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Show UNITED STATES WINS IN OLYMPIC PISTOL SHOOTING Stockholm, July 3. In the pistol shooting competition for teams yesterday, yes-terday, firing at a distance of fifty metres, tho United States won The United States team was awarded the gold medal, its aggregate score being 1,916. Sweden was second with 1,-849 1,-849 and Great Britain third with 1.S04. This Is another victor' for America Ameri-ca In the Olympic games. The training of the United States team in the Olympic games was interfered in-terfered with somewhat yesterday b a drizzling rain which softened the ground. The Americans had their first opportunity of practicing on the Stadium tracks, and in the morning nearly al the track men turned out in the presence of a large number of spectators. In the afternoon the runners, weight throwers and hammer ham-mer throwers exercised on other athletic grounds. The crown prince of Sweden and Colonel Black, president of the Swedish Swed-ish Olympic committee received James E. Sullivan, commissioner at the games and complimented him on the appearance of the American team. The individual competition in the clay bird shooting was begun yesterday. yester-day. This consists of three stages, the first stage of which was concluded. con-cluded. The conditions called for twenty targets per man In two rounds J. R. Graham, Chicago A A , A. F. Gleason, Boston A A., and Goel-den Goel-den and Siedlitz of Germany each had 19 'breaks," Thirty-six others are eligible for the second round today, to-day, having scored 15 "breaks" on over. The second round Is at thirty targets tar-gets per man. The individual shoot with any rifle at 300 meters, 120 shots (forty standing, stand-ing, forty kneeling and forty prone) was won by Colas of France with a score of 984. Madsen, Denmaifr was second, with 983; Johansen, Sweden, third with commissioner to the Olympic Olym-pic games, was Introduced yesterday to Crown Prince Gustav Adolph to whom he handed his warrant from President Presi-dent TafU |