Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-21
EVENTS IN
 LONDON TODAY ,a Semifinals to Be Run In
 Hundred Meter. 0THEp cpnpTc ccHEnIu m
OTHER SPORTS SCHEDULED

Our Athletes Make Good Marks In
 Jumping, Hurdlins, sprintins, Wres-
 fling and swimmins-Reotor Equals
 Olympic Record Made Eight Years
 Ago In Paris-Sweden Joins Ameri-
 ca In Protest Against Method of
 Drawing Places In Eight Hundred
 Meter. Run.
 London, July 21.-The drawings for the semifinals of the 100 meter sprint, which will be run off today at the Olympic games, are as follows:
 First Heat-May and Stevens of America, Walker of South Africa and Roche of United Kingdom.
 Second Heat.-Sherman and Hamil- ton Of America, Morton of United King dom and Kerr of Canada.
 2 Third Heat-Rector and Hun of America, Duffy of South Africa and Duncan of United Kingdom. ..
 Fourth Heat. = Cloughen, Robertson and Cartmell of America and Stark and George of United Kingdom.
 The schedule for today includes the running half jump. heats in the 200 meter sprint, high diving. heats in the 1,500 meter swim and 400 meter run, the semifnal. of the 100 meter sprint and hurdles. heats in the 400 meter run. the final of the 800 meter and the final of the running high jump, In all of these events in which there are American entries they are considered to have excellent chances of taking first prizes.
 Uncle Sam's boys had the center or the stage for many hours, and wher- ever the calcium light turned it gen. orally fell upon a wearer of the red, white and blue. Ray Ewry. the Him. Der legged leaper who sports the Mer- cury foot the worlds. Olympic and American record holder at both ths standing high and the standing broad jump. c blurred the final of the last ramed event. making it his fourth con secutive Olympic victory, for he won this contest in Paris in 1900, in St. Louis in 1904 and in Athens In 1906. Martin Sheridan. the wonderful all around athlete of the Irish-American Athletic club. won third honors in the event, the point scored swelling his to- tai to II and making him the leader in the race for individual honors.
 The sturdy Yankee athletes smashed one Olympic record and equaled an- other. Charley Bacon. the big blond haired winged fist timber topper, flew the fences in his heat of the 400 meter hurdles in the great time of 5T seconds. which lowered the previous Olympic record of 5T 3-5 seconds. made by Tewksbury, the American. at the Paris 0lymplad. Bacon's world record for the 400 meter hurdles race over three foot sticks is s 4-5 seconds. made at the tryouts on Franklin field. PhIladel- phia. on June 6. Another Olympic rec ord was equaled. James Rector of the University of Virginia wiishing his heat in the 100 meter dash in the great time of 10 4-5 seconds. equaIing the Olympic record made by Jarvis, the American. in Paris in 1900. The six points SCOT ed by the Yankees in the standing jump pulls down the United King dom's lead to eight points. the point tally now standing: United Kingdom. S4. United states. 46. Sweden. 12; Greece. 6. Norway. {: Canada. |: Aus tralia. 1: France. I. Finland. i.
 It was a great day all around for the boys from Yankeeiand. The old gentleman with the goatee qualified nine men in the heats of the 100 me ter. three men Ia the S0 meter and tkree men la the 400 meter hurfles. Charley Daniels of the New York Ath- letic club won the final of the 100 me ter swim, gliding into home waters a ffth of q seco1d slower than he did last Friday. when De smashed his for ner 0iynpic record of minute i3 sec- snds by covering the 10o5 yards fn minufe . 2-5 secondHL Georxe Meh- nerr the sturdy llftle g-zppler of the kssianal Turn verpaa ef Newark. <. J~ captured the prszEer iaurels In the f1ntxzwsighf c4trh-ascztch-csn wrss fSx