The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-15
Miscellaneous.
MAKE GOOD SHOWING
American College Athletes Con-
test at Paris.
THEY HOLD THEIR OWN
CAPTURE TWO FINALS AND A
NUMBER OF TRIAL HEATS.

Paris. July 1.-THE American ath-
letes, fresh from their victories in Lon
don, won two events decided today
and secured leading places in all the
trials which took place during the open
ing day of the worlds amateur cham
pionships held under the auspices of the
exposition. The contests were inaugur-
ated with magnificent weather at the
Paris Racing club, in Precatlan, a
charmingly situated glade in the Bots
de Boulogne.
The Americans started by winning
the first heat in the 10 meters hurdles
and places in the other two heats,
Which they converted into a complete
victory in the final heat by winning
hrst second and third places. This
they followed up by winning first and
second places in the 100 meters fiat race
and they would have been first sec
end and third but for an accident to
DuHy, who won his heat quite handily,
as we'll as the semi-final, only to have
a tendon of his left leg give way while
leading in the final heat when half the
| distance from the tape.
| The Americans then won two heats
out of three in the 800 meters fiat race,
/
| race and both heats in the 400 meters
hurdles race. They also have three out
OF the five men who have qualified for
| the final in the broad jump and three
IN leading places out of five qualify
/ ing for the final shot putting contest.
while Sheldon will represent the Unit
ed states in the remaining event, the
discus throwing, which, Judging from
/ today'S performances, is likely the only
| event W h -
( 10 carry off out of the eight events in
which they started.
Americans Finished Laughing.
| The feature of today's meeting kas
| not only the number of events in which
the Americans won, but the perfect ease
| with which they outstripped their COM
petltors, often finishing first and second
in the trial heats laughing, side by side
and in canter. The ITO meters hurdle
race was divided into three preliminary
/ meats. The final resulted as cabled,
kraenzlefn winning without being hard
pushed in Is 2-5 seconds, the French
| record on the turf
! The Americans then contested in an
/ event not usually on sporting pro-
grammes in the United States-that of
! the discus throwing. Twenty men COM
/ peted, chiefly Hungarians Swedes and
! creeks. The Americans furnished a
/ contingent of five-McCracken. Hare
! Garrett. Flanagan and Sheldon. The
I last named secured a place among the
+ IVe who will dispute the final. Shell
don made long puts, but they we're
badly directed, striking a tree or the
fence. He gained third place with
"a metres 10 centimetres. A Hungarian,
Bauer, was first with So metres cen
tlmetres. Janda, Bohemian. was sec
ond with 80 metres centimetres.
! The preliminary of the 500 metres
! nat race brought eight Americans on
/ the track out of thirteen runners. The
| closest of three heats was the first
which Tysoe, an Englishman; Grant
and Drumheller both of PENNSYLVANIA:
a Dane named Christensen, Hall of
! Brown university, a Frenchman named
| SalOmez, and HAYES of Michigan uni
versity competed. Hayes made the
running until turning into the stretch,
] when Hall and Tysoe worked to the
front and Tysoe won by half a yard
! in the excellent time of / minute 80
! seconds.
The second heat was won by a
Frenchman, Beloge. A Hungarian.
! Speide, was second, and Scrofford of
/ Syracuse university was third The
last named headed the contestants for
three-quarters of the distance, and
looked like winner until Beloge and
Spelde passed him, the former winning
easily in 2 minutes 80 seconds. His
victory was hailed with great enthusi-
asm by the French spectators, who
otherwise were rarely demonstrative.
His time was slower than Halls. but
he took matters leisurely and the gen
erdl opinion is that he will have to be
seriously reckoned with in the final.
The third heat was contested among
the Americans, Credan of Princeton,
Bray Of Williams and Lord of Chicago
university finishing in the order named
The firsts and seconds in these heats
will compete in the final.
Duffy's Knee Gives Way.
Twenty athletes stripped for the six
J trial heats of the 100 metres fiat race
ten being Americans. Austria. Itay
Germany, Australia, Denmark and
British India were represented by their
c-acks in this sprint but Duffy was
selected by practically everybody as a
certain winner, his splendid perform
ances in the preliminary and semi
hnal, winning, as he did, apparently
without effort, strengthening this
opinion. When the pistol was fired fo1
the final he left the mark like shot
and had already assumed what ap-
peared to be a decisive lead, when he
was seen TO wobble, and a moment later
he fell heavily to the ground. A groan
of disappointment and sympathy rose
from the crowd of Americans, which
changed almost Immediately to a
shout of victory as Jarvis breasted the
winning tape two feet ahead of Tewks-
berry, with Rowley, the Australian. a
close third, thus securing the trophy
for America in spite of Duffy's misfor-
tune.
The semi finals of the 100 metres dash
were Won by Duffy, Tewksbury, Jar
Wis and Rowley. The finals were won
by Horace F. Jarvis, Princeton. first;
w. B. Tewksbury, University of Penn
sylVania. second, and Stanley RootIey
champion of New South Wales. third
The best time was 10 As seconds. made
by Jarvis in the preliminary, and
IeWSbury in the Semi-final
Then came the Shot-putting. in which
the foreign contingent had no show
Inc contest assumed the character ot
friendly rivalry among the Americans
whose final victory was an absolute
certainty. Sheldon of the New Yoyl
Athletic club upheld his reputation anC
dropped the shot far ahead of his com.
pet1tors- McCracken of the JJniversit,
OF Pennsylvania was nearest TO him
with Garrett of Princeton third. SheI
dons best put was thirteen metre,
eighty eentimetres, McCracken's wa,
twelve metres eighty-five centimetre.
ana CARROTS twelve metres thirty.
three eentimetres. Sheldon thus dir
not DO so well as he did in op1,,-, -