Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-11
AMERICAN FLAGS
ON THREE POLES
Athletes from United States Take ALI
Three Places in Weight Put
at Stockholm.
M'DONALD LOWERS MARK
Irish. h.Ameri,an Athlete Scores Fifty
Feet Four Inches.
COE COLLEGE BOY QUALITIES
Clement P. Wilson is Second in His
Heat in 200-Meter Race.
ANDERSON WINS 1,5OO METERS
CoE COLLEGE BOY QUALITIES
ANDERSON WINS 1900 METERS
This Contest In Most Thrilling of
Olympic Contests to Date
Americans Come In SEQ.
0nd and Third.

STOCKHOLM, July M.-The program \
for the fifth day OF the athletic section
OF the Olympic games was full Of inter-
esting events. 1t Included the trial heats
In the 300 meters flat race. the final Of |
the 5000 meters flat race, semi-finals Of /
the 1900 meters flat race. the pole vault
and the weight putting. In all these
competitions American athletes were en-
gagged and the prospects Of the United
States team Of adding to its list OF VIC !,
tories were very favorable at the opening |
of the sports this morning.
A new Olympic record was created tor ,
day by P. J. Mcdonald OF the Irish !
American Athletic club. with his, put Of i,
Is meters 81 centimeters "a shade over /
80 feet 4 inches) In the final of the weight !.
putting. The old Olympic record of 4s /
feet Inches. made by Ralph Rose In
1904, also was exceeded by Ralph Rose !
himself. who today put the weight IS ,
meters 2s centimeters "a fraction over
80 feet).
There was one real race In the 900 !
meters trials between G. H. Patching. !
South Africa, and Clement P. Wilson,
Coe college The Iowa boy finished Sec
ond. In another heat Donald F. Lppin-
colt. University Of Pennsylvania, had i
to run his best to win. p. G. Gerhardt, !
Olympic Athletic association. San Fran /
cisco: w. H. A. darcy and Z. Kern Of I
Germany, gave fine exhibition In the I
tenth heat.
Andersen Wins Thrilling Race.
/ The 1900 meters race furnished one Of
the greatest thrills of the meeting. A /,
harder struggle has seldom been seen on
the cinder path In order to get to the
front jackson. who was fifth from the
pole" had to run round four men on
the last lap which he did at the final
turn. Until the leaders were within ten
yards of the tape the event might have
belonged either to; Jackson or kiviat. but
the Oxford man fairly leaped ahead and
carried Off the hickory.
h ,Arnaud, the Frenchman, and the three
Ewesies. j Sander, E. Bjorn and e. Wide,
made the runihgsin the first lap, e. Won
outran hts powers and was left behind on
the home stretch At the beginning OF
the last lap the order was John Paul
Jones. Kiviat Sheppard. Taber and jack
ton. The hopes Of the Americans rose
when they saw that jackson. who Ill
feared, was eight feet behind the first
man, but In the first stretch Of the Jap
his squirt to the finish and carried OF
the victory.
jackson was more exhausted when he
tainted after the race than any compet-
itor has been at this meeting. Doctors
worked over him for an hour before he
gained strength enough to stand.
kiviat ran up to the Englishman after
the race and stretched out his hand to
shake but Jackson waved him off. Many
Of the spectators, thought that the re-
fusal was caused by bad feeling, but ths
victor sent message to the American
team afterward saying that he did not
realize. what he was doing because he was
tired out and that he would call on the
Americans to explain the matter to them
later. Mathew J. Halpin, the American
team manager, said when, he was told
this:
Its up to our boys to call on him.
Jackson is an exceedingly pale youth
OF five feet and eleven inches and looks
far more like scholar than an athlete
His victory is historic In the annals of
athletic sports as one of the greatest fea-
lures ever seen on the running track
As soon as he came to he asked friend
to telegraph his success to his mother
In the pole vault trials this afternoon
the following Americans qualified at S65
centimeters Twelve feeD for the finals
tomorrow:
Frank T. Nelson, Yale university;
Frank d. Murphy, University of Illinois;
Harry s. Babcock. Columbia university;
Mark s. Wright, Dartmouth G. B.
Dukes, New York Athletic club; S. Fl.
Belah, Multnomah Athletic club, Port
land. Frank J. Coyle. University of Chi
cago. and w. H. Fritz, Cornell univer-
sity
Summaries.
200 meters. flat race, first heat: Charles
D. Reidpath, Syracuse university first;
G. ]. B. Rolot. France, second. Time.
22% seconds.
Second heat: Ralph c. Craig. Detroit
Young Mems Christian association. first;