Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-09-08
FAMOUS OLYMPIC GAMES.
Athletes Of Foreign Nations Meet
Those fom America at St. Louis.

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Athletes Of Foreign Nations Meet
Those fon America at St. Louis.
st. Lous, Aug. 3l.-The Olympic
/ Marathon race the third foot race
| contest oithe kind ever held and the
| first everhcld on American soil par
ticipated by 81 men classed among
the leetet runners of the world. was
won yestrday by Thomas J. Hicks, of
Cambridge, Mass. who is the first
Americanto win this event celebrated
in the revival of Olympic games
St LOus, Sept. 1.-Again have the
athletes ompetng in the track and
field evens of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition revival OF the Olympic
games demonstrated that they are the
peers of any previous aggregation of
international character.
II. l.. Iillman, of the New York
Athletic club, ran the 400 meter
hurdle 3 2-5 seconds under the
Olympic md worlds record.
The 20-meter run brought out a
field OF record breakers. Archie Hahn,
Of the Milwaukee A. c., won the first
heat in tie record time of % Is sec
onds. II, fought the distance with w.
]. Cartmll, of Louisville, Ky, and
only won by inches. The second heat
was trfe slower, but Hogenson was
not push,d The final (the distance
by American measurement of the 200
meters Icing 2:1S.73 yards) resulted
in the lowering of the Olympic record
by three fifths of a second. Hahn won
the even
Pericl,s Kakousis, of Athens,
Greece, had everything his own way
in lifting the bar bell.
KakOlsis then went after the Olym-
pic reco'd, which Is also regarded as
the words record. He first lifted 200
pounds and then had the weight ad-
justed to 246 pounds, four ounces
more thin the record made by the
Danish athlete, V. Jensen, at the Ath-
ems Olynpiad in 1896. His first at
tempt wis successful.
Ralph w. Rose, of the Chicago Ath-
letic association, played ducks and
brakes With the records in the 16-
pound shot put. His first essay buried
the Olympic record and came within
two inches of the worlds record. He
tried twice more before he succeeded
in smashing the latter with a put of
4S feet Z inches.
international tug of war, teams of
five men, weight unlimited. Milwau-
kee A. c. defeated the Boer team. st.
Louis team No. defeated the Pan
Hellenic Athletic club, of Athens,
Greece. Milwaukee defeated ST. Louis
team No. !. The New York A. c. team
Infnatn, I p,,is, NJ,
st. Louis, Sept. 2.-American ath-
letes held the center of the stage yes
terday in the Olympic games and to
their pluck belongs the credit for Gre
atinS one worlds record and three
Olympic records.
One of the greatest races was the
800 meter run. The distance in Amer
lean measure is S74.S9 yards. Entered
in the race were representatives of
the United States, Germany, Canada
and New Zealand, but the first four
places were claimed by men running
under the colOrs Of Chicago, New
York and Milwaukee athletic clubs.
Not only did James d. Lightbody, of
the Chicago Athletic association,
lower the Olympic record by 2-5 sec
'liho' but lIt an Nllt ltSa Oll Illt Ntl
man representative, who collapsed at
the finish.
The discus throw attracted little at
tention until the annOuncers called
the result of NJ. J. Sheridan's first
throw. 1t came within a few inches
of equalling the worlds record, made
by himself, of 127 feet 91a inches.
When Sheridan again stepped into
the seven-foot ring the crowd awaited
almost breathlessly while the steel
discus whirled through the air. The
measurers raced to the spot where
the discus had buried itself 13O feet 9
inches from the starting point.
The result OF the measurement was
greeted with cheers, but the demon
stration was as nothing to that which
followed the next throw, 1872 feet even.
The result of the 56-pound event
proved a disappointment. 1t was ex-
pected that Flanagan, of the Greater
New York Irish Athletic association,
would break the Olympic record and
possibly the worlds record. The New
Yorker was bested by a foot by E.
Desmarteau, of Montreal, Canada.
The latter's best throw was "a feet 4
inches,
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