The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-07-28

The other events in the Stadium
We're tame as compared with the Mar
athon, although they added to the
victories of the American team of ath-
letes. In the pole vault A. Q. Gilbert
of Yale and E. L. Cooke of Cornell
tied for first place with II feet 2
inches, and the gold and silver medals
go to America, while c. s. Jacobs of
the University of Chicago tied with
Sonderstrom of Sweden and Archibald
of Canada for third with a vault of
IL feet 8 inches. America also cap
tured all the heats in the 10 meter
hurdle race, insuring all the places in
the final of that event, which will be
run today. The Americans also won
their heat in the 1000 meter relay race,
defeating the teams of the United
Kingdom and Canada, and will run in
the final against Hungary and Ger
many.
Sweden captured all three prizes in
the high diving. The United Kingdom
won the 200 meter team swimming
race and the catch-as-catch-ca light
to lat pounds wrestling. The Greco
Roman heavyweight wrestling went to
Hungary. The jsaber and epee indi-
vidual fencing was won by Fusch of
Hungary and the fencing epee indi-
yidual competition by Albert of
France.
j. c. Carpenter, the Cornell univer-
sity fiier, carried Old Glory under the
wire ahead of all competikors in the
final heat Of the 400 meter run. The
speedy son of Uncle Sam covered the
distance in the great time of At As Sec
onds, smashing the former Olympic
record of 4S % seconds made by Lieu
tenant Wyndham Halswelle of the
Edinburgh Harriers and London Ath-
letic club in the second semifinal heat.
w. s. Robbins of the Cambridgeport
gymnasium, Cambridge, Mass, was
second, only a stride behind Carpenter.
Halswelle, the former record holder,
was third and John Taylor, the negro
runner of the Irish-American Athletic
club and the University of Pennsyl-
vania, would have been fourth if he
had been allowed to finish
That was the correct order of finish
as vouched for by H. H. Baxter of the
New York Athletic club, who has had
many years experience in athletics
and whose reputation as a good, clean
sportsman is known and respected in
every country of the globe, The Brit
ish officials, however, declared the race
void and disqualified Carpenter, alleg-
ing he had fouled Halswelle by fore
ing him to run wide and elbowing him.
The action of the officials cost America
eight points.
The other events of the games seem
unimportant compared with the erup-
ton over the 400 meter race. The 200
meter sprint was splendid contest
Kerr, the Canadian won, as was an
ticipated, but the Americans, Cloughen
and Cartmell, gave him a fierce strug-
gle, the three finishing almost t0geth-
er. Kerr received great ovation.
The standing high jump was almost
exclusively an American event. Ray
Ewry, New York Athletic club, won
in the final, topping the bar at feet
IL inches. The Greek competitor,
Tsiclitaras, was an inch below him,
tieing with ]. A. Biller of the Brook
Ign Central Y, NJ. G. A. Holmes gain
ed certificate of merit for jump Of
five feet
Melvin Sheppard of the Irish-Amer-
lean Athletic club, who but few days
past broke the British hearts by out
CHASING the cream of their middle dis
lance runners in the 1900 meter race
and set a new Olympic mark in nego-