used to his new bat.
But that doesn’t hold for a rifleman.
"It takes a good year for a shooter to get used to a rifle. That’s
what happened to Cook in 1947. although he still rated as one of the
three best marksmen in the country."
How does a rifle go sour? "In several ways,” says the NRA.
“In Cook’s case he took a very good rifle, although second-hand, to
the University of Maryland. It was far the best rifle at the school.
Like the nice kid he is, he loaned it to everybody on the squad.
Well, after so many thousands of rounds are fired it’s a cinch that a
target rifle is going to go sour."
A 'Grand Slam' in the Jones Manner
When the American Olympic team returns from England it will
have won more gold medals than any other country and one of those
medals will belong to this pint-sized sharpshooter, Arthur Edwin Cook.
It counts just as much as Harrison Dillard's medal and the trophies ■
won by stars in swimming and other more publicized sports.
To the National Rifle Association, however, Cook looms as the
most important athlete in the Olympics. He's considered a lock to
annex the British title and a favorite in the Nationals at Quantico.
"If he wins all three—Olympics, British and American—it'll be
the equal of Bobby Jones' grand slam," NRA people proclaim. “This
never has been done in rifle, as far as w'e know, but this kid is just
the shooter who can do it."
You sort of gather that little Artie Cook is the NRA's fair
haired boy.
Olympic Track, Field Summary
110-METER HURDLES FINAL 1—Por
ter. U. S. A Time. 13 0 seconds (new
Olympic record; former mark *et by For
rest Towns. U S. A . a? Berlin in 1030
and equalled by Porter in semifinals to
day; 2—Scott. U S. A <14 1. equals pre
vious Olympic record»: 3—Dixon. U. S
(14.1. equals previous Olvmpir record!.
4—Triulzi. Argentina 5—Gardner. Aus
tralia; 6—Lidman. Sweden.
1..500-METER RUN <1.010 vards!
'qualifying heats: First three in each cf
four heats qualify for final August <>'
First heat J—Lennart Strano Sweden
2—Erik Jorgensen. Denmark —Don
Gehrmann. U. S. A. Time. 3:64.2.
Secnd heat: 1 — Willi SliJkhuLs. Holland:
2—Vacla Cevona Czechoslovakia 3—
D S Johansson. Finland Time. 3:52.4
Third heat: 1—Henri Erickson Sweden:
2—G W Nankeville. Great Britain: —
J. Barthel. Luxembourg. Time. 3:53.b
Fourth heat: l—Gunar Bergkvist.
Swpden. 2—Marcehl Hansenn^. France;
—I K. Garay Hungary Time 3:5l.b
JAVELIN THROW FINAL: 1—Kaj T
Pautavaara. Finland. 2 2b feet 10*2 inches
2—Steve Seymour. U.S A. 221 feet ll't,
inches. 3—J. Varszegi Hungaty. 210 fe* t
1 1 inches: 4—P K. Vesterinen. Finland
210 feet 2 inches: 5—Odd Maehlum. 214
feet 3V2 inches; o—Martin Biles, U. S. A .
213 feet inches.
WOMEN S SHOT PUT FINALS: 1—M
O. M Osterme.vcr Fiance. 45 feet 1'^
inches; 2—A. Pissinini. Italy. 42 feet 1 1 1 a
inches: 2—P. Schaefer Austria. 4 2 feet
J J inches: 4—P. Veste. France. 42 feet
7l/2 inches: 5—J. Komarkova Czechoslo
vakia. 42 feet 4’,2 inches; 5—A. Bruk.
Austria 41 feet
WOMENS BROAD JUMP FINAL: 1
V. O Gyarmati. Hungary, is feet 8'4
inches: 2—N. Simonetto de Portela. Ar
gentina. is feet 4*2 inches: 2—A B. Ley
man. Sweden. 18 feet 2’j inches; 4—G. J.
M V. D. Kade-Koudijs. Holland. 18 feet
3*4 inches: 5— . J Karelse. Holland. 18
feet 2*4 inches: 6—K. M. Russell, Jamaica.
38 feet '3 inch.
