Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-12
RALPH CRAIG IN AT THE FINISH
Detroit Athlete First in 200-Meter
Flat Race.
UNCLE SANS BOYS DO HURDLES
Have Things All Their Own Way
in the Leaping.
NO INCENTIVE TO MAKE SPEED
Nine Competitors start In 10000
Meter walk. but Keiser from New
York Finds Pace Fast and
Drops Out.

STOCKHOLM. July 1.-THE program OF
the sixth day of the athletic section OF
the Olympic games presented some fea~
lures of great interest. particularly the
preliminary and semi final heat of the
llo meters hurdle race, the final Of the
200 meters flat race the final Of the 10000
meters walking race, In which George
Goulding of Canada won a deserved VIC
tory, the final Of the pole vault. the final
Of the weight putting, right and LETT
hand, the 400 meters swimming race.
free STYLE and the 400 meters swimming
race. breast stroke, as well as water
polo matches.
Ralph Craig Of the Detroit Young Mems
Christian association team won the finals
in the 200 meters flat race. Donald F.
Lippincott Of the University Of Pernsyl-
vania was second.
The United States team had the hurdle
race all It's own way, taking eight firsts
and one second. The majority Of the
heats were not races, because in most
cases there were only two runners. and
as first and second in each heat are en-
titled to compete In the seni-finals, there
was not Incentive to fast running.
All the American competitors secured
places in the semi finals. They were:
James Wendell, New York Athletic club;
John r. Case, University Of Illinois; Fred
w. Ktlley. Seattle Athletic club; John p.
Nicholson. University of Missouri: Edwin
NJ. Pritchard, Irish-American Athletic
club; Vaughn s. Blanchard. Boston Ath-
letic association Martin w. Hawkins,
Multnomah Athletic club; John j. Eller
ir, Irish American Athletic club and
George A. Chisholm, Boston Athletic as
ISOLATION.
Other nations also are represented in
the semil finals, France by three men,
/. Andre, NJ. S. L. Delaby and R. DE
Guanderax, England by II. L. II. Blak-
enri and @. r. Landerson, Sweden by
II. Wieslander Norway BY I. X. Bic,
FINLAND by w. Wiokholm; liansary by
Raroly Solymar, Germany by II. Yon
Bonninghausen, Italy by p, Colbaehini
and Chile by S. T.. Palma 3
Nine competitors started in the final
OF the 10000 meters walk The only rep
resentative OF the United States was +,
Keiser, New York Athletic club. and the
pace proved too fast for him. so he
10 meters hurdle race, semi-finals:
First heat, x. Powell. England. first;
John J. Eller, jr,. Irish American Ath-
letlc club, second; r. r. Bic. Norway,
third. Time. 15M seconds.
1900 meters walk, final: George Could
ing, Ontario, Canada. first; e. J. Webb.
England, second; +. -Altimani, Italy,
third; A. Rasmussen, Denmark, fourth.
Pole vault, final Harry S. Babcock.
Columbia university, first with 3 meters
95 centimeters Frank T. Nelson. Yale
university. and Mark S. Wright, Dart
mouth failed at that jump
-Four Hundred Meters, Swimming, Free
Style. for Men-First heat: Hardwick.
Australia, first; Champion. Australia.
second. Time. 5 minutes, ss seconds.
Second Heat-T. s. Battersby, England,
first Johnson. Norway, second. Time,
6 minutes, Sas seconds.
!, Third Heat-Ritter. Germany, first;
Kenyery, Hungary. second. Time. 9
l
minutes 44% seconds.
Fourth Heat-Lastorres, Hungary,
| first; Taylor, England, second. Time, )
minutes, 46s seconds.
dropped out, after doing two miles.
Gouldlng, who took the lead soon after
| the start. was engaged IN hard race
with E. J. Webb, England, from the
! beginning.
Americans Win Pole Vault.
| The American runners also carried off
the pole vault. Harry s. Babcock, CO.
lun,bia university scoring fine first
with a vault of meters 95 centimeters
/ d2 feet II inches and fraction). This
/ beats the Olympic record made at London
in 1908 by the American jumpers Gilbert
and Cook, who cleared u feet inches on
that occasion.
| The final Of the pole vaulting began
! with eleven competitors; G. B. Dukes
New York Athletic club; Mark s. Wright,
Dartmouth Frank d. Murphy, University
of Illinois; S. H. Bellap, Multnomah Ath,
letic club; Frank j. Coyle, University OF
| Chicago; w. H. Fritz, Cornell university
Frank T. Nelson. Yale university; Harry
S. Babcock, Columbia university; w.