Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-09-01
GREAT WORK.
Athletes in Worlds Fair
Olympic Games.
One Worlds Record Falls Be-
fore ProWess Of American.
Three Clympic Records Broken at ST..
Louis.

Worlds Fair Stadium, st. Louis, Aug
9l.-Again have the athletes competing
in the track and field events Of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition revival
of the Olympic games demonstrated
that they are the peers oc any pre-
vious aggregation Of international
Character.
Today. tie third Of the 1901 Olympic.
one Wnrld's record fell before the
proves" Of IN American. three Olympic
records We're broken, the laurcls going
TO two Americans and \ Creek ana one
olympic ana worlds record Was
broken. but owing to an unfortunata
accident. the tiIAe will not he ALLOW, /
as the official record.
II. l.. IIilman Of the New York Ath-
lt1lc t'Uh, ran the 4C0-motre hurdle
III J 20 seconds under the Olympic ANA
worlds r@cord. Hillman was forced the
entire distance by Frank Waller OF the
milwaukee, Athletic Club. who finished
second. and in The eNcitnrncnt of tho
race Iiiliman failed to clear the las.
hurdl" clcaHIy ana tn" barrier fuII to
the ground. diSGuaIifyinG his record.
but not affecting the result of tho race
The .29-metrc run again brought out
field of record breakers. Archie Hahn
Of the Milwaukee Athl, tic Club Won
tho event. but secured an advant1% g NJ
the stIrt of two yards over his three
competitors, the latter having made Il
false start. and receiving penalties s.
Pericies IIHkousis oc Athens. Gree c..
A;,d everything his own way in lifting
the har-hrll. and won the event by lift
ing 4 weight Of 1856 pounds.
Hakousis Ihrn went after the Olym-
plan record. which is also regarded 4 :
the worlds record. ana raised oiG
pounds. four ounces mere than the re-
cord made by the Danish athletic,
Jensen. Of the Copenhagen a. G., at the
Athens Olympian in 1895.
Ralph W. Rose of the Chicago Ath-
letic Association. played ducks and
brakes with the Olympic end worlds
records in the 16-pound shot put. His
first essay buried the Olympic record
ard came within two inches OF the
w0rlI's record. He tried twice more
before he succeeded i'll smashing the
latter with Il put of As feet, { inches.
The former Olympic record was 49
feet. 31s inches. made by II. sheldon OF
the New York \. c. AT Paris. in the
1909 revival Of the olympic games
ana the former worlds record was As
feet. inches.
400-meIre hUrlle-H. j. Hillmnn,
New York 4. c.. first: Frank Waller.
NJ. y. G., Milwaukee. second; George
a. rn,.a Al q Nr;1,,,,l-aa tbir,,
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Time. 80.
As Was eXpcctel UilI,0an ran thp
1no-n,.t,.a t,,,.51o Il, I,,,t, ti,,, Wilt,
""'"i' III "'tlcr ti!ie thiil'
the worlds record of al 3-5, he'd by
j. w. Il. Tcwkshury. University OF
PcnrSyIynnin. I-nfnrI1,nataIv hnv-
49,, H. 1-,,|,,1.,., ,,,,,.
-, ~ N""' -, 80 q i'"' ,'i' 80" ;" re"
me inlSh, which prevents his time. .53
fiat. being accent. d as a lyorId's record
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ne summary.
One mile run. handicap event: ]. j.
Daily, Ireland Co vartisl. H~-t: o. 4
Aiuiieon. New York \. {. New York a.
YARDS second: Peter rc.r, Montreal.
Canada 90 YARDS. third: Jo-"- h FnrahIw.
NJ a. G.. 81. Louis Is yuru.l. fourth.
Time. ~ -.
Putting l6-pound SHOT: Ralph w. Rose.
c. a. A., Chicago, first IS feet. inches
thrc1iiug Olympic record of &c feet. 3 .
inches and worlds record Of IS feet. :
inCn"S1: w. w. COe, Jr.. SOmCrN iilC.