WOMENS M>-METER HURDLES final
(87 5 yards): 1—F E Blankers-Koen,
Holland. 11.2 seconds (new world and
Olympic record; old record. 3 1.2. set by
Claudia Testoni. Italy, in Garnusch-Par
tenkirchen. Germany, in 1929 and equaled!
by Mrs. Blankers-Koen in Amsterdam.
Holland in 1942 and again in semifinal,
yesterday Former Olympic record of 11 .(i
set oy Trebisonda Valla of Italy in Berlin
in 1 93t>'. 2—Maurine Gardner. Great
Britain. 11.2 (also establishes world and
Olympic record*; 2—Shirley B. Strickland.
Australia. 114: 4—Y. Monginou. France:
5—Maria Oberbreyer. Austria: —L. Lom
tak Czechoslovakia (times for last three1
places not announced).
1 10 METER HURDLES SEMIFINALS
(120 2 yards) (first three in each heat
qualify for finals later today):
FIRST HEAT: 1—Craig Dixon. U. S A
(14 2 seconds); 2—P. J. Gardner. Aus
tralia (14.5): 3—Haakon Lidman, Swe
den (14.fi)
SECOND HEAT: 1 —Bill Porter. U. S. A.
<11.1 seconds: equals Olympic record es
tablished by Forrest Towns. U. S. A . in
Berlin In 1936); 2—Clyde Scott. U. S A.
(14.2); 3—A. U. Triulzi. Argentina (14.fi).
4 00 METERS (437.45. yards) (first,
round i: First two in each of 12 heats
qualify for second round later today):
FIRST HEAT: 1—J. P. Reardon. Eire:
2—M. Racic. Yugoslavia: 3—Yinglong
Chen. Chins. Time. 48.4 seconds.
SECON DHEAT: 1—Herb McKenley.
Jamaica: 2—R. Larsson. Sweden; 3—F
Banhalmi. Hungary. Time, 48.4 seconds.
THIRD HEAT: 1—2. Sabolovic. Yugo
slavia; 2—K. Lundqvist. Sweden; 3—A S
Pocovi. Argentina. Time. 49.9 seconds.
Fourth heat: 1—V. G Rhoden. Jamaica:
2—Dennis Shore. South Africa 3—Oscar
Hardmeier. Switzerland. Time, 48 4 sec
onds
Fifth heat: 1—Jacques J J. Lunis,
France: 2—F. Alnevik. Sweden: 3—C
Mongres Caldera. Mexico. Time, 49 3
Sixth heaf 1—Dave Rolen. TJ. S. A.:
2—J. L. Bartram. Australia: 3-—H. F.
Dill. Bermuda. Time. 50.1 seconds.
Seventh heat; I—L. C Lewis. Great
Britain: 2—B Vade. Norway; 3—E. I.
McCullough. Canada. Time. 48.9 seconds
Eighth heat: I—Mai Whitfield. U. S
A 2—W. Roberts. Great Britain. 3—D
C. McFarlane. Canada Time. 48.3.
Ninth heat: 1—Arthur Wint. .Jamaica:
2— Frances Schewetta. France: 3—J. H.
De Saram. Ceylon Time. 4 7.7 seconds.
Tenth heat: I—Morris Curotta. Aus
tralia: 2—R Costa Remos, Brazil; 3—
Raymond Crapet. France. Time—49.1
seconds.
Eleventh heat: 1—George Guida.
U. S. A : 2—D. C. Pugh. Great Britain:
3— G. Ehlers Trostel. Greece. Time.
49 seconds.
Twelfth heat: 1—H. Kurnen. Bel
gium: 2—R M McFarlanf. Canada: 3—
R. Sigurdsson. Iceland. Time. 50 seconds.
100 METERS <437.45 yards! <second
round, first three in each heat qualify for
.'emiflnal tomorrow!.
First heat: 1—Whitfield. U. S. A : 2—
Rhoden. Jamaica: 3—Costa Remos. Brazil.
Time. 48 seconds.
Second heat: 1—Wint. Jamaica' 2—Cur
otta. Australia 3—Shore. South Africa
Time. 47.7 seconds.
