Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

out of the woods over there. The best Old
World timber topper appears to be X.
Powell of Cambridge university, and he is
two-fifths of a second behind the Yankees.
Each Of the American trio is credited with
a record of fifteen and o~ne-fifth
seconds, but Shaw's style of hur-
ding should prove safer over the En-
lsh obstacles. He jumps higher and
cleaner than either Smithson or Garrels,
and as the English hurdles will be pegged
into the ground Shaw will be lees liable to
fall. The man who happens to strike a
hurdle in England never escapes a header.
Hillman and Bacon, the men allotted to
the 4OO-meter hurdle, will meet with a de-
cidedly sitter proposition from j. b.. Den
sham, the Englishman. The race over
there will be run on grass, and this means
that the American will come nowhere near
the time done in Philadelphia.
In the 1000 meters relay race America
has a good fighting chance and the out
come depends on how Sheppard and Tay-
Tor compare with Halswell and Just. If
the middle distance men from here are
able to hold the saXons the sprinters
should be able to do their part and victory
should go to the Stars and Stripes. The
three-mile team race is a moral certainty
for the Britishers, with Sweden a good
second, America and France fighting it
out for third.
The two walking events can be dealt
with quite easily. With such crack heel
and toe experts and champions as Larner,
Thompson, Youmans, Carter and Harrison
available England will have the softest
kind of a job to win all three places.
Marathon n Guess.
The Marathon race of twenty-five miles
from the royal grounds at Windsor to the
Stadium is by far the most important event
on the program. 1t is the one race requir-
ing stamina and speed above all others.
To dlssect the probable result is not an
easy task, for there is such a broad field
for accident. But the thing not to be for
gotten is that the Englishmen haEe the ad-
vantage, for every man who at all aspires
to be a starter has already been over the
course. Several have shown good time, the
best being Duncan, who won the big trial
given by the Polytechnic HsrTiers and his
performance was considerably enhanced by
the fact that the Saturday previous he had
won the national ten miles championship.
The English team has not Yet been made
known, but along with Duncan there is
some fine material TO draw from in Rob
ertson, the national cross-country cham
J pion; Appleby, holder of the fifteen-mile
record, and such ex-champions as Aldridge,
Underwood, Deakin, Pearce and several
others.
BY his win in the Boston Marathon Nor
rissey, Mercury Athletic club, is regarded
as the ablest representative from this side
of the pond, but there is one thing against
him, and that is his youth. The Yonkers
lad is hardly seasoned enough 10 plug
along with such hardened campalgners as
will be found on the English team. Given
a nice even gait and not too fast at the
start, Morrissey could run a fine race and
say every foot Of the way. but that will
not be the way Of the English Marathon.
It will be a tearing match from the word
go with the Britishers trying to run every
man off bis feet. Forshaw, Missouri Ath-
letic club is a more ~toughened man than
Morrissey and he has the advantage of
experience in the big contest, for he was
at Athens in 1906 and finished in tenth
place. Hayes. Irish Amateur Athletic club,
and Hatch. Chicago, are sturdy fellows, es-
pecially the latter, who is a little older
than Hayes.
Should John Svanberg not run for Swe-
den very likely Ivar Lundberg viii take his
place, and the ~lstter's record for the
twenty-five miles is two hours fifty min
utes ten and three-fifths seconds. II Is
unknown who the French will send for
the Marathon, but the best German is NJ.
JuTischka, and he has covered twenty-fouT
and three-quarters miles In three hours
two minutes fifteen and two-fifths seconds
The best Norwegian at the game is Hall
stein Bjerke, and for the fun course OF
twenty-five miles his time was three hours
two minutes twenty-five and one-fifth sec.
3 onds.
) America should score effectively in the