The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
BRITONS MN NEARLY
 ALL OF FIRST PRIZES
In the Steepleohase Four Englishmer Try To Outast One American, But He Came In Third
 the Race.

the Olympic. games are held were only Saturday, there would be some chance of their proving a success from the point of view of attendance. Londoners show ed today that, given the opportunity they will support good sport, no matter what the weather conditions are, al though every person who Journeyed to the stadium this afternoon might havs made the excuse that it was too wet to go.
 The two great grandstands at either end of the stadium, the admission 10 which is fixed at shilling, were com pletely filled with a crowd similar to that which attends football matches on half-holidays.
 The covered stands. where the seats are reserved. also held a much larsef number of people than on any other pre- vious day, while the royal box, too' Wns occupied by a large party, including 'he Queen. who took keen interest Ill tne Danish athletes. Princess Victoria ana the crown prince of Sweden, who, by the way, have been present every day, ana the children of the Prince of Wales. wno were interested followers of the sports, were present.
 The weather, however, was no respecter of persons. It was cloudy and dull all the morning. during the progress Of the archery and fencing contests, but toward noon the sky cleared and 1t looked as though the afternoon would be fine h. stead, the rain came down in torrents, with but few intervals, and the officials repeatedly had to stop the sports going on in the arena.
 Contestants Get Wet.
 The cyclists and runners were the only ones who ignored the wetting they re- ceived, even the fancy divers being forced to call a halt in their contest for half an hour, as the judges were unable to do their work properly.
 So far as the Americans were concern- ed, the day passed off without any un- pleasant incident, while the Canadians had one of their grievances rectifed, the officials of the Cyclists union at the last moment allowing Young, Canadian rider to start in the 100 kilometers race, for which they declared yesterday that he did not qualify. It was proved be- yond dispute that this disqualification  cial. who placed the Canadian one lap behind where he belonged. Frances pro- test although in the cycling event, was added to by another today, Schilles pro- testing Jones' winner of the 5000 meters event Schi1les claimed a foul, but the protest was not allowed.
 In the matter of scoring, the United Kingdom completely outclassed the other countries. ner athletes adding seven wins aIY 5v TlaSa h. cluded the archery contests. the 3200 me- ters steeplechase, the 200 meters breast stroke swimming, the 5000 meters cy- cling the 100 kilometers cycling, the tug Of war and the fve-mile flat race.
 Sherldan's Great Feat.
 Tle only two other events decided the discus throwing, Greek style. and the fancy diving-went to America and Germany respectively but America &C., complished two things today of which her supporters are proud. In the first place, Martin J. Sheridan of the Irish American Athletic club broke all previ- ous records with the discus, at this style of throwing, making distance of FPS feet 8 inches while M F. Horr of the same club was second. also with rec ord breaking throw of 122 feet 51s inches The other accomplishment of which the athletes are talking was the success of J. L. Eisele of the New York Athletic club in getting third place In the 32OO meter steeplechase.
 America never had any idea of scoring in this event, particularly since Eisele had run three of the hardest races during the week He was the only American who compared with the Englishmen in the dis tance runs, and in each race he had to fight against odds, being handicapped on each occasion by having several English men pitted against him. Further he had suffered greatly with an injured foot. Just little more stamina and little luck and Eisele would have captured some of the distance events for America As it was, he ran a splendid and plucky race.
 Four Against One.
 There were four of the English team in this event, in addition to Eisele and Galbraith, the last named representing Canada The Englishmen took turns in trying to wear down the two others and succeeded in doing so with Galbraith, but Eisele held on despite a nasty fall at the water jump in the first lap, and managed to annex third place, well up.
 During this race the final of the 200- metre breast stroke swim was pulled off, and again the United Kingdom tri- umphed, taking both first and second places. The third went to Germany.
 
 masthead. proclaiming the victory of the Americans in the discus throw. The flag got rousing cheer, and when Sheridan and Horr walked out into the arena they were given an ovation by the American contingent, who were present in large numbers They had every reason to hope that they would have another opportunity to cheer their country's colors for from the fine showing made by George w. Gaidzlk of the Chicago Athletic club in the pre- liminary heats of the fancy diving, that event was conceded to him. It was an off day however for the American diver. and he made several costly mistakes. These permitted Germany to take first and second places Gaidzik only tied for third with another German.
 Britons Again Win.
 All of the other finals went to the Un- ted Kingdom, Jones doing the trick in the 6OO0-metre cycle event, with France in both second and third place. In the tug of-war the three police teams of the Lon- don, Liverpool and Metropolitan forces, respectively, gathered in the gold, silver and bronze medals. Bartlett added the l0( Kilometres cycle race to his country scoreLsAd Voight closed a most success full datyfor the United Kingdom by taking the fbd,-mile flat race in fine style.
 In ( le flve-mile event the runners had not gfne. far when Voight and Owen oi the JFhited Kingdom, svenberg of Sweden