Third heat: 1—McKenley. Jamaica:
Guida. U. S. A . 3—Larsson. Sweden.
Time. 48 seconds.
Fourth heat: 1—Bolen. U. S. A : 2—
Reardon. Eire: 3—McFarlane. Canada.
Time. 48 seconds.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Birmingham. 3-5: Memphis. 2-0.
Atlanta- 2-0: Little Rock. 1-2.
Mokhile. 7; Chattanooga. 0.
Nashville. 11; New Orleans 3. ,
Baseball Standings and Schedules •
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 4. 1948.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
Cleve., 5: Washington, 3.
New York, 15: Detroit, 3.
Boston. 15; St. Louis. 8.
Chicago, 2; Phila., 1 110'.
Games Today.
New York at Detroit.
Philadelphia at Chicago
Boston at St. Louis <n.).
Only games scheduled.
Games Tomorrow.
Washington at Cleveland.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
New York at Detroit.
Only gaross scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
Cincinnati, 5: Boston. 4
Chi. at Brooklyn, rain.
At. L. at Mevr York, rain
Pittftwgh *t Phila rain.
Games Today.
Chicago at Brooklyn (n.).
Jgt. L. at New York <2>.
Pittsb’gh at Phila., (rain).
Cincinnati at Boston in.).
Games Tomorrow.
Chicago at Brooklyn (2).
Cincinnati at Boston <n.).
6t. Louis at New York
t Pittsburgh at Phila., (n.).
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Olympic Mark Is Made
In 13.9 Victory; Scott
Second, Dixon Third
(Continued From First Page.)
• - —
; own world record in winning the
women’s 80-meter hurdles in 11.2
seconds.
Routavaar captured the men's
javelin throw with a toss of 228
feet 9'-i inches. Dr. Steve Seymour
of Los Angeles placed second on
221 feet 6 inches and J. Varszegi of
Hungary was third with 219 feet
9H inches.
Martin Biles, University of Cali
fornia instructor, wound up in sixth
place with 213 feet, 8 inches. He
led the qualifiers into the finals
with 222 feet 'i inch, but under
i Olympic rules that effort did ' not
carry over into the finals.
Bob Likins of San Jose State Col
lege, third American in the javelin,
finished eighth with 211 feet 7
inches.
It was Finland's first victory of
the games. Seymour's second posi
tion was the best ever achieved
by the United States in this Euro
pean-dominated event.
Three in 400-Meter Second Round.
Mai Whitfield, Air Force sergeant
from Ohio State who won the 800
meter championship, took both his
first and second round heats in the
400-meter dash, an event which will
be concluded tomorrow.
Whitfield won his first-round test
in 48.3 seconds and the second in
48 flat. There was no competition
either time. He contented himself
with coasting home.
The second heat in the second
round went to Arthur Wint of
Jamaica, who duplicated his first
round time of 47.7.
Herb McKenley. the favorite from
Jamaica, took the third heat in 48
flat, also under wraps, leading
George Guida of Villanova by a
step. The first three finishers in
each heat qualified for tomorrow's
semi-finals. But Guida had to come
from far back to move into qualify
ing territory.
Dave Bolen of Colorado, the third
American 400-meter man. won the
fourth and last heat of the second
round, but only by a narrow margin.
His time was 48 flat.
Gehrmann Qualifies In 1,500.
Don Gehrmann of Wisconsin
qualified nicely in the first heat of
the 1,500-meter run, in which Len
nart Strand of Sweden, rated the
world's best, finished at the side of
Erik Jorgesen of Denmark.
Gehrmann was 3 yards back, run
ning easily and looking over his
shoulder at the fourth man, Hol
land's F. A. De Ruyter. The first
three in each of four heats qualified
for the finals. Strand's winning
time was 3:54.2.
Clem Eischen of Washington
State was shut out in the second
1,500-meter heat, finishing sixth, 55
yards back of Willi Slijkhuis of
Holland, who won in 3:52.4.
Eischen, a big, powerful runner,
■was unfortunate in that he couldn’t
get to the pole at the start and was
shoved outside most of the way. He
was close to the leaders until the
last lap. when he faded.
