The age-herald., 1900-07-15

closest of the three heast was the third. Tyson and English, and Grant and Dru- miller, both of Pennsylvania; a Dame named Christensen: Hall of Brown Uni versity; Frenchman named Salomez, and Hayes of Michigan University, competed. Hayes made the running until turning into the stretch, when Hall and Tyson worked to the front, and Tyson won by half a yard in the excellent time of :59 The sec ond heat was won by a Frenchman named Bellograw Hungarian Speide was second and Scrofford of Syracuse University was third. The last named headed the contest ants for three-fourths of the distance, and looked like winner until 4A llograw passed him, winning easily in 5:35. The third heat was contested among the Ahnericans-Cre- gan or Princeton, Bray of Williams, and Lord of Chicago University, finishing in this order
 The first and seconds in these heats will compete in the final
 Twenty athletes stripped for the six trial heats ot the l00-metre flat races, three be- Ing Americans. Austro- Hungary, Italy, Germany, Australia, Denmark and British India were represented by their cracks in thls sprint. But Duffy was selected by practically everybody as a certain winner, ms past performances in the preliminaries apparently winning without effort, warrant ing that opinion.
 Duffy Collapsed
 When the pistol was fired for the final ne left the mark like a shot and had al- ready assumed what appeared to be a long iead, when he was seen to wobble and moment later he fell heavily to the ground A groan of disappointment and sympathy rose from the crowd of Ameri- cans, which changed almost immediately to shout Of victory as Jarvis breasted the winning tape two feet ahead of Tewksbury With Rowley, the Austrian a close third thus securing the trophy for America in splte or Duffys misfortune. The first heat oI the IoO-metre dash was won by Duffy, With Maloney second. Macy, an Austrian, also ran. The second heat was won by Iewksbury, with McClain of Pennsylvania second; Hungarian, Koppan, also ran.
 The introduction of American college characters into today's proceedings was a complete revelation to the Frenchman and other foreigners. At the first yell they ap- parently imagined an invasion of wild h. ulans mad occurred, but after hearing the various cries about hundred times during the day they appreciated the fact that it was simply an outburst of American en- 'husiasm or encouragement of the college men, great number of whom were pres ent. The Frenchmen, however, could not become reconciled to this form of charge ana they were heard to exclaim: What A band of savagesp
 Ihe American methods of starting il1mn- Ing and shot putting were also matters of great interest to the Europeans. who watched curiously the crouching posture of the sprinters as they waited for the firing of the pistol and the elaborate prep arations of each American athlete for a Jump and to them the peculiar method of shot-putting.
 The physique of the Americans compared very favorably with that of the Europeans, and Sheldon's figure attracted much atten- ton. Much confusion marked several stages of the exercises although the of- ficials were always courteous and fair
 Duffy was greatly disappointed at his collapse. He said to a representative of the Associated Press:
 Il don't know why my leg gave way. felt peculiar twitching after going 20 yards. then seemed to lose control of 1t and suddenly it gave out, throwing me on my face. don't think I can compete here again."
 The prizes are objects of art valued at 400 francs for the first, 200 francs for the second, and 50 francs for the third, in the foot races, and 250 francs for the first, and 80 francs for the second in the other sports.