Show iLA N O ST S FROM LT LEAD 6 IN WINTER 0 rE OLYMPIC COMPETITION N tL Yankee Athletes Are Now i S Third With Norway Second 4 Ii Finnish Star Wins Meter M ter Event in 8 Minutes s 39 Seconds T. T S NIX France prance Jan 26 For For only a few hours lic 4 American colors glistened against a background of Alpine Alpi e esnow snow from the top of the Olympic flagstaff here toda today L Less LC ss than one hour after the crack of the starters starters' starters guns guns had I the skating stars of eighteen nations around the ice track in jn the opening opening- events of ot the 1924 1024 I Olympic games the time American colors col cola ors ora had been pulled to he the top of ot otI I the pole signifying that the time United States had won the time first event of the eighth revival of ol the ancient I games S SCharles Charles Jewtraw of Lake Placid one of ot the best of ot the American r team tean brought h g victory 15 In the first rf where he skated BOO meters e in 4 41 i seconds His time was the best made The Ice races are all being contes contested ed against time won n JO 0 points n for th the American aa team naJ aJ and tg they were e need need- e ei a as none ne of his teammates were able to finish within the money Joe Moore of New York finished eighth Harry of ot Chicago twelfth and William Steinmetz z of I Chicago fourteenth l I COPS COlS METER HACE RACE With a slim lead of 4 H points the Americans went Into the afternoon event eVent the meter met r race the he sec eec second second ond end event on the program am The Thel l head IE-ad ad faded away and the colors of Finland not only displaced the flag on the time staff but the time rican Amp dropped to a poor third pla place in the point poin score for lor the da day and ard the tIme Finnish Fin oln nish stare won first and second places In the race Norway Norway Nor Nor- wa way role third fourth and fifth Vincent BlaHs the time young oung sub- sub on the tIme American team won only orly 1 j point by finishing finishing- sixth U V. S. S SKATERS ARE THIRD The TImeS point score at the end of ot the first day stood S Finland 20 Norway IH United Unit Unit- ed Ad States 11 Sweden 1 I. Jewtraw's victory In he me ter terrace race furnished the time prettiest and most exciting spectacle of ot the time da day Charles Charls Gorman the Canadian star atar opposed him and got away to a big led lead Jew Jewtraw's pressed him into a furious pace and aud overtook him about fifty yards ards from the finish This race told on both the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- American ican and nd the Canadian Jewtraw was obviously tired when he came out for the event but buthe he carried a grea great fight against Harold Harold Har liar old the Norwegian who won the heat In 3 CANADIAN FORCED FORCED TO 10 RESIGN Gorman who also was we weakened ken d by abandon ba his nm mornings morning's his rare race Se e exertion at erH the h halfway had f to st th the Frenchman iia Ha the star of the Finnish Finnish Fin Fin- nish team s stumbled at the start of the meter race and slid almost twenty yards ards before he got back on his stride He made time good goodenough enough to tI tie for tor third place Thurnberg got ot away to a perfect perfects s sar ar In the tiie meter event this afternoon and turned in the time winning time of S 3 39 Julius the second of the Finnish stars got away badly Inthe in inthe inthe the morning races races and finish finished d sec eec ond but the longer distance ce seemed seem seem- seemed ed more to his liking and he placed second in in time the race with witha a a. time mark of 8 8 While the th American manager William Taylor app appeared ared elated at atthe atthe 1 the form torm shown b by his skaters an and l wanted to do anything but alibi It was apparent th thee Americans were not nOA In ash he best f sOt Ot of shape It was obvious b s this I afternoon that the Americans had all been sp spent nt In the time morning races I The Time Americans failed badly in ip inthe the meter race as aa far tar as point s scoring was wall concerned but they conducted themselves nobl nobly |