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Show AMERICAN WINSHONOR Breaks Olympic Record in 100 Meter Dash; Time 10 3-5. . Stockholm, July 6. American athletes ath-letes got off well In the lead in the opening track events of tho Olympic games hero today. Thirty thousand spectators, among them the Swedish royal family, cheered their respective favorites to victory while United States entries annexed a large Bharc of the firsts In the initial heat6 of the 100 and SOO-meter events. Eight Americans, four Englishmen and two Canadians won places In tho finals of the 80D-meter race. Donald F. LIpplncot, of the University Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, lowered the Olympic record by 1-5 of a second when he won tho sixteenth heat, 100 meters, in 10 3-5. Other Americans who won first in tho heats were: Ira Courtney of the Seattle A. C; Ralph C. Craig, of the Detroit Y. M. C. A.: Howard Drew, Springfield, Mass., high school; P C. Gerhardt, Olympic club, San Francisco. Clarence Clar-ence S. Edmundson, Seattle A. A., was among the first In the 800-meter events. An early "upset" in the meet came In the seventh heat, 800 meters, when J. C Soutter, England, won from Melvin W. Sheppard, the Irish-American star who crossed the tape in second place, six yards behind the Englishman. Sheppard appeared winded at the end of the first 200. Another surprise of the day's games was the winning of the javelin throw by E Lemming, Sweden, who hurled tho spear GO meters, 64 centimeters, breaking tho, Olympic record by nearly near-ly ten feet. Stockholm, July 6. 100-meters The first athletic victory for the United States was won by Ira Courtney, Court-ney, of the Seattle Athletic club in ttie third fteat o? tli6 100-meters flat. His time was eleven seconds. E. H. Blakeney of England was second and a Hungnrian third. In the fourth heat of tho 100-rrie-ters flat, A. E. D. Anderson of England Eng-land was first and Rupert P. Thomas of Princeton university second. The time was eleven seconds In the fifth heat of the 100-meters Howard P. Drew of Springfield, Mass., high school, won by several yards; E. Kern of Germany was second. Time eleven seconds. In the ninth heat of the 100-meters flat, Alvah T Meyers. Irish-American Athletic club, won b ythree yards Time 11 3-10 seconds. , . Olympic Record Tiedr-r-"' In the tenth heat D. H. Jacobs of England won by a narrow margin, beating C. P. Wilson, Coe college, Iowa Time It) 4-5 seconds. In the eleventh heat F V. Belote, Chicago A. A., won. Time 11 seconds. sec-onds. In the twelfth heat, P. C. Gerhardt. Olympic club San Francisco, won, beating Frank Lukeman of Quebec, Canada. Time 11 1-10. In tho thirteenth heav of the 100-meters 100-meters flat, J. A. Howard. Manitoba, won; G H. Patching, South Africa, was second and Harold W. Heiland, Xavier A A., New York, thirl. Time 11 seconds. To beat Wilson, of Coe college in the tenth heat, Jacobs of England was forced to tie the Olympic record of 10 4-5 seconds. One. hundred meters C Luthers, Stockholm, won the first heat; Mol-ler, Mol-ler, Sweden, second, tho third heat; R. Rau, Germany. tbe sixth; W. A. Stewart, Australia, the seventh and K. LIndberg, Sweden, the eighth heat, In the 100-meters flat. Breaks Olymplc Record. LIpplncott, of the University of Pennsylvania, broke the Olympic record for the 100-meten, winning the sixteenth heat In 10 3-5 seconds. The best previous Olympic mark was 10 4-5, made by Waikor of South Africa at London in 1908, and by JarviB, of the United Stages at Paris in 1900. ,, Sixteenth heat, 100-meters Donald F. LIpplncott, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, first. W. R. Applegrnth. England, Eng-land, second; Yahiko Mlsnira-J. Japan, tho first competitor from that coun try was the last of the five in the heaL Time 10 3-5 seconds. Seventeenth heat Ralph C. Ciaig, Detroit Y. M. C. A., first. Tine 11 J-f seconds. 