The surprise of the third heat was
the scratching of Gaston Reif of
Belgium, who won the 5,000 meters.
Henri Eriksson of Sweden won that
heat in 3:53.8.
Sink Is Shut Out.
Roland Sink of Southern Cali
fornia was shut out in the fourth
heat despite a brave last-lap sprint
which landed him in fourth place.
Gunar Bergkvist of Sweden won it
jin 3:51.8. with Marcel Hansenne of
France second. K. Vefling, who ran
for the University of California all
spring but now wears Norway’s col
ors, was sixth.
American girls continued to get
pushed around by their stronger,
faster European sisters. Both United
States entries in the shot put failed
to reach the finals.
The best that Mrs. Frances
Kaszubski, 32-year-old Cleveland
secretary, could do was 37 feet
lti inches, placing her 13th, just
back of the 12 qualifiers. Mrs.
Dorothy Dodson of Mundelein, 111.,
was farther back with 36 feet
3'4 inches.
Micheline Ostermeyer, the cur
vaceous French girl who won the
discus, led the shot put qualifiers
with 43 feet l>/« inches.
In the women's broad jump, the
United States managed to send one
of its three entries into the finals.
Emma Reed of Nashville, Tenn.,
with a leap of 17 feet 4 inches, was
just under the qualifying distance
of 17 feet 4>2 inches.
However, only 10 girls made the
required distance, so the American
was passed on to the finals. Lillian
Young of Chicago barely missed the
first 12 with a jump of 17 feet 3
inches. Jean Walraven of North
Olmstead, Ohio, was not far behind
with 17 feet.
World Record for Dutch Girl.
Mrs. Blankers-Koen, golden-haired
Dutch housewife, clipped a tenth of
a second off her own world record
in winning the 80-meter hurdles,
her second championship of the
games.
The world mark of 11.3 seconds
originally was set by Claudia Tes
toni of Italy, at Garmisch-Parten
kirchen, Germany, in 1939 and tied
by Mrs. Blankers-Koen at Amster
dam in 1942.
Mrs. Blankers-Koen. who previ
ously won the women's 100-meter
dash, is well on her way to eclipsing
the performance of America's Babe
Didrikson—now Mrs. George Zah
arias—who won two Olympic titles
and placed second in the high jump
at Los Angeles in 1932.
Passes Up Broad Jump.
Mrs. Blankers-Koen also Is entered
in the high jump and the relay,
giving her a chance for two more
first-place medals. She withdrew
from the broad jump, in which she
holds the world record, to avoid ag
gravating a leg injury.
What the lithe Dutch woman
might have done in the hurdles can
only be surmised. She was off to a
poor start, last in a field of six, but
by the second hurdle she was even
with the field and she pulled ahead
steadily.
The runnerup was Maurine Gart
ner of Great Britain, who was so
close that she also was timed in
11.2 seconds. Shirley Strickland of
Australia was third. No American
girl managed to reach the final
TEXAS LEAGUE.
HOuaton. 3-4: Oklahoma City. 2-10.
Shreveport. 7-11: Dallas, fi-S.
Tulsa. 4-3: San Antonio. 1-1.
Beaumont, 9; Fort Worth. 7,
YANKEE SCORES COMEBACK—Here's Mel Patton (third from
! left), who was a disappointing fifth although favored to annex
S the 100-meter dash in the Olympics last week, capturing the
i 200-meter event in the Olympics at the Wembley (England)
stadium yesterday. The Southern California runner just beat
out Teammate Barney Ewell (left), former Penn State star. Left
to right, are Ewell. Cliff Bourland, Southern California, who
finished fifth; Patton, Lloyd La Beach of Panama, who finished
third, and Herb McKenley of Jamaica, who finished fourth.
—AP Wirephoto.
And here is Wilbur Thompson, also of Southern California,
winning the shotput event with a record heave of 56 feet 2
inches. His teammates. Francis Delaney of San Francisco and
Jim Fuchs of Yale, finished second and third, respectively.
—AP Wirephoto.
Chevy Chase Major Is Second
In Pentathlon Won by Swede
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Aug. 4 —Capt. W. O. G.
