The evening world., 1912-07-17
RIDING AND ROWING
EVENTS IN OLYMPIC
ON; YANKEES LEAVE.
Victorious American Track and
Field Team Departs From
Stockholm.
ARMY RIDERS 'BEATEN.l
Better Horses and Not Horse
manship Responsible for
u. S. Defeat.
ARMY RIDERS BEATEN.

STOCKHOLM. Sweden. July 1.-THE
NTH and last event In the military rid
ing competition at the olympic games
saw the United States team retrograds
from second TO third place. Four teams
competed. sweden. Germany and the
United states each represented by four
men, and France by three. The English
and Danish riders abandoned the COM
petition.
The military horse-riding competition
included a distance ride OF about thirty
four miles. q cross-country ride OF about
three miles. an Individual steeplechass
ride, prize jumping and prize riding.
The Swedish team finished first with
1906 points: Germany eccond with lS.ts
points. and the United States third.
iE.1 points.
Stockholm beat Chrisiania BY tive
lengths.
Denmark beat dothenburs By . length
and . half
Norway beat France by five lengths
The style and appearance of the horses
ridden by the officers counted largely In
this event. The foreign of'icsrs had
animals which were far more costly
than those Of the Americans, some OF
whose mounts are merely picked cavalry
horses. and the horses. rather than
horsemanship. turned the scale.
Col. Frederick 8. roitz. who 10 In
charge Of the American army ofncsrs
here, IN confident they are - good rid
srs ~ those Of any army. and most OF
the spectators of the competition agree
With him.
The individual scores IN this compsti-
tion. after the completion Of the NTH
event to-day. were: Nordlander.
Sweden. frst. with ESQ points: Rockow.
Germany. second. with <s.0 points;
Corion. France. third. with as points.
Then come two Swedish Officers and one
German with fractions over - points,
and these are followed by First Lieut..
Ben Lear. Fifteenth Cavalry. who Is
placed seventh. with S.si points: First
Lieut.. John c. Montgomery. Seventh
Cavalry. ninth. with ass points: Capt
Guy v. Henry. Thirteenth Cavalry.
eleventh. with asa points; and First
Lieut.. e. Y. Graham. Fifteenth Cavalry.
thirteenth. with $50 points.
ROWING COMPETITION OF "
NATIONS ON TO-DAY.
The olympic rowing competitions
bsgsn to-day. Seventeen nations are
L.
mile and q quarter long. right
through the middle Of Stockholm. Al
one side of II In the strandvagen. tho
ctty's principal society promenade.
whence thousands are watching the
contests.
In the eiGhts. Australia, Canada.
France. Italy and Norway each have
. crew entered and Germany. England.
Hungary and Sweden two apiece. Bel
GUM. Bohemia. Canada. Finland. Eng
land and Holland each have . crew en-
tered In the competitions for four-oared
outriggers and Australia. Austria, Dem
mark. France. Germany. Italy. Norway
and Sweden two each. The Britisheri
are dissatisfied at having to have cox
swains In the boats entered In this con-
test but the Swedss insisted on Il and
had their way. because the rules entitis
them to Il.
The contest for fnrigged fours are
attracting little interest except among
the Norwegian. who have . crew en-
tered. and the French. swsdss and
Danes. who have two each.
The ''chalisnss cup" for the eishts
which 10 not . cup at all but . stat,
ustts OF Palias Athsne. presented By
Count Brunette d'Usseaux. 10 held a
present by the Leandsr Club Of Eng
lad. tho winners at the last games
Lsander 10 again competing.
AVE RlcAN OLYMPIC TEAM
SAILS FOR HOME.
The race for eight-osred outrage,
shells with scoxswain absorbed most o
the attention Of the spectators. Tn
heats resulted a. follows:
Germany beat France by . length an
. half. Time. 9 minutes u seconds. Ger
many led throughout
Australia beat Sweden easily. Time
8 minutes 81 seconds. The race wa
practically a procession.
Berlin r. C. beat Hungary by .,
lengths. Time. . minutes % seconds.
New College. oxford. beat Norway b
length and . quarter. Time. minute
t2h seconds.
Leander Cub beat Canada BY
of Q length.
Americas successful Olympic truc
and heh team saiied for home to-da
aboard the Finland. They stop q
Dover before setting out for New Yorl
There will BE- many faces missin
when the boat reaches Manhattan. e
large number Of the boys have d,
rded 10 stay behind and take adval
tsss Of the opportunity to see II
world" Some have accepted invitation
10 participate In various meets to /
held throughout Europe.
The men broke training last nigh
There was . big banquet on board Il
Finland. and the men ate. drank an
knocked to their hearts content Ever,
body was In jolly mood. and towaI
the wee small hours q the mornir
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