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Show YANKEES SECURE ONE SM HEME England, Sweden ana France Cany Off Cream of Day. EISELE, AN AMERICAN, PROVES RIG SURPRISE Wins Second Place in Three- Mile Team Race With Apparent Ap-parent Ease. LONDON, July 15. Tho gold modals went to Great Britain, Franco and Sweden Swe-den a3 tho wlnnors of tho finals of today's to-day's events at the Olympic games. Great Britain was a doublo winner, and Franco and Sweden each secured one first. The United States had to bo satisfied with one silver medal, symbolic of second placo in the threc-mllo team racj), Hit the Amorlcan representation in tho various events was small. There were four finals assigned to tho day, and of these England won the GC0-yard GC0-yard cycling race and tho throe-mllc toam race, thus bringing the' number of gold medals accredited to Great Britain to date up to four, as compared with two standing to the credit , of the United States. The only final In which tho latter country participated was the thxeo-milc-tcam race and the American team finished fin-ished an easy second. France captured her gold medal for a victory in the 2000-mctor tandem cycle race, and Sweden for Lemming's record-breaking record-breaking Javelin throw of 178 foot 75 Inches, which topped the best previous throw by more than three feet, Greece, France and Great Britain each took a silver modal for second In the Javelin throwing. CCO-yard cycling race and the 2000-meter event, respectively, while Norway, Germany and Sweden took the bronze medals In the same events. Lemming Has Cinch. In the javelin throwing contest there were seventy entries, but, following the example of half a dozen Americans who had put down their names for this event, the majority withdrew when they realized real-ized that they had no chanco of beating Lemming nnd other cracks at this form of sport. While the throwing was going on, the bicycle truck was taken by the competitors In the 100 kilometer cycle race, which brought, out a big Held. Cameron, Cam-eron, the American representative, was entered, but ho decided not to start, reserving re-serving himself for the shorter races. This contest resolved Itself into a pro-cesion pro-cesion which lasted all morning. Hansen of Sweden was tlrst In this, heat and Lutz of France second, six others qualifying quali-fying for thu final, which will be run off on Saturday. Tho closest finish of the day was. in the first heat of tho seml-llnals of tho 100-inctcr 100-inctcr swimming event. O. Scheff of Austria winning by tho smallest fraction from 11. Taylor of England. The second heal of the seml-llnals also was a splendid splen-did contest, Beaurepulre of Australia having hav-ing all he could do to keep ahead of Fos-(oiaof Fos-(oiaof England. These four, iicheff. Taylor. Tay-lor. Beaurepulre and Foster, qualified for the final, whleh will be one of the bl events of tomorrow. From Scheff's tlmo In today's heat, 5 minutes and 40 T.-5 seconds, sec-onds, which was three and two-fifths seconds faster than that made Jn tho second sec-ond heat, It looks as though Austria may capture a gold medal. Attracts Attention. Another event In I ho tank which attracted at-tracted much attention was the fancy diving, tho third and fourth heats of which were decided. Behreus of Germany won tho third heat with S2.5 points. Er-rlngton Er-rlngton of England and Metzoll of Inland In-land tied for second, with 70.S.1 poinLM. Potts of England captured the fourth heat, his score being S2.5. while Nlcolal of Germany was second with (55.1. Tho tank was occupied for another hour by the contestants In tho 200-meter breast stroke swim, seven heats being decided. The following men qualified for the final, who will swim on Saturday: Ilolman, of England: Persson, of Sweden; Seldel. of Germany; Toldy. of Hungary: Robin-eon, Robin-eon, of England; Fablnyl, of Hungary, aifrl CourbeL, of Belgium. A. M. Gocssllng, of the Missouri Athletic Ath-letic club, the only American entered, took third place In tho second heat, and therefore did not qualify The fivc-mlle run, which is also down for Saturday, should provo a great raco. The eliminating trials have left the following fol-lowing to fight It out for tho championship: champion-ship: Svanberg and Landqulst. of Sweden; Ilefferen. of South Africa: Volght, Murphy, Mur-phy, Robertson and Owon, of England; Boilers and Carr, of the United States, and Meadows. Fitzgerald and Galbralth. of Cunadiu It was learned tonight that Elselc, who made such a plucky fight for America In the team race, lost the nail off one of his i toes yesterday, and was suffering greatly . when he went to tho scratch today, but . he never flinched, and not until he reached his dressing room after the contest con-test did he complain of the pain. |