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American Contestants at
Olympic Games Also Cap
ture Broad Jump and 9
Qualify for 400 Meters.
TWO RECORDS FALL
IN TODAY'S EVENTS

400 Meters and Gutterson
Passes Old Distance in
Jump; Lead Increased.
Stockholm, July 12.-Yankee ath-
letes continued harvesting their crop
Of laurels at the Olympic games today.
All three places in the final Of the
ITO meters race were won by Ameri-
cans, a University of Vermont man
captured the broad Jump and nine
wearers of the starry shield qualified
for the semi-finals in the 400 meters
race
Incidentally, Americans broke two
records-one Of them twice. In the 400
meters race, James Meridith, the
Mercersburg school boy, paced by the
veteran Melvin Sheppard. wore down
the old Olympic mark to 48 seconds a
few minutes after Charles Reidpath of
Syracuse university had broken the
same record by running the same dis
tance in 48 ITO seconds.
In the running broad jump Albert L.
Gutterson, the Vermont leaper, with
a jump of meters 60 centimeters GA
feet II inches and fraction) beat the
previous Olympic record of "a feet 613
inches. g
The discus event was something of
disappointment for the American
team. who meta powerful opponent in
the Finn, A. H. faipale, but they made
him break a worlds record with a
throw of 148, feet 1k inches to get
first place. Two Of the United States
team, H. L. Byrd and James Duncan,
were second and third respectively.
Early this morning large group OF
big men, those from the northern ma
tions forming the majority, gathered
for the finishing rounds Of discus
throwing, best hand. Shortly after
wards the ninety runners entered for
the 400 meters flat race turned out to
compete in the fifteen heats of that
event, the semi-final heats Of which
we're also set for decision today. The
judges decided not to have the men
In 1908. The 5000 meters team race
also run in heats, the final Of the 10
meters hurdle race, the running long
Jump and the 1000 meters cross coun-
try run starting and finishing in the
stadium, which Is the concluding event
OF the modern pentathlon, gave great
variety to the program.
Angry at Disqualification.
Intense feeling was aroused by the
disqualification of Donald B. Young Of
the Boston A. A., in the semi-finals of
the 400 meters flat race for inter-
ference with Braun. 1t is understood
that the American committee Is
likely to make protest and some Of
the English sportsmen here probably
will support it, The Young episode Is
almost a duplication Of that which oc-
Cured in London during the last
Olympic games when Carpenter, the
American sprinter, was disqualified In
the 440 yards race.
To add to the unpleasantness Of the
day for the Americans the sailors OF
the Finland struck and refused to man
the launches to and from the shore.
The correspondent here Of a Lon
don newspaper in his dispatches ac-
cuses the American runners Of unfair
work against Hans Braun the German
athlete, in the final Of the 500 meters
flat race. He described them as pick
eting" Braun. The Germans, on the
contrary, say that the race was per-
fectly fair and Braun himself made no
protest.
Worlds Record In Discus Throw.
The morning started with fine per-
formance by the Finn, A. r. Traipale,
in the discus throwing best hand,
final. He beat with his throw of As
meters 21 centimeters GAS feet IL
inches) not only the Olympic record Of
1876 feet " inches made by the Ameri-
can. Sheridan, in Athens, in 1905, but
also the worlds record of 145 feet 91sI
inches established by James H. Dun
cSn at Celtic Park, New York on June
2B this year. r. L. Byrd's throw Of AZ
meters % centimeters G38 feet Sss
inches) also exceeded the standing
Olympic record.
Nine Americans In 400 Meters.
The first tryouts for the 400 meters
flat race were largely formalities. In
several Of the heats there were only
two entries and what races there
we're usually occurred between the
second and third man. The failure of
G.. H. L. Anderson, England, to gain
a place in the first heat was a great
to the Englishmen.
The first and second In each trial
heat qualified for the semtfinals, run
later in the day. Americans who won
places In the semi-ffnals were:
James M. Rosenberger, l. A A. c.;
Melvin Sheppard, I. A. A. c.; James
E. Meredith, Mercersburg academy;
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