Grut of Sweden finished eighth in
the cross-country run today to win
the Olympic pentathlon with a
record score of 16 points.
The versatile artillery captain al
ready had finished first in three
! phases of the competition—riding,
Ifencing and swimming—and fifth in
the other—marksmanship.
Maj. George B. Moore of Chevy
(Chase, Md.. won second place in
ithe pent athlon's general classifies
Ition after finishing fourth in the
final event. He had 47 points.
Moore ran the 2's miles in 15
minutes 7.5 seconds.
The race was won by Grats
fellow countryman. Lt. K. S. Wehlin.
who did the distance in 14:09.9.
Grafs time was 15:28.9.
Second and third places went to
two Finns. Lt. L. T. Vilkko had
14:21.9 and Capt. V. Platan had
13:24.6.
Lt. Richard Graenther of Omaha.
Nebr., finished eighth in the general
classification with 81 points and
Lt. Hale Baugh of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, wound up 13th with 96.
The United States team, which
was leading until today’s cross
country test, lost out to the strong
finish of the durable Swedes and
Finns.
Sweden W’on the team title with
167 points, followed by Finland
with 221. The Americans had 224.
Moore ran the cross country to
day with a slightly sprained ankle.
Forty-seven competitors from 17
nations took part in the pentathlon.
Forty-three finished.
Graenther was 19th in today's
race with a time of 16 minutes 4.7
seconds. Baugh came in 40th in
1835.4.
Maj. Moore is stationed at West
Point but uses the home of his
parents, Col. and Mrs. George A.
Moore at 209 Elm street, Chevy
Chase, Md., as his permanent ad
dress.
He attended Princeton Prep at
i Lawrenceville, N. J., and graduated
from the United States Military
Academy in 1941. He is 28 years old.
MAJ. GEORGE B. MOORE.
—U. S. Signal Corps Photo.
Maj. Moore was a member of the
track team at West Point, with the
mile his specialty, and also was
captain of the cross country team.
He always has been an excellent
swimmer and took to riding as a
youngster as his father was in the
cavalry. His Army training nat
urally helped his marksmanship
but he is a fairly recent devotee
of the fifth phase of the pentathlon
—fencing.
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with the 1st Armored Division in
Africa and Germany, and in all
spent 41 months overseas and re
ceived two citations in addition to
the Purple Heart. He married an
English girl in 1945.
Col. and Mrs. Moore and their son
lived in Washington from 1921
through 1924, and returned here
after the colonel received his re
tirement in 1946.
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Lee of U. S. Paces High Diving,
With Harlan Placing Second
WEMBLEY, England. Aug, 4.—Dr.
Sammy Lee, 28-year-crld American
medical lieutenant from Pasadena,
Calif., led the field today in the
men's Olympic high dive champion
ship after four of the eight dives.
Bruce Harlan of Ohio State Uni
versity, the Olympic springboard
champion, was second in point totals
at the halfway point.
Miller Anderson, also . of Ohio
State, who was favored to win the
tower diving event, was scratched
from the competition at the last
minute because of injuries he re
ceived Monday in a practice fall
from the platform.
The high diving will be completed
tomorrow. The Americans finished
one-two-three in the springboard,
with Harlan winning and Anderson
gaining second.
Lee scored 51.51 points and Harlan
48.94 for their first four dives from
the high board. L. Brunnhage of
Sweden was third with 47.93 and
Peter Heatly, a 24-year-old Edin
burgh University lecturer, was fourth,
with 45.13.
Jack Wild of South Africa took
the first heat in the men's Olympic
100-yard backstroke competition in
1:08.5, with C. Kievit of Holland,
second, and J. Veggazzi of Argen
tina, third.
The first two placers in each of
six heats and the four fastest also
rans qualify for the backstroke
semifinals tomorrow night. ■
Bruce Bourke of Australia won
the second heat in 1:11.3, with I. S.
De Fonseca of Brazil, second, and
U. Kovar of Czechoslovikia, third.
John Brockway of Britain captured
the third heat in 1:09.2, with M.
