The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-22
SHEPPARD'S RECORD
Irish A. c, Star Makes New Mark in 800-M Metre Event
 at 0lympios.
PORTER WINS HIGH JUMP
Another American Gets Gold Medal by Clearing Bar nt Over Six Feet
 and Breaking Record.

! l'''t 'i AllN AllNll *NIlNllNdl Alllltllt club who took the measure of Eng lands best men in the l,5O0 metre race, just week ago, added another victory to his long list today when he finished far in the lead in tho 500 metre event. establishing now olympic record of l:j2 f-6 for the distance and continuing on to the half mile which he ran in l;5i, within three-hfths of a second of c. II. kilpatrlcks worlds record made in New York in 1895.
 Another gold medal went to America when Harry r. Porter. of the Irish American Athletic club, captured tho high jump by clearing the bar at feet 2 inches and beating tho Olympic rec ord made by ]. K. Baxter in Paris in 1900. 6 feet i-5 inches. After assur- Ing himself that he was the winner, he went after the worlds record The bar was placed at feet S-i inches, just one-eghth of an inch higher than the record. which was made by M. r. sweeney in New York in 1895 but 1t was just shad too much for him.
 Better weather. a much larger at tendance and exciting finishes made today's Olympic sports at the stadium far and away more interesting than any that have preceded them.
 As was expected it was largely America's day, for besides winning the only two events finally decided, the American sprlnters won the great ma iorty of the heats in the other events. While not so spectacular as the races, the running high jump was tho most keenly contested event of the day. It started in the morning and not until after o'clock was Porter proclaimed the winner, the stars and Stripes be- Ing run up to tho masthead for the sec- ond time In the day.
 In the first section of thIs event, II, A. Gldncy, Boston A, A., was defeated by Monson, of Norway. and Leader, of England, but after the other sections had concluded protest was entered on the ground that the spot where the other sections contested was more fa- vorable to the jumpers than that of the first section,
 The protest was allowed and Gidney in the second attempt did feet inch, thus qualifying for the final There, however. he soon found more than his match In Leahy, the Irish champion, Porter. Somody. of Hungary, and sev- eral others.
 In his try for tho worlds record Porter made three attempts but with out success He will go to Ireland
 
 Leahy, and 1t Is possible that he will be able to establish new record. His jumping to-day appeared marvel ous to the experts and spectators, for II not until he went after the record did he remove his sweater and he ap- preached the poles without the usual strained appearance. l.eahy, Somody I and Andre, of France, tied for second I place, each having topped the bar at feet ? inches, and although they \ tried it q quarter of an inch higher \ none of them could accomplish it II was decided to rive each a silver l medal and award the points for sec N ond and third places equally among K the three countries T, Moilit, of the N University of Chicago, did feet | Inch, which, as he has been i'll since M coming to England, was @ splendid VI performance.
 Il Sheppard won a great victory fol Pl America in the S00-mctre flat race p He proved himself entirely too fas N for Just the English champion, whC IN was absolutely done up by the tre In mendous pace.
 MI The two Englshmcn, Just and Fair MI bairn- Crawford, who qualified MI thought they could get pace which MI would tire out Sheppard, but it seem II ed to be exactly what he wanted. Th' HI American let Fairbarin- Crawford SC 'u tho speed as high as he lil ad, and kep
 right at the Itglishman's heels. Jus - followed close At hand, but the plal miscarried, for the latter, who expec,
 ed to come mp in the stretch and pas
 Sheppard. had no reserve left and wa
 not only beaten by the American, bu
 also by Tunghi of Italy, and Braun O
 Germany
 The Americans suffered two dlsap
 pontments in the heats of the 20
 metre flat race, Lawson Robertson
 Irish-Amerlcan Athletic club bein
 defeated by Roche, the Irish cham
 pion. and w. w. May, University c Illinois being compelled to take tn
 dust of the fleet Canadian, Kerr. Con
 sidering, however, that lhe Amer1
 cans entered seven of the fifteen heat
 and took five of them, there Is nc
 much cause for complaint.
 I. l.. 1r n
 they took seven out of nine in whic
 they started. The two heass in whic
 they lost in this event were won b
 Nalswelle, who is considered the be'
 man in England at the distance an
 who did the heat to-day In 49 g.
 seconds, and Montague, the eX-cham V pion of England, who beat Paul
 Pilgrim of the New York A. C., i
 50 1-5 seconds,
 J, R. Taylor Irish American Athleti - club, the colored champion of the Uni
 yersity of Pennsylvania, made his frs
 appearance in this event and the re
 nlarkable ease with which he runs wa
 an eyc-opencr to the English Critics
 Taylor got a warm reception and Wo
 his heat easily. Rhyl, of Cambridge
 who had a walkover in his heat has
 somewhat similar stride as Taylor, bu Iy without the strength
 The 100 metres sprint brought out tn " best. aggregation of sprinters yet see in on the track and 1t was noticeable tha .. the only countries represented wer 9' America, the United Kingdom, an ti- Canada and South Africa Tho Amer ,,o jeans, May and Stevens, lost thei
 heat to Walker of south Africa, an n- Kerr of Canada, just beat out sherma or of Dartmouth university, but the othe
 two heats were gathered in for Amer six ca by Rector and Robertson Ker
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