The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-07-19
shsridan's throw /. a new olympic

inches. shsridan's throw Is q new Olympic
record.
Five Mile Run-Final-woh by Z. r. voisht,
United Kingdom; A. j. Robertson. United
Kingdom. second; John Svanberg. Sweden.
third Time. IS minutes II i-5 seconds.
voight's time Is q new olympic record
$500 Meters ts.497.e yards) Steeplechaso-
Won by A. Russell, Undted Kingdom; A. 4.
Robertson, United Kingdom. second; John
L. Eisele. New York A. g.. third. Time. 10
minute ~ 4-6 seconds.
United K~ingdom; Liverpool Police. United
Kingdom. second: Metropolitan Police. United
Kingdom. third.
Fancy Diving-Won by A, Turner. Germany.
with IS. points; X. Behrens. Germany. second.
with SIS points; George W. Gaidzik. Chicago
A. A.. United States. third. with sos points.
5000 Meters Is. tes yards) Cyoling-won By
Jones. United Kingdom; Schilles. France.
second; Auffray. France. third. Time. 9
minutes SO les seconds.
100 Kilometers (o2 miles) C~yclinR-Final-
Won by Bartlett. United Kingdom; Codenny.
United Kingdom. second; Lapize. France,
third. Time, 2 hours II minutes ts SIS sec
onds
200 Meters t2is.e yards, Swimming. Breast
Stroke-Final-Won by f.. Holman, United
Kingdom; W. W. Robinson. United Kingdom.
second. L. hanson, sweden, tnlTu. limo, D
minutes 0 SIS seconds.
Archery. Ladies-Final-won by Miss
Newell. United Kingdom; Miss Dodd. United
Kingdom. second; Miss Hillowe. United King
dom, third.
Archery; Observation-Disclosures by bod.
United Kingdom; Brooks-King. United King
dom. second: J. r. Richardson, United States.
third. withss total Of ITO.
The Americans did well In the stadium
yesterday, but good a. their efforts were
the Britons were equally effective In rolling
up points, and the day and the weeks
work ended with the Britishers having a
comfortable lead anyway, the programme
are included in the tally the Saxons now
have q lead almost impossible to oope with,
and IL anybody wants to figure the cham
pionship that way England wins In Q walk.
On this basis the SCORES are: United King
France, ID; Sweden, 10; Australia, 4; Nor.
way. 4; Greece and Denmark, 3 each. and
Finland, Austria and Canada, / each. To
count only the track and field events the
score Ii: United Kingdom. 81; United States.
g; Sweden; 10; Norway, 1; Greece, 8; France n;
each. .
In the track and field events the United
Kingdom has made six ftrsts. while the
United States is close up with five.
John L. Eisele was to the fore again with
another stirring tussle In the steepleohase.
a bad fall in the early part Of the race.
Eisele beat some men Of repute at the CROSS
country game in the old country. He
proved himself the best distance man On
the American team.
No word has yet reached here as to where
Bellars Of the New York A. G.. was when
Voight, the Englishman. hit the worsted
in the five miles final. To judge by the
time. and II the reports are to be believed
about the state Of the track, the pace was
strongly fancied for first place. and this
was on account Of his race against Dun
can last year, when he came we'll inside
rs minutes. Voight's time beat the Olym-
pic record Of 20 minutes 20 is seconds.
made by Lieut.. Hawtrey. an Irishman on
Martin Sheridan had the supreme sat
isfaction of turning the tables on Jaeryinen.
the Big Finn. at the Greek style Of throw
ing the discus. Two years ago at Athens
ine sahn an J0o ouit ten a sousbbJe wa was ,e Taised
over the result. Sheridan was disquah-
fed, as the Greek judge said he did not
raise his hand high enough behind his
back and that his method Of throwing was
incorrect. Then Sheridan said his style
was as correct as the Fnlander's and Geor-
gantas. the Greek, asserted that only him.
SELF threw correctly. At the conclusion
Of the games G~eorgantas refused to come
before the King for his second prize and
for the insult to royalty he suffered os-
tracism for awhile.
But whatever style was allowed at Lon
don the rules read differently from those
In vogue at Athens. which said that a mans
arm should be raised higher than his head
and travel like a pendulum BY, the side
nothing like this In the English rules. and
Of course Sheridan was able to take ad-
vantage Of it.
In the final Of the fancy diving George
W. Gardzik Of the Chicago A. A. was seen
at his worst. In the trials and semi-final
his scores were from 5 to 9 points better
than his final score. No cause Is given
for the Chicago mans falling OF.
POINT sooRI.