Craves of Argentina, second, and
C. Mejia of Mexico, third.
Allen Stack, the Yale University
swimming team captain, won the
fastest of the backstroke heats in
1:06.6 without letting himself go all
out. He finished well ahead of Albert
Kinnear. Britain. E. Silva Fonseca,
Brazil, was third.
Ensign Robert Cowell of the
United States Navy and Pittsburgh,
Pa., won the fifth hear in time just
three-tenths of a second slower than
Stack's. R. Pirolley of France was
second and D. Shanks of Bermuda
third.
George Vallery, 21-year-old Eu
ropean backstroke champ from
France who is rated a serious chal
lenger to Stack and the American
contingent, won the sixth heat in
1:07.4, the third best time of the
prelims.
Howard Patterson of Michigan
State placed second to Vallery in
1:09.3, as all three Americans qual
ified for the semifinals. H. Silva of
Brazil was third in the heat won
by Vallery.
The Denmark women’s 400-meter
relay team hung up a new Olympic
record of 4:33.5 in defeating the
United States girls in a preliminary
heat. The American girls, finishing
second, also beat the old mark of
4:36 set by the Dutch team in the
1936 games at Berlin. The Ameri
cans were timed in 4:34.1.
Greta Andersen, newly crowned
women’s 100-meter freestyle cham
pion from Denmark, and Ann Curtis
Of San Francisco hit the water to
gether on the anchor lap of their
heat.
Their race down and back in the
50-meter pool was a virtual rerun
of the 100-meter finals of two nights
ago. The Danish girl again de
feated the tall blond from the
University of California by a margin
of two yards.
How Nations Stand
In Olympic Games
Nation. A B. C. D E. T.
U S. A. _331' 3 47 24 50—265
Sweden _ 44 . 5 2 35— 86
Australia_ 20 4 . 5 35— 64
Turkey _ 4 __ 60— 54
Hungary _ 12 0 7 21— 40
France_ 14 14 8 3 4— 43
Holland _ 4 14 .. 17 — 35
Finland_ 10 6'.. . . 10— 25
Switzerland_ 6 _ 20— 26
Denmark _ 3 4 __ 13 5— 25
Great Britain _ 12 6.. 2 5— 24
Norway _ 16 . ._ .. 5— 21
Italy _ 16 5_ . — 21
Austria _ 12 2 6— 20
Czechoslovakia 15 _ __ — 15
Belgium _ 11 - - ._ - -— 11
Jamaica _ 0 1 — — —— 10
Peru _ .. .. -- 10— 10
Panama_ 8__ — 8
Yugoslavia _ 5. 2.. _.— <
Poland _ 3 3 .. .. ..— 6
Canada _ 1 6 .. ._ __— 6
Cevlon _ 6 - .. ..— ,6
Mexico _ - -- 3-. -—/I
Brazil _ 2 .. .. .. — 2
Argentina_ - — 1 __ . — 1
Spain _ — — — -- 1— 1
A—Men's track.
B—Women's track
C—Men s swimming
D—Women's swimming
E — Miscellaneous. Includes fencing,
wrestling, shooting, etc.
F—Totals.
Main Event K. 0. Victor
Seeks Tougher Foes
By the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 —Tommy
Campbell, flashy Rock Island, 111.,
lightweight, was looking around for
some of California’s better boxers
today.
Making his first Olympic audi
torium main event start, Campbell
last night scored a technical knock
out over Tony. Mar of Mexico City.
U. S. Yacht Is Victor
In Star Class Race
By the Associated Press
TORQUAY. England, Aug. 4 —The
largest yachts—the six-meter inter
nationals and the dragons—were
first out of Torquay harbor today
as the Olympic yachting competition
entered its second day.
Ralph L. Edwards, jr., of Bay
Shore, N. Y., who finished second;
yesterday in the Firefly Dinghy.
race, scored a third today.
Sweden won the one-man eve&tr
in 1 hour 28 minutes for the 5.6
mile course. Uruguay was second
in 1:28.55 and Edwards' United
States entry third in 1:30.27. Brit
ain was fourth and Holland fifth.
