| Show AMERICANS vmoRsl I Won Eight of Thirteen Events Over Englishmen r I rf f ALMOST A CLEAN SWEEPif < I 1 I Amateurs from tho United States Oppose Op-pose tho Best Amateurs Net Only from England Ireland and Scotland Scot-land but the Colonies as Well New York Athletic Club Got tho I Lions Share Princeton University Secured Second Place iT the High 1 Jump 4 London July 7 The American athletes t ath-letes I won eight out of thirteen amateur events for the championship of Great Britain Tho Amateur Athletic association asso-ciation championship games were held at Stamf6rd Bridge and as the Americans of the cans competed In only twelve ovents they won all but four oC the contests tle which they took part Such I a clean sweep Is 1 without parallel More especially Is it noticeable when It is re t espeCialY membered that they opposed the best I I England Ire amateurs not only from I land and Scotland but the colonies as well well New York Athletic club got tho lions share taking the weightputting hammer t h row r n polevaulting and fourmile run Pennsylvania was second sec-ond winning the high Jump the hurdles hur-dles and the long jump Georgetown I university won tho 100yard dash Princeton university secured second place In tho 300yard dash and the high Jump while Chicago university secured L I tho same place in the quartermile run and Pennsylvania added to the laurels I by getting second place in the pole t vault Syracuse university failed to m I put In an appearance both her men I not arriving In time to enable them to I participate In the events I a few American competitors had I not been prevented either from running i run-ning entirely or been so out of form I owing to tho climate probably every event would have been won by them 1 but with Crcgan of Princeton In 1 1 health scarcely knowing whether he was goIng to run until the bell rang and with Terry of Princeton entirely knocked out with n water knee and 1 Orton and Alexander Grant unable to come within twenty seconds of the normal I nor-mal lime it was impossible for the Americans to make a clean sweep Kracnzlin secured 3 nev record for hurdles over grass and received more applauvo than the other competitors regardless re-gardless of nationality As Lord Alverstone said when they k were distributing the prizes = Kraenz lin wo have not got enough medals to give you Wo only hope you Americans I will como over next year and defend J I your cup Then we hope to have better runners to put up against you Lord Alverstone said that Kraenzlins hurdle race was tho best race he had 1 ever seen In his life and this voiced the sentiments of the crowd though It I was more of an exhibition than a race as the Pennsylvania man was never threatened l from start to finish He himself said I think we did l well enough today better than we thought we could I am much handicapped band y b-and awkward takeoff and In tho jumpIng jump-Ing contest did not como anywhere near my standard Arrangements for the spectators Cnc the teams were absurdly inadequate There was a lack o good management In the whole performance Several L American competitors bellvcd they were treated with nono too much fair ness This thoy atlributed not so much to their English competitors as llo the character of the officials In charge of the American Amateur Athletic association I asso-ciation who were by no means representative repre-sentative men Two distinct fouls were made against the Americans which the Judges disallowed William Penninglon of Pennsylvania who fell at the last hurdle said to a correspondent of the Associated Press lr dont think we were treated any too well However we won a majority of the events so it does not seem to matter That seemed lo voice lh I > spirit of the visiting loams Three thousand people witnessed the American victories Tin e spectators e wore singularly undemonstrative except ex-cept In the finals In the quarter and halfmile runs It was only In these events that International rivalry became be-came keen Tn the other events it was apparent long before tho finish that either England or America had the victory woll In hand But the halfmile run was in doubt until the tape was I reached Capt Crcgan of Princeton university made a frantic effort to land first and win for the Tigers but Tysoe tho English champion nmld terrific ter-rific cheers overhauled him and with a splendid burst of speed breasted the tapo ahead of Princetons halfsick but plucky champion The quartermile race was equally oxclllng r W Long of the New York Athletic club was ahead 01 the way but down the stretch William Aartlrur Moloney of the Chicago university followed fol-lowed him like the wind while only a fow feet behind Welsh of Scotland Until the announcement was made tho spectators waited breathless HO close was thc finish Tho pole vaulting was immensely appreciated ap-preciated by the spectators who choered lustily the clever performances of the Americans the English competitors tars having dropped out at tho first round Tho victory Richard Sheldon of the t New York Athletic club over Dennis Horgan of Ireland in putting tho weight cdme as u great surprise to the Englishmen as the holder of the championship cham-pionship was supposed to be Invincible After the medals had been given amid hearty cheers Ihe American tennis left the ground The Princeton university men will go straight to Paris and tho other Americans will follow within a few days |
