Shanghai, June 4.
UNNING a beautiful race to beat none other than Lieut. Glenn Funk, the one-man team of the Fourth U.S. Marines, in the last 440 yards of the Mile Relay, Tony Fonseca assisted the Foreign Y.M.C.A., defending champions of the Shanghai Open Track and Field Meeting, to establish a useful lead upon completion of the first day's competition on the Shanghai American School grounds yesterday aft noon.
The leaders gathered 25 points against the "Leatherneck's" eighteen, The Lido Recreation Association ran. third with ten, The fourth place ended with a tie of eight tallies each between the Russian Regiment and Hwa Lien.
Bhe Shanghai Schools missed the services of Francis Edwards, the star sprinter who was on the sick list, and gained but four points. The French Army netted three and Betar one.
Funk was undoubtedly the nding man in the contests, He Started off by. setting a new mile record in the time of four minutes 3650 seconds, beating Inst year's marie of 4481 set by Jack Service, The Marine emeer withstood the challenge of "Rabbit Face" 'T, L. Wong, the threat two-miler of the Lido team, in fconvineing. style. Funk was. oven: taken by Wong in the backstretch of the frst lap but was content to follow the Chinese until the third lap when put on the pressure, The winner broke the tape with about "ftteen yards to spare. Y. W. Kuan, Wang's teammate, was another fi(teen yards behind with Beck of Betar running fourth, Lieut, Funk's next performance was in the 440-Yard Low Hurdles which" he won in 99 seconds. Hlat, which was another local record in view of ¥. J. Tao's display over the 400 metres distance eight years ago in sixty seconds. flat, the 440 Yards being a few fect longer than ihe 400 metres.
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