The United States’ yacht won the
star class race over a distance of
approximately 10 miles with Britain
second and Italy third. Piloted by
Hilary H. Smart of Morton, Conn..
the United States yacht crossed the
line in 1 hour 52 minutes 12 seconds.
Britain won the swallow class race
over the same distance with Can
ada second and Sweden third The
United States entry finished eighth i
in the swallow race. Britain's win
ning time was 1 hour 56 minutes 54
seconds. The United States time
was 2 hours 2 minutes 17 seconds.
Cook,OlympicChamp,
Started Rifle Career
With Boy Scouts
Arthur Cook, the smiling 30
year-old Washingtonian who yes
terday won the 50-meter small bore
rifle championship at the Olympics,
has been shooting for 10 years, and
the victory over the world's best
marksmen caps a long series of
triumphs he has scored in this
country.
“Cookie'* who resides at 1355
Montague street N.W., qualified in
the Olympic trials for both the 22
and .30 caliber competitions, but it
happened that they were carded
at the same time, so he decided
to shoot it out with the 22 marks
men.
The “baby" of the Olympic team,
who weighs only 114, is the son of
Mrs. Arthur E. Cook. His father#
an assistant Secretary of Labor in
the Hoover Administration, dieft
several years ago.
Young Arthur became a shooting
enthusiast when he was in the Cub
Scouts, deciding he liked that bet
ter than model airplanes which tie
had made and flown successfully.
When he entered McKinley Tech,
he joined the rifle team, where he
came under the eye of T. G. Arnold,
a National Rifle Association in
structor who resides in Hyattsville.
Mr. Arnold is credited with his sub
sequent development.
Young Cook is an engineering
student at the University of Mary
land, and his week ends generally
are spent in shooting competition.
Often, Mrs. Cook accompanies him
“for luck,” but she declined to make
the Olympic trip.
Arthur scored 599 out of a possible
600 for his Olympic gold medal.
The same mark was racked up by
Walter Tomsen of Flushing, Long
Island, but the Washington lad had
43 bullseyes to 42 for Tomsen.
U. S. Fencers Put Out
Of Foils Competition
By the Associated Press
WEMBLEY, England, Aug. 4 —
America's last two representatives
in the Olympic men's foils compe
tition—Eilvio Giolito of Woodside.
N. Y., and Dean Cetrulo of Holly
wood, Calif., were eliminated today
in the semifinals.
Giolito was able to score only one
win in the first pool of qualifiers.
Cerulo was beaten by M. Di Rosa
of Italy in a second pool fence-off.
Both Cetrulo and Di Rosa finished
with four wins each, requiring an
extra joust to decide the finalist.
Survivors are:,,
First pool—J Buhan. France; Chrlitia*
N D’Orlola, France; J Emrys Lloyd. Brit
ain; I. M. W.. Rliben, Denmark.
Second pool-—R. Bouanol, France:
Maszlay. Hungary; P. Valcke. Belgium;
M Di Rosa. Italy
Christian D'Orlole, in-year-old French
man holds the world's foils championship,
is favored in tonight's finals.
Ann Gray Advances
In Middle Atlantic
Sptcia! Dispatch to Th* Star
BALTIMORE, Aug. 4. — Top
seeded Ann Gray of. Washington
led the advance in the Middle At
lantic women’s tennis tournament
by winning the first two matches
yesterday. She topped Jane Free
man, 6—0, 6—4, and Gertrude
Nicholson, 6—0, 6—1.
Third-seeded Charlotte Decker of
Washington, also advanced, elimi
nating Frances Barry of Washing
ton, 6—2, 7—5, and Elaine Cromwell
of Rockville. 6—3, 6—3. Willie
Herbert of Washington, seeded sec
ond, defaulted.
Among those eliminated yester
day was Carter Dawson of Rockville,
when beaten by Mrs. W. D. Kehne,
8—6, 7—5.
Columbia Golf Postponed
The Middle Atlantic PGA Pro.
amateur tournament scheduled Fri
day at Columbia Country Club ha*
been postponed indefinitely due to
the condition of the course following
the heavy rains. Pro Fred McLeod
said today.
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