Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-07-09
AMERICANS ARE
LEADING ALL
NATIONS
Athletes From United States
At Stockholm Olympic
Games Had Several Points
Advantage On General
Summary of Events--Bri-
tish Lads Bre ak Training
and Enjoy High Living.
OUR METHODS ARE
LAUDED As BEST

LhUGLU hu ULU |
Hare Asserts Shepard Spiked
Him During Races But Off.
cials Decline to Listen to Comp.
laint and No Charges Are
Made.-Finland Team Taken
All Three Places In JaveIin
Throwing Against Many Com,
petitors.
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Stockholm, July 9.-The United
States led by five points in all the
events contested at the Olympic games
including swimming, athletics, shoot
ing, and all other kinds of snort, III
to this morning, according to the list
compiled by the officials here. The
score reads; United States 50: Sweden
"a; Great Britain Sc: France II: South
Africa II: Germany II. Denmark 10;
Finland s; Norway :; Italy J; Hungary
4 Russia 3; Austria 3: Greece ;; Hol
land / Australia /.
The United States cannot increase
her lead today because in the only
events in which she cCmpetes aud
which concluded with the iavelin
throwing, all three places were wor
by the finish team In the relay race
the Americans were disqualified in the
preliminaries.
Yesterdays decision disqualifyine
the United States relay team in the
400 meter race caused considerable
grumbling Some of the American
officials and spectators assert that bott
the Sweden and British runners il
that race committed the same fOu
but that the Americans alone were
selected for punishment.
The officials of the British team
predict that this meeting viii cause ;
revolution in British athletic methods
British followers of the Olympic game
declare that the team lacks discipline
the University Athletes have broker
their training as they We're unable t,
resist the attractions of Stockholm
The Reverend DeCOurcy Laffan, a for
mer leading athlete, in England, think
the English should send their trainer;
to study American methods.
England's four speedy dash mer
captured the four hundred meter rela!
race, in the sem-fnals in which the!
were beaten yesterday by the Ameri
can runners who We're later Gisquali
fed. Sweden was second and tn
German team was disqualified.
I Finland, in the javelin throw, will
either hand, took all three places.
| The trial heats of the 1900 meter
i fiat race furnished nothing extremel.
surprising except the double victory O
! the Swedes in the fifth heat Their
/ were seven heats and the two leader
in each are to run in the final tomol
row when great race is expected
None of today's performances max
the Americans fear unless it is tha
of A. n. S. Jackson of oxford Univel
sity, a pale greyhound style of you'll
whose running was easy and confident
The Americans displayed bette
judgment in this race than in som
of the preceding events. John Pau
Jones, Oscar F. Hedland, and Waite
( Mcclure, were content to take secOn
places rather than strain themselve
by hard races for first places.
Three Swedes, +. Bjorn, f. Wide
and j. Sander may prove formidabl
opponents tomorrow.
The bicycling race round lake Malal
200 miles held July 7, result: Swedis
team first; British second; America
third.
Individual prizes: Lewis, South Afr
ca, first; Grutt, England, second; Cal
Schultz, Kansas City, representing s.
LOUIS CScnng CluD, tnlfu.
After the first heat in the 1860 mete
event, a. Hare, of Great Britain, d.
clared that Melvin w. Sheppard ha
spiked him, pushing him on the gras
while rounding the last turn. Har
was anxious to make a protest but tn
managers of the English team d'
clined. The English and American
appeared anxious of avoiding clashe
and are attempting to heal the breac
that occurred in 1908.
The fourth day of the athletic Sc
tion of the Olympic games began
dull weather and with rain in pro
pect. Several thousand enthusiast
: assembled for the principal event {
the morning which was the decisio
of the first three trial heats of the 81
meter fiat race.
Wrestling proceeded simultaneous
with the running, but slow headwa
was made with that part of the pr
gram. The list of competitors ruI
) into the hundreds, and in some qua
) tiers it is said that the bouts will n
} be finished until it is time to beg
again at the Olympic games to be he
J in Berlin in 1916
Summaries: 400 meters relay, fina
England first; Sweden second; Gre
I many disqualified.
; Javelin throwing, either hand; Fl
land first, second and third.