The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-21
AMERICANS
 HAVE INNING Win Large Share of Olympic Events. DANIELS WINS SWIM EASILY In Flat Races Our Boys Cross Tape
 First Few Americans went To The Hurdles A. Most Of Them Had Just
 Run In The Flat
DANIELS WINS SWIM EASILY
Few Americans went To The Hurdles

London July 20--The second week of the Olympic contest began with the first day devoted principally to field sports such as Americans are accus- toned to witness.
 The track athletes were the stars and the program contained many fast and exciting events. The American and British runners and Jumpers gathered in the lions share of the laurels, as usual, but the Americans exceeded even the expectations of their supporters.
 Several hundred Americans. mostly tourists with many ladies, who were massed together in the seats next to the royal box. gave an exhibition of cheering which suggested anR Amert- can college crowd and immensely amused the foreigners. The attendance at the games was fair. but the weather in the afternoon was gloomy and threatened rain. The competitors from the United States are deploring the continual absence of sunshine. un- der which they can do their best work.
 The spectacular features today were the seventeen trial heats of the 100 metres sprint and the eight trial heats of the 800 metres. These furnished several close and stirring finishes, Tn the sprint, America captured eight heats and Great Britisn four. J. A. Rector. of the University of Virginia was the particular star, for he beat quite handily K. c. Macleod of Cam bridge. the holder of three varsity blues. who never before was beaten and in doing so. he beat the Olympic record for the distance of 10 4-5 sec onds.
 The names of Sheppard. Halstead and Beard, Americans. went upon the black board as the winners of their heats in the 800 metres race. This event proved a disappointment to the English. who wefe counting upon more than the two heats they took. The German. Braun, much to the surprise of the English men. outran HoIling. who was one of their mainstays Lunghf of Italy, beat H. L. Coe, of the University of Michigan in the excellent time of t:57 Is and he and Just, the Cambridge half-mile champion, who captured the sixth heat in 1:57 4-5 will give the Americans a hard tussel in the finals.
 C. J. Bacon. Irish-Arnerican Athletic Club. captured his heat of the 500 metres hurdle race in ;S7 seconds. win ming by twenty-five yards, while Coe distinguished himself by defeating Densham, the former British champion although he had just contested hard 300 metres against Lunghi The Brit ish won six and the Americans three of the nine heats In the hurdles, but the majority of these were unexciting because they were walkovers.
 The American colors were raised to the flag pole three times signifying victory in the finals in the 100 metres swimming, the standing broad jump. and the bantam catch -as-catch- can wrestling. but these triumphs did not inspire such thrflfB as the track per- formances because few spectators in the vast stadium could see them.
 The result today added three wins to Americans score and one to France, the other nations not improving their positions. In the field events Ameri- cans added six points. while Greece, the only other nation to increase it's score in these contests, picked up three. Amrfca is now only eight points be- hind the United Kingdom. the score reading
 United Kingdom ..... ... ...54
 America .... ...46 ished a hard 800 metre race. Few Americans went to the hurdles, as most of them had just run the 800 metres flat and the others had to reserve themselves for the other heats of the same event, which for reason best known to the Amateur Athletic As- sociation. came after the 400 metre hur- dle.
 The American committee did not like this arrangement as 1t practically as- sured the United Kingdom success in the hurdles. but it was useless to ob- ject as the protest in all probability would have been over-ruled-