The age-herald., 1900-07-16
AMERICANS WON
 EIGHT-OUT OF TEN
Some Great Sport in the Events
 at Paris.
SLIGHT JAR WAS CAUSED
Americans Objected to Entering the Contests on Sunday, But the Frenchmen Insisted the Finals
 Should be Contested

Paris, July 15.-Americans won eight out ] of ten events today. The incident caused
 quite an unpleasant jar. It was understood by the Americans that the French had | agreed that the field events in which they had entered, and in which it was proposed
 that the finals should come off today, l would be so arranged that the Americans objecting to Sunday competition could con test alone on Monday, and that the records then might be counted in reaching the l final awards. Last night the French held | meeting, and decided that events set for | today must be concluded finally on the | grounds today, but that records made in the preliminary trials yesterday would stand. The American teams filed a protest with A G. Spading against the change | of programme.
 The representatives of the University had l large share in todays winnings, and their contesting caused some feeling among | the other college men.
 | As the Americans were so successful some of the bad feelings disappeared but they must have held more seconds and | thirds if the change had not been made at
 the last minute and scarcely without warm | ing.
 The grandstand was largely occupied by | Americans, who cheered their champions
 with much vim, especially when George | w. Orton of the University of Pennsylvan- ia, seeming to be out of the long steeple
 chase. made a magnificent spurt beating an Englishman who looked a certain win ner as they came down the stretch. The | enthusiasm at this point was intense. l Tbp at n m
 but it was o'clock before the last event | was over. The first heat in the siXty-metre
 fiat went handily to Kraenslein, with E. J.
 Mnahan of Georgetown University second,
 and Pritchard, of the English team, third.
 Time, ' seconds. Klingelhoefer, French,
 and Westeragen, Swede, also ran. | In the second heat Walter B. Tewlks- l bury managed to breast the tape just | ahead of Rowley of New South Wales, with | William J. Holland of the University of | Georgetown third. Time, 2 Is seconds. Kop-
 pan and Schulce, Hungarians, also ran.
 A Pretty Contest
 The final was a pretty contest, the men
 being breasts apart at the finish, with
 Kraenslein first, Tewksbury second, and
 Rowley third. Time, seconds.
 l Richard Sheldon of the New York Ath
 
 for the final in the shot-putting, as J. c. | McCracken of the University of Penn
 sylvania and Robert Garrett of Princeton
 University refused to compete on Sunday.
 Crettieri, Hungarian and Paraskevo- poulos, Greek, took their places. Neither of
 these could outstrip the puts made yester- day by McCracken and Garrett and the
 final resulted with Sheldon first at II me- | tras and 1O ceptimetreS which is said to beat the worlds record; McCracken second | at 12 metres and Garrett third at 12 me- l tres and 37 centimetres
 Only three started in the final of the 400 metres flat Messrs. Lee, Frederick G. Moloney of the University of Michigan and
 Dixon Boardman of the New York Athletic | Club who had also qualified. refused to run today. This left Maxwell Long of the | New York Athletic Club William J. Hol- 1 land of the University of Georgetown and
 Schulz, Dane. At the crack of the pistol
 Holland set a merry pace and held it well | into the stretch, when Long caught him. | The two had a heartbrealxing run to the | finish, which Long reached onet yard in | advance of Holland, Schulz being further | est to the rear. Time, 049 2-5 beating the | French record of 0:50 3-5. Had the other Americans started, America would have undoubtedly gained first, second and third | Had todays records alone decided the results of the discus throw, Sheldon would | have won, for today he outstripped his | Hungarian competitor. But the records | made in the prelimnaries stood in the | finals and yet they did better, with the | suit of Beauer, Hungarian, was first, and | Janda, Austrian, second, with Sheldon | third. Soderstrom, Swede, and Paraskevo- | poulos also competed
 l Nine Contestants started
 The 1,5OO metres flat race brought nine l contestants to the tape, representing Dem | mark England, France Austra and the | United States. Messrs. David c. Hall of | Brown University and John Bray of Will | jams College, were the two American en- 1 tries. Almost from the start the race 1 seemed a contest between Bennett, Eng
 fish, and Deloge, French. These two l raced around the turns close together, and, as they entered the stretch they drew away from the others and had a hard tus- 1 sel with Bennett first by two yards and | Deloge second. Bray was third Time, | 4:O6 Christensen, Dane; Krashtila, Aus | trian; Louis, French Rimmer, English, | and Pukl, Austrian, ran.
 | Although William P Remington of the
 University of Pennsylvania, and Carroll
 entered, I. K. Baxter of the University of Pennsylvania was the only American in
 the running high jump. He easily retained
 his reputation, winning first place with | 19O centimetres. He made an effort to clear
 197 centimetres which would have given him the worlds championship, but he
 walled During his efforts all the specta-
 tors swarmed about the space in which the
 jumping was going on and gave vent to | the greatset enthusiasm.
 | In fact the American victories were quite