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Show UTAH BOY US GREAT Mi (By C. W. Williams) Stockholm, July 9. Alma Richards of the Brlgham Young university of rovo, Utah, yesterday won first place In the running high Jump for the American team. He cleared the bar at a helghth of 193 centimeters. This Is six feet three and three-tenths Inches. Richards established a new Olympic record for this evont. The former record was six feot and three inches. Next to Johnny Hayes' Marathon vlctorj' In London in 1908, probably the moBt wonderful scene ever witnessed wit-nessed at any Olympic games was that enacted at the stadium this afternoon af-ternoon during tho final heat of tho 800-meter run, tho result of which brought for tho second time at this Olympiad throe Amorlcan flags fluttering flut-tering to their masts' ends on the stadium, denoting first, second and third places for the United States. And a total of 15 out of a possible 4 points at tho end of the day had brought our team to a place where it is regarded with the wildest enthusiasm enthus-iasm by the multitude every time any member enters the stadium and with awe by the remainder of tho world's best athletes, who arc here for the gigantic ovonts. Although the great 800-meter run was won by J. E. (Tad) Meredith of Mercersburg academy, a 19-ycar-old schoolboy, with Melvln Sheppard and Irn Davenport of Chicago In a dead heat for second place, and all three breaking world's records for the distance, dis-tance, Meredith went on and broke tho Italian, Lungbl's world'B record for a half mllo, there being n second tape strung to offlclaly time that distance. dis-tance. Without detracting from the winner's win-ner's feat in the least, great credit for the remarkable victory belongs to the veteran, Mel Sheppard. The Irish American star deliberately sot such a heart-breaking pace that it killed ; off Braun of Germany, whom many I had picked as the winner, and thereby there-by ruining his own chances against ! tho youngster, Meredith, in the final I sprint I In the first heats and semi-finals i of the paBt few dnys, Sheppard has , loafed along, merely contenting him-. him-. self with qualifying for the final, and I many admirers looked anxiously at I the Now York veteran In yesterday's linoup and wondered if tho old speed ! was thero. When . he flashed out ahead when tho race was under way, , a great cry burst from hundreds of American throats: Boy Beats Sheppard I "Look at that! Look at that! He's the Bame old Mel!' I When Meredith, the fresh youug " ' ' ''"f U.JU'J wEWWyWpPPWH'ti' J '1 1 1 i i W.iiin i i MWWmi1'1"11-'"1'?1" schoolboy, passed Sheppard, just as thoy were on the tape, Johnny Hayes, who was sitting next to mo In "the press box, burst into tears, crying: "I ought not to feel so bad, bo-cause bo-cause we have won anyway, but to have Mel beaten shows tho passing of tho old guard.' But when the figures on the board showed the glorious fact that three Americans had broken the world's record, which, by tho way, was held by Sheppard, Hayes' follngs underwent under-went a chango. "I don't feel a bit sorry now, if he can still do that," said the famous Marathonor. Tho figures put up on the board wero: Meredith, 1 minute 51.9 seconds; sec-onds; Sheppard, 1 minute 52 seconds; Davenport, 1 minute 52 seconds. Meredith's time for tho half milo was 1 minute 52 1-2 seconds. Tho old Lunghl record was 1 minuto 52 4-5 seconds, Americans Cheer During the running of this event the rooters' stand was under the direction di-rection of that veteran, Colonel Robert Rob-ert M Thompson, persldent of tho American committee, who himself camo In for a round of cheers and as the flags rose gaily to tho mastheads mast-heads tho bands again played "The Stars and Stripes Forever." while the entire stadium fairly rocked with deafening yells for the American victors. vic-tors. Next to this sensational performance perform-ance tho greatest event of the day was Richards winning tho running high jump, defeating the very dangerous dan-gerous Llscho of Germany at 193 centimeters, breaking the Olympic record, with Horlne, the sensational Leland Stanford star, third. Richards who Is from the Brlgham Young university uni-versity at Provo, Utah won tho admiration admira-tion of the crowd by his beautiful jumping style, and he also furnisheu considerable amusement by Insisting upon jumping In a ragged old felt hat which he considers a mascoL Several members of the committee laughingly asked him to remove It, but he firmly firm-ly declined. rommlssionpr Sullivan said to me after this evont "And to think that ih's man camo over hero on the supplementary first, Mid only then becaiifn 1 insisted on IL After that he was one of '.he greatest jumpers In the world " Aside from the tithleMo evente iu tho stadium Amorioa lei'ds, Including nil the outsldo events of the Olympiad, Olym-piad, having 59 against Sweden's ol. England took a slide downward today, nhen her team of London policemen were bea'ei in the tug of war by the Swedes in the first heat and disqualified dis-qualified in the second for sitting down. |