The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-19
GREAT THR0NG FILLS STADIUM Sports Take Place in the Rain. BETTER DAY FOR AMERICANS Queun Alexandra Views Contests
 From Box. Martin Sheridan Breaks All Records
 At Throwing of Discus--Unifea Kingdom 0utciassed All others Tn Scoring.

London. July is--If every day on which the Olympic games were held were only Saturday. there would be some chance cf their proving a sue cess from the point of view of attend ancs.
 Londoners showed today that given the opportunity, they will support good sport no matter what the weather con- ditions are. although every person who journeyed to the Stadium this after noon might have made the excuse that it was too wet to go anywhere.
 The great grandstands at either end of the Stadium, the admission to which is fixed at a shilling. were completely
 illed with a crowd similar to that which attends football matches on half holidays. The covered stands where the seats are reserved also held much larger number of people than on any other previous day, while the royal box. too, was occupied, by large par ty, including the Queen, who took a keen interest In the Danish athletes.
 Princess Victoria. and the Grown Prince of Sweden, who, by the way, have been present every day since the opening, and the children of the Prince of Wales, were interested followers or the sports.
 The weather was no respeeter or psr, &u1Gs IL was CtOuAS aA$@ morning during the progress of me archery and fencing contests but to- wards noon the sky cleared, and is looked as though the afternoon would be fine Instead. the rain came dowp in torrents with but few intervals. and the officials repeatedly had to stop the sports going on in the arena.
 CycIers and Runners ip Rain.
 The cyclists and runners were the zzyAfftn ffi AV all received, even the fancy divers be- ing forced to, call halt In their con. test for half an hour as the Judges Were unable to do their work properly.
 So far as the Americans were con cerned, the day passed on without any unpleasant incident, such as that con nected wsth the tug of war yesterday while the Canadians had one of theil nrtevances rectihed, the otiickais of the cyclists union at the last moment al. lowing Young, one of the Canadian riders. to start tn the 10o kilometrei race for which they declared yesterday tha he aid not qualify It-wae proved beyond dispute that this disqualifca- ton was the result of a mistake by an oficiai who placed the Canadian one lap behiAd where he belonged.
 Frances protest, although in the cycling event, was added to by anoth- the winner of. the 5000 metres event. sehilIes claimed a foul. but the protest was not allowed.
 Tn the matter of scoring the United Kingdom completely cutciaHesd the other countries. her athletes adding seven wins Co their already good score These included the Archery contests. the 3,200 metres steeplechase; the 20o metres breast stroke swimming. the $, 900 metres cycling. the 100 kiiometreS cycling, the tug of war, and the fvs miles flat race.
 The only two other events decided the discus throwing. Greek style, and the fancy diving--went to America and Germany respectively, but America ae- compiished two things today of which 1 her supporters are extremely proud | in the first place, Martin ]. Sheridan l of the Irish American Athletic Cut | broke all previous records with tho I dlscus, at this style of throwing, mak. l ing a distance of l2S feet eight inches while M. F. Horr, of the same club waS second. also with record breaking throw of i22 feet live and one-hali 1 inches.
 The other accomplishment of which all the athletes are talking. was the success of J. L. Eiseie, of the New York Athletic Club, in getting third place in the 3,200 metres steeplechase. America never had any idea Of SCOT | ing 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 distance runs. and | in each race he had to fight against odds. being handicapped on each oc- casion by having several Englishmen pitted against him. Further, he had suffered greatly with an injured foot. | Just a little more stamina and a little more luck and Eisele would have cap tured some of the distance events for America. As it was, he ran splendid and plucky race.
 There were four of the United King dom team. Russell. Robertson. Hollo- way and Sewell. in this event, in ad- dition to Eisele and the Galbreath, the | last named, representing Canada. The Englishmen took turns in trying tt wear down the two others. and sue ceeded in doing so with Galbriath, bu | E,isele held on despite a nasty fall a 1 the water jump in the first lap, anC managed to annex third place. well up During this race. the final of the 20 metres breast stroke swim was pulle | off, and again the United Kingdom tri