Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-09
Captures First, Second and Third
Places-Slow Progress in
the Wrestling.
Record of Points Scored.

STOCKHOLM. Sweden, July a.-Ths
United States led by five points in all
the events contested at the Olympic
games. including swimming. athletics,
shooting and all other kinds of sport up
to this morning. according to the list
compiled by the officials here.
Inc Fourth day of the athletic section
OF the games began today in dull wealth
er, and with rain in prospect Several
thousand enthusiasts assembled for tho
principal event of the morning. which
was the decision OF the first three trial
heats of the 5.OOO-meters flat race
Americans were well represented on
the spectators benches on the stadium
and had the satisfac elton of seeing two or
their men run away with two first places.
George V. Bonhag. Of the Irish-Ameri-
can A. C., gave A fine exhibition in the
first heat. Louis Scott. of the South
Paterson Y. NJ. c. A, took the second
heat by hard work. Garnet NJ. Wickof-
University OF Ohio. was the only repre-
sentative of the United States In the third
heat and he was unable to finish.
Finland a Winner.
Finland took first, second and third
| ploces in the final of the javelin throwing
contest. either hand.
England was first and Sweden second
, In the final Of the 4OO-meter relay race.
Germany was disqualified.
Wrestling proceeded simultaneously
| with the running. but slow headway was
made with that partof the program.
Bonhag ran the first heat of the 5000
| meters fiat race in his own way. He
easily led the field throughout, except for
I n hri af MI aYf In, th0 Ia .Sf
when g. N. Hill. the Australian, went
| ahead. Bonhag was fifteen yards ahead
OF Decoteau. the Canadian. with Hibbins
OF England. another fifteen yards behind.
| and tho two other starterss1O0 yards back
| when they entered the last lap. The Can
adian then drew up and finished only
| twenty feet behind the American. with
the Englishman twenty yards behind and
| The Swede. K. Lundstrom. gave up u
| quarter of q mile from the end.
The result OF the second heat virtually
duplicated that of the first. The repre-
sentativeS of the United States made the
pace Tor two-thirds Of the race. the two
English runners. f. w. Hutson and 4.
| H. Ruffell. following close on the heels
OF Louis Scott. South Paterson Y. NJ.
4. A. and kuward 4. Fitzgerald, New
York A. G. Joseph Keeper, the Canadian.
and the two Swedes. b. Modig and Nj.
Person, were only a short distance
away.
Fight in Third Mile.
| The real fight came early in the third
mile, when Ruffell took the lead for a
few yards, but then dropped by the way.
Fitzgerald came up to the front, but
soon fell back, and Scott reached the
tape with an easy lead of four yards
| from Keeper. who was two feet ahead of
Hutson. Person finished a lap behind,
hfrf hic rin yIyifh
| ing the first mile.
| The United States showed very poorly
in the third heat Garnet NJ Wickof
University of Ohio, who started. going
lame and withdrawing before he had
covered two-thrds of the distance. The
Englishmen, f. Glover and {. II. A. Por-
ter. led most OF the way. keeping together
all the time. NJ. karlsson, Sweden. chal-
lenged them in the last 1000 yards.
Coming to the front with rush. he then
steadily gained and finished 200 yards
| ahead of Glover, while Porter was
other 100 yards behind. The Finnish rep
runner were outdistanced. The Swedish
victory was greatly applauded.
Swedes Get a Heat.
The trial heats of the 800 meters fat
race furnished nothing extremely surprs-
ing. except the double victory of the
Swedes In the fifth heat. There were
seven heats. and the two leaders in each
are to run in the final tomorrow, when a
great race is expected, which none of to-
days performances makes the Americans
fear unless IL is that of A. n. s. Jackson
OF oxford University. a pale. greyhound
style OF youth, whose running was easy
and confident.
The Americans displayed better Judg-
ment in this race than in some of the
preceding events. John Panl Jones.
Oscar F. Hedlund and Walter Me
Clure were content to take second
places rather than strain themselves
by hard races for first places. Three
Swedes-E. Bjorn, E. Wide and j.
Zander-may prove formidable oppo-
nents tomorrow.
After the first heat in this race A.
Hare of Great Britain declared that
Melvin w. Sheppard had spiked him.
pushing him onto the grass while
rounding the last turn. Hare was anx-
ious to make a protest. but the mana
gers OF the English team declined. The
English and Americans appear de-
sirous Of avoiding any clashes and are
attempting to heal the breach that oc-
CURED in 1908.
Discuss Disqualification.
Yesterdays decision disQuahfying the
United States relay team in tho 4O0-meter
race caused considerable eYumblfng how