New-York tribune., 1900-07-16


around the turns close together, and as they en-
tered the stretch they drew away from the others
and had a hard tussle. which Bennett won by
Time. minutes & seconds Christensen, Dane;
Kraschtil Austrian: Louis. French: Rimmer,
English, and Pukl, Austrian, also ran.
AMERICAN VICTORIES POPULAR.
Although William P. Remington. of the Uni
versfty of Pennsylvania, and Carroll entered
I. n. Baxter of the University of Pennsylvania
the only American in the running high
jump. He easily retained his reputation. win
ming first place with 100 centimetres. He made
an effort to clear 1877 centimetres which would
have given him the worlds championship. but
he failed. During his efforts all the spectators
swarmed about the space in which the jumping
was going on, and gave vent to the greatest en-
thusiasm.
In fact. the American victories were quite
popular throughout the day with all present.
The Europeans. representing the various coun-
tries, gave the Americans hearty welcome as
they came to the scratch in every event. Leahy,
Irish, was second in the high jump, with 1I6
centimetres. and Goenzy Hungarian. third with
10 centimetres. Angersen. NorWeglan' Step-
pin, German; Blom, Swede, and Monnler'
French, also jumped.
The FrenChmen were loud in their shouts as
the contestants for the 400 metres hurdle came
upon the track, NJ TauZin, who has held the
French record for years, was considered sure
Tewkesbury went to the front as soon as the
pistol was fired and never headed. He
jumped clearly, followed closely by Tauzln, Or
ton bringing uD the rear. Thus they hnlsheo,
although it was thought that Orton would beat
Tauzin, he did so in the trials yesterday.
Tewkesbury won rather easily but Tauzln was
only a yard ahead of Orton. Time-ot 30
seconds.
The > 2500-metra steepIechase handicap which
included stone fences, a water jump, hurdles and
other obstacles. created greater enthusiasm than
all the other events of the day. Six men came to
the scratch With Alexander Grant and Edward
r. Bushnell, of the University of Pennsylvania,
declining to participate the duty fell upon Ofton
or Newton to win the event for America ana ana
right well the former did 1t. England telt con-
fident with Robinson. while France had Chas-
TAME. Duhnoe represented Germany ana
KraschtiI Austria England and France made
nearly all the running, with OrtOn resting at
fourth place at the first takewater. On the
second round America, France and England
took the water jump abreast. On the third
and fourth rounds England France and the two
Americans were the only ones remaining in the
race, so hot had been the pace Orton was last
and many thought, virtually out Of It; but on
turning home he woke up. passing Chastanie,
and Robinson succumbed when about one hun
dred yards from the tape, Orton CT F3lhg the
tape five yards ahead of him, RobinaCn oelng
about the same distance in front Newton.
The time was minutes "a % seconds. Both
Orton and Robinson fell after crossing the line,
but they were about again.
Although Johnson and Dvorak were out Of
the pole vault, the Americans felt certain of
winning there. The contest was long drawn
out. Finally Baxter, COlkett and Anderson
Norwegian. alone remained. Ihey tled several
times. Baxter finally winning by metres and
30 centimetres with COlkett second, Is metres
and y centimetres. and Anderson third, )
metres 20 centimetres. Hauser, Hungarian;
Nilsson and Lemming Swedes, and Gontier,
French, also competed.
The running broad jump brought the day to a
close. Kraenzein, in better form than yester-
day, outjumped Prinstein's record and won,
with metres and 1872 centimetres Prnstein
coming second. with I metres and 11l2 cent?
metres. and Leahy third with six metres and
So centimetres. Delaney, French, also jumped.
Prinstein felt very bad over the outcome,
and offered to jump against Kraenzlein to settle
the question of superiority tomorrow, but the
latter declined.
The contests will continue tomorrow, when
there viii be a 200-metre hurdle race, the ham
mer throwing event, the hop. step and jump; the
4 900 metre steepIechase, the standing high and
broad jumps and the tug of war.
Arthur F. Duffy, of Georgetown University,
who fell yesterday in the final heat of the 100
metre dash, is quite lame, and does not expect
TO be able to for several months.