The San Francisco call., 1908-07-16
Additional Sports News
Athletes of Three
Nations Win
Gold Medals Awdrded TO Credi
Britain. France and Sweden
at Olympic Games

LONDON. July 15.-The gold medals
went TO Great Britain, France ana oMo-
den as the winners of the nnais oL "
dav's events at the olympic salhoS,
Great Britain was double winner ana
1--oI,ce snd sweden each secured one
.s-st The United States had TO De
satisfied with one silver medal sym
boIic of second place in the three mile
team race. but the American repre-
sentation in the various events was
small.
There were four finals assigned TO
the dav. and of these England won the
$50 yard cycling race ana tne me III
mile team race, thus bringing the num-
her Of gold medals accredited TO Great
britain up TO date to four, as com
pared with two standing TO the creolt
of the United States. The only hhal
in which the latter country participated
was the three mile team race, ana bhe
American team finished an easy secoho-
France captured gold meoal IoI
victory in the 1000 meters tandem cy-
Gle race and Sweden for Lemmlng
record breaking javelin throw OF 1'e
feet ~ inches, which topped the pest
previous throw by more than . IeeI'
Greece. France and Great Britain
each took a silver medal Tor SECOND
fn the iavelin throwing, $50 yaro cy
respectively, while Norway, germany
and Sweden took the bronze medals IN
the same events.
NO CHANCE TO BEAT LEMMING
In the iavelin throwing contest
there were 20 entries, but following the
example of half a dozen Amerlsans
who had put down their names lot TINS
event the majority withdrew Wheh
they realized that they had no chances
of beating Lemming and other cracks
at this form Of sport.
While the throwing was going on
the bicycle track was taken by 'the
competitors in the 100 kllometer Olgy
Gle race, which brought out Dig
field. Cameron. the American repre-
sentative. was entered, but he decided
not TO start. reserving himself for
the shorter races. This contest re-
solved itself into a procession, which
lasted all morning Hansen OF Swe-
den was first in this heat, and Lutz of
France second. six others qualifying
for the finals, which will be run OF
Saturday.
The closest finish of the day was in
the first heat Of the semifnals of the
400 meter swimming event, o. Scheff OF
Austria winning by the smallest frac-
ton from II. Taylor of England. The
second heat Of the semifnals also
was a splendid contest, Beaurepaire
Of Australia having all he could do TO
keen ahead Of Foster of England. These
four, Scheff. Taylor. Beaurepaire and
Foster. qualified for the final, which
will be one of the big events OF to-
morrow. From Scheff's time in to-
DAYS heat, minutes 40 5-5 seconds,
which was 3 2-5 seconds faster than
that made in the second heat, it looks
as though Austria may capture gold
medal
FANCY DIVING EVENTS
Another event in the tank which
attracted much attention was the
fancy diving, the third and fourth
heats Of which were decided. Behrens
of Germany won the third heat, with
S2-5 points; Errington of England, and
Metzell of Finland tied for second.
with 70.S3 points. Potts of England
captured the fourth heat, his score
being So. while NicOlai of Germany
was second, with 65.1.
The tank was occupied for another
hour by the contestants in the 200
meters breast stroke swim. seven heats
being decided. The following men
qualified for the final. which will swim
on Saturday: Holman of England,
Person of Sweden, Seidel of Germany,
Toldy Of Hungary. Robinson of Eng
land. Fabinyi of Hungary and Courbet
OF Belgium.
A. NJ Goessling of the Missouri ath-
letic club. the only American entered,
took third place in the second heat
and therefore did not bualify
The five mile run, which is also down
for Saturday. should prove a great
race. The eliminating trials have left
the following TO fight it out for the
championship; Svanberg and Land
ouist Of Sweden, Hefferen of South
Africa, Noight, Murphy, Robertson and
owen Of England, Bellars and Carr
Of the United States. and Meadows
Fitzgerald and Galbraith of Canada.
It was learned tonight that Eisele,
who made such a plucky fight for
America in the team race lost the
nail off one of his toes yesterday and
was suffering greatly when he went to
the scratch today; but he never
ninched, and not until he reached his
dressing room after the contest did he
complain Of the pain.
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