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Show South Africa Wins Classic Clas-sic Run Portuguese Runner Dies. Stockholm. July 15 Gloom was cast over the spectators and participants partici-pants in s the Olympic games today when it became known that the only Portuguese runner in yesterday's historic his-toric Maiathon race, M. Lazaro, died in the hospital this morning He suffered suf-fered from sunstroke in yesterday's race and fell out at Silferdal on the return journey after running 19 miles Only a few scattered hundreds of spectators occupied the benches of the stadium this morning, the last day of the athletic section of the games The pole vaulting event in tho decathlon decath-lon was the only attraction and that proceeded very slowly Most of the people preferred to visit the neighboring athletic grounds where the American and Swedish athletes ath-letes gave an exhibition of baseball for the benefit of those foreigners who had never seen a game An enormous crowd, however, gathered gath-ered this afternoon when the prizes were presented to the winners. Swimming and military riding competitions com-petitions were in progress throughout the day. South Africa. whl"h heretofore played a modest part in this Olympic drama, came to the center of the stage at the moment of Its culmination culmina-tion yesterday, winning the Marathon race," the most important number on tho 'Olympic program. This might have been honor enough for a small nation, but South Africa also won second place by a securo lead. The winner of the classical Marathon was K. K McArthur, a tall Transvaal policeman, po-liceman, who has never yet been headed in a similar cvenL His compatriot, com-patriot, C. W Gltshaw. came second into the stadium several " hundred vards behind, and third to appear was "the American. Gaston Stroblno. of the South Patcrson Athletic club. wKo put up a braver fight than most of the runners, for his feet were skinned and bleeding and he was suffering great pain. He never lost his nerve though and made a brave attempt at feeling happy while ho traversed the stadium track a furlong behind the second man at the end of the performance. The times as announced were" McArthur, 2 hours 36 minutes; Git-shaw, Git-shaw, 2 hours 37 minutes 52 seconds; Stroblno, 2 hours 3S minutes 42 2-5 seconds. The Americans gave a death blow to the theory that the athletes of the United States are better at contests which require quickness and agility than in tests of endurance. While 30.000 spectators In the stadium strained their eyes toward tho archway arch-way from under whioh the winners emerged they sa wthe American shield on the breasts of six of the first ten men who entered. The names of thi3 , roir of honor are "Stroblno, Andrew Sockalexls. Olcltown; John J. Gallagher, Galla-gher, Yale, Joseph Erxleben, Missouri Mis-souri Athletic club; Richard F. Pig-gott, Pig-gott, North Dorchester A. A., and Joseph Jo-seph Forshaw, Missouri A. C The American team numbered twelve and ten finished. The last of these was Thomas H LI Hey. North Dorchester A. C . who finished eighteenth. Two Americans fell by the wayside Michael Mi-chael F Ryan of the Irish-American Athletic club, who made a good run for nineteen miles and then succumbed succumb-ed to the heat, and John J Reynolds of the same club, who fell out earlier. Sweden furnished another dozen to the race, and if they had been equal to their ambition they would have had a different tale to tell They started at a great pace, but during the first few miles put forth all their powers and had nothing left when the final test came. Canada had no reason to be ashamed, for two of her representatives representa-tives J. Duffy and W. H. Forsythe finished fifth and sixteenth respectively respec-tively Canada's great hope. Corkery, ran with Ryan for several miles and they gave it up together. Manager Is Disappointed. The American contestants can hard-lv hard-lv came up to the expectation of Hayes, who had them under, his care. They attributed this largely to the heat. Most om the American Marathons Mara-thons have been run in winter or , spring and many of the men today were compelled to slow up at times to tako refreshments. The South African. Afri-can. Gitshaw, stopped two miles and a half from the end to drink water and It was hero that McArthur forged Into the lead. During the running of the Marathon other events wore being held in the stadium. William J. Mc-Grath. Mc-Grath. New York Citv, unattached, won the final heat in the hammer throw with 54 meters 74 centimenters (179 feet 7 1-10 Inches which beat tho former Olympic record made by tho American, John Flanagan at the London Olympic by more than nine feet, but was about the same distance short of the world's record held by McGrath. The Canadian. D. Glllis, was second with a throw of 15S feet 9 1-10 inches, while the American, C. C. Chllds. was third with 158 fecL The American. Simon P. Gillis, Now York A. C. collided with the hammer and was put out of the gamo. Ho was borno away on a stretcher. The score in all Olympic events as announced tonight is: United States, 120. Sweden, 79. England, 58. , Finland. 2S. France, 21. , South Africa, 16. J- - Denmark, 13. Italy. 13. Canada, 11. . . Norwa ,yl0. ? Australia, 9. '. Hungary, s. , '"' Belgium, 7. ' "j Greece. 1. .,.'. Russia, 3. Austria. 3. " ' Holland. 2. (Continued on Page Seven.) BIGJEVENT (Continued From Page One.) The tragedy of this year's Marathon, Mara-thon, coming after that of the painful exhibition of Dorando's finish in 190S, Is likely to lead' to a change of the rules or the abandonment of the feature fea-ture at future meetings. The United States won tho 1C00 metres race today with plenty to spare, having such men as Melvln W. Sheppard, I. A A. C; Edward F. Lind-berg, Lind-berg, C. A. A.; James E. Meredith, Mercersburg academy, and Charles E Reidpath, Syracuso university, to meet tho English and French teams. Each of the men had to cover 400 metres successively and the result was a foregone conclusion. The time of 0 minutes and 1G 3-5 seconds was well within the American runners' powers. |