800 Meter Race. First heat, 800 meters David S. Caldwell, Massachusetts Agricultural college, beat the famous Italian, B. Lunghi, by five yards. J. Caullo, of France, made the pace for 550 meters, but ho later dropped back. Walter McClure, Olympic club, San Francisco, was outdistanced. Time One minute 58 3-5 seconds. . Second heat. 800 meters flat P. E. Mann, England, first, Herbert N. Putnam, Put-nam, Cornell, university, second. Time One minute 56 seconds. Third heat, 800 meters, flat John Paul Jones, Cornell university, first. A Z. Cortesao, Portugal, made the pace for three-quarters of the distance. dis-tance. Jones then forged ahead, finishing fin-ishing easily six yards In frant Time 2:01 4-5. Fifth heat Ira Is. Davenport, University Uni-versity of Chicago, first, F, H. Hul-ford, Hul-ford, England, second The three English competitors did good team work. R- HnleB made tho running for 400 meters and then withdrew. Time 1:59. Fourth heat, S00 motors, flat Clarence Clar-ence S. Edmundsun, Seattle, A. A., first J.' L. Talt, Ontario, Canada, second sec-ond C.A. C. Poulenard, Franco, third. The' (five competitors were closoly (Continued on Page Eight) AMERICANS (Continued From Page One.) bunched. R. Burton of England "was fourth. Time 1'5G 5t10 secondB. Sixth heat, SOO meters, flat Harlan W. Holden, Bates college, first; E Bjorn, Sweden, second; the Swede made a good race in the last half, but Holden finished easily In front of the others, including a Turk who made one burst to the front with the Star and Crescent on his red jersey, but was outdistanced. Time 1:58 1-10. Tho firsts and seconds In the trial heats of the 800 meters flat compete In the finals. Thus America Is represented rep-resented by eight men and England by four, whllo Canada has two. Sheppard Beaten. Seventh heat, 800 meters, flat J. C. Soutter. England, first, Melvln W. Sheppard. Irish-American, second. The result was a surprise. The Englishman Eng-lishman sprinted 200 yards from tho finish and crossed the tape six yards ahead of Sheppard, who appeared to be winded In the first 200 yardB. Eigth heat, 800 meters, flatG. M. Brock, Ontario, first; James E. Meredith, Mere-dith, Mercerburg academy, second; J. F. Victor. South Africa, third. It was a beautifully close race between four Anglo-Saxon competitors. The Canadian Can-adian burst to tho front a few feet before the tape. Time One minute 57 seconds. Ninth event, SOO meters, flat E, J. Henley, England, first; Hans Braun, Germany, second; Thomas J. Halpln, Boston A. C, and a Swede, tld for third place. Timo One minute 57 3-5 seconds. Javelin Throwing. In the javelin throwing, E. Lemming, Lem-ming, Sweden, was first with 60 meters me-ters ,pnd 64 centimeters; J. J, Saarls-to, Saarls-to, Finland, second, 58 meters, 66 centimeters; cen-timeters; MIklos Kovacs, Hungary, third, 55 meters, 50 centimeters. Semi-Flnal 100-Meter. First heat, semi-final, 100 meters Howard P. Drew, Springfield, Mass., high school, first; E. Kern, Germany, second; Jra Courtney. Seattle, and P. C. Gerhaddt, San Francisco, wore distanced. Time, 11 seconds. Second heat G. H. Patchln, South Africa, first; K. Lindborg, Sweden, Becond There were no Americans in this heat. Time. 10 9-10 seconds. Third heat Ah-ah T. Meyers, Irish-American A. C, first; D. H. Jacobs, Ja-cobs, England, second. Time, 10 7-10 seconds. Semi-finals, 100 meters, fourth beat Ralph Craig, Detroit, first: R- Rau, Germany, second. Time, 10 7-10 seconds. sec-onds. Semi-finals, 100 meters, fifth heat D. F. Lipplncott, University of Pennsylvania, first: W. R- Apple-garth. Apple-garth. England, second. Timo, 7-10. Sixth heat F. V. Belote. ChicagP, first; W. A. Stewart, Australia, second. sec-ond. Time, 11 1-10. Breaks Swimming Record. Duke Kahanamoku. Hawaii, established estab-lished 3 world's record of one minute, min-ute, 2 2-5 seconds in. his trial heat in the JOO-melers' swim. |