The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-24
Yankee Athletes
FIRST At LONDON
DANIELS WINS 10o-METER SWIM
AND EWRY Is VICTOR IN
BROAD JUMP.
MANY CAPTURE HEATS
IN SPRINTING EVENTS
Among Victorious Middie-Western
Performers Are May, Hamilton and
Huff Ames of Iowa Succeeds In
the 800-Meter Flat Race.

London, July 21.-The events of the
Olympic games for which the Amer
lean athletes are suited were reached
Monday afternoon, and the boys who
had been waiting at Brighton for their
opportunity to try and win the cham
pionship in field sports for America
had their innings.
Charles M Daniels Sof the New
York A. G. started the ball rolling by
winning the 100 meters swim hand
somely, but he was unable to get his
teammate, L. G. Rich, Brookline Swim
ming club, into place. In the stand
ing broad jump both Ray G. Ewry of
the New York A. G. and Martin j.
Sheridan of the Irish-American A. G.
reached the seminal, and in the first
heat of that event. In the final of the
standing broad jump EVERY won with
10 feet liz inches. Tsiclitiras was
second with 10 feet ~ inches. Sher-
idan was third with 10 feet inches.
Many Americans Visitors.
George w. Gaidzik of the Chicago
A. A. won his heat in the high diving,
and when it came to the 100 meters
fiat race N ]. Cartmell, University
of Pennsylvania; Cloughen, Irish.
American A. c., New York; w "
May, University of Illinois; L. B.
Stevens, Yale university; William F.
Hamilton, Chicago A. A.; H. F. Huff,
Chicago A. A; Lawson Robertson
Irish-American A. c.; D. R. Sherman
Dartmouth college, and ]. A. Rector
University of Virginia, all qualified
for the next round, where they will be
pitted against E. J. Duffy of South
Africa; ]. p George, the English
crack; R. l.. Walker, South Africa
Duncan and Morton, the United King
dom; Kerr, Canada, and Stark and
Roche, United Kingdom. Rector beat
r. G. Mcleod, the Cambridge Blue
who had never previously been de
feated.
In the 500 meters fiat race the fifth
heat was won by G. B. Beard, Ames
university of Iowa. Time 1:59 As.
Lightbody Is Beaten.
In the 500 meters fiat j. D. Light
body, University of Chicago, was beat
en-, but Melvin w. Sheppard, Irish
American A. c., walked away from his
opponents in his heat. J. P. Halstead
New York A. c., also crossed the tape
ahead of his competitors in his heat
while H. L. Coe, University of Mich
gan, greatly to the surprise of all, was
defeated at the hands of Lunghi
Italy. Coe however, redeemed himself
by running ahoad of Donsham, the
British champion, in the 400 meters
hurdles, which was all the more sur.
prising in view of the fact that he had
just finished hard 500 meters race
Few Americans went to the hurdles
as most of them had just run the SOC
meters fiat and the others had to re
serve themselves for the other heats
of the same event which, for reason
best known to the Amateur Athletic
association, came after the 400 meter
hurdle.
Dislike Schedule of Races.
The American committee did not
like this arrangement, as it practically
assured the united kingdom success In
the hurdles, but it was useless to OBJ
ject, as a protest, in. all probability
would have been overruled
George M. Mehnert's wins in the
wrestling bouts must be accredited tt
American victories.
James E. Sullivan, the United States
commissioner to the Olympic games
and Matthew Halpin, the manager Of
the American team, expressed the
greatest satisfaction with the results
Of the heats in the 100 and 500 meters
fiat races and the 400 meters hurdle
Mr.. Halpin said:
1--WE got all and a little more thar
we expected Everything is all right