Arizona republican., 1912-07-07
To Sweden Belongs the Credit of Stage Setting and to the United States the Honor of Achieve ment |
HAWAIIAN SWIMMER
 MAKES NEW RECORD
Americans Take the Lead in All Events on the Cinder Path; Delegates From the East Make Good Start But Bad Ending
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHI

STOCKHOLM, July 6.--The glory of the opening of the Olympic games for 1912 should be divided between Swed-
 en and the United States. Sweden gets the lions share for the impress sive stage setting she prepared for the contests at which, with the nat ural beauties of Stockholm parks pal aces. lakes and the ceremonial with
 which the king inaugurated the meet ing, makes it by far the most memor- able international festival ever held. America's share of the honor was
 due to the remarkable fashion in which her brawny young men set to work on the cinder path. They ran away with heat after heat in the first rounds 100 and 500 meters. They
 outdid the expectations of their train
 CTS and completely upset the calcula- tions the public had made. They left their old time British rivals far be- hind.
 With five American sprinters, Rrew. Meyer, Craig, Lippincott, Belote and T. South, to run finals in the 100 meters that may even be written down for the United States. With eight men out of eighteen to compete in the semi-finals of 800 meters, five
 of whom won their respective heats
 in the trials, it would seem that the United States had excellent oppor- tunity to annex that also.
 The preliminary heats, 100 meter swimming competition was begun this ] evening. Duke" Kahanomoku, of
 Hawaii won his heat in the worlds record time of one minute and two and three-fifths seconds. McGoffray 1 of Illinois, Nicholas Nerich of New York, and Kenneth Hussegah of Chi- l cago also qualified as did the British l German. Italian. French. Swedish and
 Australian swimmers. G. w. Gaidzik of Chicago, qualified for the final in the high diving event.
 The smashing of the Olympic record 1 by D. F. Lippncott of the University of Pennsylvania, in the sixteenth heat of the 100 meter race, puts that run
 ner in the hero class. The only cloud in the day was due to an unfortunate accident suffered by a Springfield high school boy who strained a ten don of his leg in the semi-finals for i the 100 meters the first heat of which he won. This may bar him in the | final
 The WOrlQS record with the JdVelln,
 made E. Lemming, Swedish cham l pion, was not expected, but the Ha- waiian swimmer, Duke" Kahana-
 moku covered himself with glory. | slipping through the water in his trial ! heat of 100 meters in free style
 which gave the United States the second worlds record of the meeting. Two dark skinned delegates from
 the orient got an ovation but found themselves outclassed by their Euro
 pean and American brethren. A Turk
 showed early speed in the 800 meter
 race and then faded into the back
 ground. A tall Japanese trailed far
 behind throughout the 100 meters. 1 The Americans were successful in l the fencing contests. All the pro grams being in the Swedish language
 are imposing great difficulties on for
 eign reporters while only the winners
 are announced. leaving the spectators
 to guess the second and third men in ! the contests.