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Water Polo. First riot of the Xth Olympiad occurred after the first match in the water polo tournament, when Germany had beaten Brazil, 7 to 3. Angered by the decisions of the referee, huge Bela Komjadi of Hungary, two of the Brazilians crawled out of the pool and attacked him. Their teammates helped them. The Germans helped Referee Komjadi. Dr. Leo Donath of Hungary, secretary of the International Swimming Federation, tried to stop the fight. Police arrived and whacked him as well as the battling contestants. Bruised and bitter, Dr. Donath left the arena. Said Referee Komjadi: "The Brazilians have no idea of how to play water polo. ... It stands to reason that if I were to be unfair I, as a Hungarian, would be prejudiced against the Germans, our big rivals. . . ." The Brazilians were disqualified and Hungary won three games, the last one 16 to 0 against Japan, for the Olympic water polo championship. Other events:
¶ Roop Singh, left inside of the Indian field hockey team, made half the goals that enabled his team to beat the U. S. 24 to 1 in the title game.
¶ After winning the middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling championship. Ivar Johansson, Swedish policeman, took a Turkish bath instead of attending his victory ceremonies. Then, 11 lb. lighter, he won the welterweight Graeco-Roman wrestling championship. Other Graeco-Roman champions were Finnish Vaino Kokkinen, who defended his 1928 middle-weight championship; Carl Westergren, Swedish bus-driver, who won the middleweight championship in 1920, the lightweight championship in 1924, the heavyweight championship last week. ¶ Gymnasts competed in the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Scores after five days' competition: Italy, 541.85; U. S., 522.275; Finland. 509.775.
¶ Jacques Le Brun, skipper of a French monotype sloop, protested to the judges that an Italian boat had failed to give him sea room at the start of the ninth race. The judges disallowed the protest, disqualified Skipper Le Brun. He took his claim to the Olympic Protest Committee which differed with the judges, awarded Skipper Le Brun a first place that gave France the monotype championship instead of Holland, 87 points to 85. Sweden won the six-metre boat championship. The other yachting championships went to two U. S. boats—Gilbert Gray's star sloop Jupiter, Owen Churchill's eight-metre boat Angelita.
¶ By hitting six different life-sized targets in the two-second finals, Major Renzo Morigi of the Fascist militia won the pistol shooting championship for Italy, with Heinrich Hax of Germany second.
¶ Most exacting equestrian event in last week's Olympics was the dressage, to test the intelligence, skill and poise of horses 6 riders in 23 movements to be executed in less than 16 min. in a 60 X 20-metre arena. Commandant Francois Lesage of France won first place with his black gelding Taine, as he had at the International Dressage of Geneva last year. A jury disqualified Captain Bertil Sandstrom of Sweden for clucking to his mount (riders must use neither tongue nor whip), awarded second place to Commandant Charles Marion of France.