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Show uu II IHKUvHiiu American Team Wins Easily In Weight Putting Put-ting at Games Stockholm. July 10 The program for the fifth day of the athletic session ses-sion of the Olympic games was full of interesting events. It included tho trial heats in tho 200-meters flat race, the final of the 5,000-meters flat race, semi-finals of the 1,500 meters flat race, the pole vault and the weight putting. In all these competitions the American Amer-ican athletes were ongaged and tho prospects of the United States team adding to Its list of victories wero favorable at the opening of tho sports this morning. Tho stadium began to fill at a very early hour, among the spectators being many American and British visitors who had come to watch thc running of the trial heats in th0 200-meters 200-meters flat raco. In this event many of tho finest sprinters in the world, both American and British, took part and when tho representatives of tho respective countries won their trial heats their admirers clapped, cheered, cheer-ed, cheered or shouted college yolls. Tho weight putting was completed early and as a result tho American team added to Its total of points another an-other six. as P. J. McDonald, Ralph Roso and L,. A. Whitney shared first, second and third place between them. The victory of the American team was such a foregone conclusion that tho performacne had no interest except ex-cept that which amounted to expectation expec-tation of the record being broken. A great cheer went up when the American flags waved from the flagstaff flag-staff at the ond of tho stadium. There Is considerable dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion hero over the timing of the root race, which ls done br an electrical apparatus. Several veteran English sportsmen who timed Drew In a trial heat of the lOO-meters are certaiu ho made a world's record by a fifth of a second. Gave Fine Exhibition. There was ono real raco In the 200-meter trials between G. H. Patching, Patch-ing, South Africa, and Clement p. Wilson, Coe college. In another heat Donald F. Llpplncott, University of Pennsylvania, had to run his best to wlu. P. C. Gcrhadt. Olympic A. c, San Francisco; W. S A. D'Arcy, and E. Kern of Germany, gave a fine exhibition .in th'e tenth heat. In the 1,500 meters' race, the judges were unable to decide who was second. Jackson of England won, but Abel R. Kivlat,, c-Irlsb-Amerlcan A. C, and'Ndrman S.v Ta"ber. Brown university, came in practically together to-gether and the judges are awaiting' the development of a photograph taken tak-en of the linish of the raco before giving their decision as to wheh wasl second and which third. Tho Englishman Eng-lishman Jackson fainted after the race and was carried from the track. It was a magnificent race. The American delegation considered consid-ered It had proprietary rights in the weight putting. The result, although all the points went to the representatives representa-tives of the United States furnished somewhat of a surprise. Ralph Rose Improved on his Olympic Olym-pic record in his first throw but was outdone by P J. McDonald In his third throw There were four Americans Am-ericans in the field of 21 competitors and not one of the 17 came within sight of them except tho brawny Finn, Enlcklander, who put 13 metres . centimetres L A. Whitney, Boston A A., beat this by putting 13 metres 93 centimetres. George W Philbrook. Notre Dame university, was placed fifth Tho only British competitor was far behind. Putting the weight, final P. J. McDonald, Mc-Donald, Irish-American A C . first, 15 motres, 31 centimetres; Ralph Rose, Olympic, San Francisco, second, 15 metres 25 centimetres; L A. Whitney, Whit-ney, Boston A A , third Wonderful Struqqle. Tho final of tho 5,000 metres raco will rank after the 800 metres race in which, on Monday, James E Meredith Mer-edith made the record time of 1 minute min-ute 51 9-10 seconds, as the greatest race thus far In the Olympic games It was a wonderful struggle between J. Bouin, France, and II. Kohlomain-en, Kohlomain-en, Finland. E. W. Hutson, England, who won third place, passed George V. Bonhag, I. A A. C , at the Inst moment mo-ment and crossed the tape a foot ahead of the American The Finn and Frenchman were five yards abend of the field on the fourth lap, -10 yards on the sixth lap. 110 yards on tho ninth lap, 150 yards on the tenth lap and finished 1C0 yards abend The Finn led for seven Japs, but tho Frenchman was a yard ahead on tho twelfth lap, when the Finn spurted spurt-ed on the home stretch and crossed the tape a yard in front of the Frenchman, French-man, who threw up his hands as if saying, "I'm done." During the first mile Bonhag took third place. At the end of tho fourth lap the order was Bonhag, Scott, South Paterson Y. M. C A., Decoteau, Canada. Can-ada. At the eighth lap M Karlsson, Sweden, passed Bonhag. but was unable un-able to stay nnd soon fell behind. On the ninth lap Tel S. Berna. Cornell, was leading the field, with Karlsson and Bonhag sldo by side just behind him. and Hutson, tho Englishman next At tho opening of the tenth lap the order was Berna, Bonhag, Scott and Hutson. The American hopes of winning second place ran high, although the race belonged to any of thc five runners. run-ners. Bonhag and Hutson made a fine effort In the last 50 yards hut tho Englishman passed them ten yards from the finish, only a foot or two ahead, with Karlsson, Berna and Scott close behind. In the pole vault trials the following follow-ing Americans qualified at 365 centimetres centi-metres (122 feet) for the fiuals tomorrow: to-morrow: Frank T. Nelson, Yale uulversity, Frank D. Murphy, University of Ilil-, nois; Harry S Babcock. Columbia university; un-iversity; Mark S Wright, Dartmouth; G. B. Dukes, New York A. C; S. II. Bellah, Multnomah A, C. Portland; Frank J. Coyle, University of Chicago Chica-go and W. H' Fritz, Cornell university. New York. July 10. The regard In which foreign athletic experts hold the American Olympic team ls shown in a review published last week in the London Times and Just received here. From Stockholm a member of the paper's staff writes. "The fact which stands out mostly ls the great strength of the American team It is generally recognized to be by far the strongest, not merely in point of numbers, but .also In ail-around ail-around ability When one learns that there arc among the Americans six men who can run the -100 metres under. un-der. -19 seconds, six who can run the 800 metres under one minute and 51 seconds; as well as ten first-cla6S hurdlers, one feels that they might be justified in theii boast that they could send over three teams, any one of which Would sweep the hoard in the stadium. "A finer lot of men was probably never got together The average height is nearly 6 feet and not oven the Swedish gymnasts are more symmetrically sym-metrically built, The English athletes on thc othor hand, and especially tho distance runners, are built on a small scale. One fears onco again that wo shall have to recognize that a good "big one always beats 'a good little one ' "Whoevor ls to beat the Americana this year must not only be a great athlete, but must undergo a thorough and scientific course of training and In this Americans are of course preeminent. pre-eminent. Not even the Swedes, and they have an American trainer, havo anything like the care lavished on them that has been spent on the Americans. Am-ericans. "Partly, It is of course, the reBult of the American genius for specializing specializ-ing and concentration on whatever may be the Immediate thing In hand whether in sports or in business. Part-lj, Part-lj, and by no menns the least. It Is n question of dollars. How much in tho aggregate the United States will spend In bringing the athletes to thc post se are not privileged to know In any event the contrast with the ineffectiveness of the British Olympic council is almost ludicrous " oo |