Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-07-26
PARIS CONTESTS ENDED.
Very Few Americans Participated
IL the Final Events.
BARRED ~ UNFAIR HANDIOAPs

In the SIX Events Our Athletes Par
tfciputed in T.r"c, winning but
One--gc,r.iS~bury, 81 Pennsylvania
University, WEI, t!sc 2"a Gs,trc Race
Paris, July 23-The worlds amateur
championship contests IN connection
with the Paris exposition came to a
conclusion yesterday. Comparatively
few Americans attended, owing to the
fact that only three or four of their
countrymeu were announced to COM
pete in the events, for the most part
handicaps. in which the Americans had
received too severe treatment to tempt
them to exhaust themselves in run
ming losing races Six events were
decided The Americans competed in
three and won one, their only success
for the day.
The program began with the lit
meters hurdle race, \. c. Kranezlein.
University of Pennsylvania. being
made the scratch man. As the other
Americans who entered were also pull
ed back, all declined to run. Rau, a
German, with a 200 meters allowance,
won. PritchaTd, English, was second
and Klingelhoefer, French, third.
Three competitors stripped for the
shot putting. the six Americans who
had entered including Richard Shell
don, n. Y 4. c., who was the scratch
man, standing out. CrettieT, a Hun
garian, with two meters allowance,
was first. with II meters 2012 cent?
meters, Basset, Frenchman, was sec
ond and St. Cyr, French. third.
Thirty entries were received for the
200 meters flat race. which followed,
but only eight went TO the starting
post, two out of 13 Americans alone
running. Two trial heats resulted in
which William ]. Holland, University
OF Georgetown, and Walter b. Tewks-
bury. University of Pennsylvania, with
Pritchard, of the English team, and
Rowley, of New South Wales, quail
flying. The final heat gave America
her only victory of the day, and was
the occasion Of a magnificent tussle
between Tewksbury, Pritchard and
Rowley. Tewksbury beat Pritchard
by six inches Rowley was a good
third Time. p 1-5 seconds.
The 1,5C0 meters fiat handicap
brought out a good field, II starting
Most of these were Frenchmen, George
w. OrtOn, University of Pennsylvania
being the sole representative of the
United States and the scratch man.
He had no chance against his. COM
petitors with their big allowances
Duhwoyr, German, with $50 meters
handicap, won; Christensen, Dane with
80 meters handicap, being second, and
Delivre, French, with 70 meters handi-
cap, being third. Time, 3 minutes
So As seconds.
In the 400 meters fiat handicap there
were four trial heats. Maxwell e.
Long, N. Y. A. c., was the scratch
man and did not run but Holland,
with five meters allowance, and David
c. Hall, Brown university, with seven
participated. The first trial heat was
won by LemOnHier, French, with &c
meters allowance, Reginer. French
with 80 meters allowance, being sec
Ond. Koppan, Hungarian, with 35
meters allowance, won the second
heat, -Mazaud, French, with % meters
allowance, being second Holland was
40 meters allowance, won the third
heat, Moulinet, French, with 35 meters
allowance. being second Hall won
the fourth heat, Sevestre. with 80
meters allowance, being second In
the final Hall ran pluckily, but failed
to Overtake the big allowance man.
He finished fifth Koppan was first,
Werkmuller second and LemonnieI
third.
The last event and the final con-
test Of the international sports, team
fat race of 5000 meters, was disputed
by England and France Eacn team
consisted OF five picked runners, and
the contest was decided by points cal
culated according to the places obtain
ed at the finish. England secured
first, second, sixth seventh and tenth
places, totaling 20 and France OBJ
tanned third, fourth, fifth, eighth and
ninth places. totaling 26 Thus Eng
land won. Her two long distance run
ners, Bennett and Rimmer, led from
the outset. Time, 10 minutes 20 1-5
seconds.