OCR Text |
Show ATHLETIC MEET AT ST. LOUIS! Flower o! the World iol the Olympiad. I Contests Compare Favorably With Thest That Pri- H Foature Yesterday From a Spectator'aB Standpoint Was the Interna- jH tional Team Match. ' ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 3. Rested bH yesterday's open dato In tho week's Pro-5H gramme of events comprising tho rcvlvaNpH of Olympian games, tho flower of Amerl4H can and foreign nthlotes today ontored5lB the list determined to make tho lfjfiH Olympiad compare favorably with Itjjl predecessors. Thc largest crowd that hasfglH yet attended an athletic attraction filledSH tho grand stand. rvl When thc sprinters In tho 100-meter run"H the first event on today's card, facod theftpM starters thcro wore four American ath-jpB lctlc clubs with almost equal chances ofj jH capturing thc Olympic championships -jjH Tho New York Athletic club led with ajjH total of 4S points. Tho Mllwaukco Ath-fH letlc club and thc Chicago Athletic assocla- tlon wero tied for secondv place with 3lppH pplnts each, and the Greater New YorkrjBPPJ Irish Athletic association was a goodijH third with 24 points. tH The feature, from a spectators' stand-,ppj point, was the International team racoi ijPH Each country had live mon entered. TheVjppj dlstanco was four miles, UiH The other Olympic championship evcntslH decided were: Throwing tho discus, 1500-fdpJ i meter run. 110-moter hurdle, polo vault. lH thrco standing Jumps and tho dumb-bellMB compotltlon. 'ijijH The handicap events woro tho 00-yard run, 440-yard run, throwing tho slxteen-4iB pound hammer and a national team rac&ijppj of one mile, teams of four men, who rarrtflpH 410 yards c rb. Summarfcs: fil 410-yard run, handicap event Frank O-fftlijfl Dclrecy, Flnlay City. Mich. (12 yards) MIM first; George Underwood, New York A.L?IH C, New York (scratch), second. TlmeJiJIH 50 4-5 seconds. FMll 1500-meter run (1G40.41 yards) James DjjIH Llghtbody, C A. A.. Chicago, first; W. F.lH Verncr, C. A. A., Chicago, second. Tlmc.jpl Ralph W. Rose of the Chicago AthletlclVH association broke the Olympic discus rec-rjM ord by more than ten feet and thc exlst-jB lng world's record by a few inches. Onvjil his first throw In tho discus evont, hlsNl throw of 128 feet 5 Inches, however, did not equal the throw made Thursday by VH M. J. Sheridan. Sheridan broke thelH world's record by 4 feet 2 Inches. 100-meter run Archie llahn, M. A. C, Milwaukee, llrst: N. J. Cartmell, Y. M. C. WM A., Louisville, Ky., second. Tlmo, 11 sec- gH onds. liuH One-mllo relay, handicap event MIssourll'IfM A.. C. St. Louis (scratch), first; S. W. T.I'HH V., St. Louis (SO yards), second. Tlme,taH 3:52 1-5. E sfiH 110-meter hurdle Fred W. Schulc, M. A.ljSiH C, Milwaukee, first; T. Schldeler. C, A. hflpl A. Chicago, second. Time, 16 seconds rffl Sixteen-pound handicap event John Flanagar, from the New York A. C, owJIijB York, scratch, first, 153 feet, 4 Inches; A. (tlijH A. Johnson, Y. M. C. A., St. Louis. 30-9H feet, socond. 151 feet. 7 Inches. rllijV Charles E. Dvorak of Chicago A. A. ( broke tho Olympic record on thc pole I vault. Ho cleared tho bar at 11 feet, 6fH Inches, bentlng the record of 10 feet. Inches, mado by Baxter of tho University w'-fiPJ of Pennsylvania at Paris. l$flfl Three standing Jumps Ray Evry, XcwfQlH York A. C, Now York, first. 31 feet. "ihipMM Inches: Con M King, McKlnney, Tox-.hiJB second, 33 feet, 4 Inches. Ifijill Dumb-bell competition Oscar Oat off, M. A, C, Milwaukee, 43 points; Fred Wln-l$IPJ ters. N. W. S. A. C, New York, second, l.jlpPJ 45 points. flil Tho Now York Athletic club won thoul Olympic championship with a total of fgiPH sixty points (unofficial): Chicago was scc-gsjV ond. with 59 points; Milwaukee A. C . jiljljl third, 46 points: Greater Now York Irish Iflijl Athletic association, fourth, 31 points. (jfH Four-mile International team race, "voilgjlH men each team, two teams entered New fuDIH York Athletic club first. Chicago Athlotlo KjijV association second. Time. 21.17 1-5. hwijl Sixty-yard dnsh, handicap event C. riiH Hastcdt, M. A. C, St. Louis (four feet), f&JijM first; E. F. Annls, G. N. Y. I. A. A., Ncw5rB York (4 feet), second. Time. 6 1-6 seconds. MjH Throwing the discus M. J. Sheridan, G.ItH N. Y. I. A. A., New York, first. 12S feetLH 10 Inches; Ralph W. Rose. C. A. A..H Chicago, second, 128 feet 10 Inches. &2H Throw-off. first and socond places: Sherl-ntiH dan, 127 feet 10Vi Inches; Rose, 120 feetbjppj 6 Indies. ilfH Success ox baniorci btame. UBH Among other things, Including1 unl-fjwiH formly good racing, unexpected Per-fSB formances by possibly underrated horses FflH and tho failure to run up to their form hftH of other mipposcd turf kings, notably tttHH McChcsney, the performances at Sar- nHH atoga of the stable belonging to Stephen iH and John Sanford have beca remarka- MH ble. On August 16 the fillies Adrlantha. fSH and Molly Brant, daughters of Clifford, won the first and fourth racer, respect-lvcly. respect-lvcly. This marked the third time nt eSH thc Saratoga meeting that two horses oH belonging to the Sanfords had won PjH events on the same race programme, a MppH record for the season, as no other stable fSdH has been fortunate enough to win 6lZ tH purses in three days at one track. Thc guH victories of the Sanford horses, more- KSH over, have been good, clever perform- Bi ances. Molly Brant,' In the Merchants H and Clti'.eni stake, the main event of QBH August 16, winning by a neck over pHPH Broomstick. The time for thc mile and jH furlong was 1:51, being thc fastest fflBH during the Saratoga meeting up to that flH time and within 1-5 of a second of tho UH track record. She had. picked' up 117 poundt! and equaled Hermls's record for the race, hung up in 1902 by old Advance Guard. It was a long, hard drive and well Judged by Odom. who let Broom-stick Broom-stick do the pace making and reserved .Molly Brant for thc race through the stretch. Adriantha's opening event on flH the same day was won by her stamina 9 ay much as by her flectness of foot, it being Avon by her courage In thc last JPH part of tho race after the leaders, with PpH whom she had previously been unable jpH I to keep up .had tired, Lyne sending tho IH filly through a small opening to the wire H and victory. DpH |