Evening journal., 1912-07-11
AMERICANS
AFTER HONORS
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
STOCKHOLM, July lit was a
stolid company of athletes that en-
tered the stadium from the steamer
Finland today The cock-sureness
which has marked the Americans at
all times since their arrival here was
missing had been replaced with a de-
termination that is certain to have
its result in future contests. The
loss of the 5000 and 1900 metre
races, the second of which at least
had already been chalked to the
Americans, was a bitter disappoint-
ment and the trainers and handlers
did not omit direct language from
their criticism.
No attempt was made to rob Jack
son of the honors due him for his
victory. but it was pointed out that
if the Americans had used judgment
in the racing of the earlier races,
either Jones or Kiviat must have run.
AS a result of the hitter criticism,
better work was shown by the Amer
leans right from the jump. In the
110-metre hurdles preliminary every
American entered won his heat and
George A Chisholm, of the Boston
! ftLultlll AnoDIldilbus WHO WdS uOl
thought good enough to be sent as
member of the team, but was carried
on the supplemental list whose ex-
penses are being betrayed by private
funds, finished within three-tenths of
a second Of the Olympic record for
the distance. His time was Is $40.
the best of the day.
The other Americans to win their
heats were John J. Eller il. OF the
! Irish-American A. c.; Martin w.
Hawkins, Multonomah A. c., Port
! land, Oregon. Vaughn .. Blanchard
Boston A. C.; Edwin NJ. Pritchard.
/ Irish-American A. c.. John P Mich
/ olson. University of Missouri; Fred
W. Kelly, Seattle A. A; John R.
Case, University of Illinois; James /.
1 Wendell. Wesleyan University.
The weather to-day was much cool
er than at any previous time and this
change proved beneficial to the ath-
letes. II was admitted by the man
agement to-day that the Olympic
will be far from a financial success.
/ The foreign attendance that had been
expected, has failed to materialize and
the great stadium has never been
more than half filled since the OPEN
/ ing day.
The 10.0OO-metre walk was, as ex-
pected. comparatively easy for the
great Canadian, Goulding. who simply
/ carried the entire field off its feet.
/ From the start he set out to win and
TO hang up a new worlds record. The
result was never in doubt He won
in 46.2s 2-5, which was four seconds
below the previous Olympic time for
the distance.
Kaiser. the only American who
qualified for the final essayed to fol
u low Golding's pace with the result
that he fell prostrated on the track
in the tenth lap. There were ter
starters but al the finish only foul
men we're still in the walking. Webb
Of ENGLAND. finished second; Alti
name of Italy. third and Rasmus
sen, of Denmark, fourth. The wall
was one of the best of the meet t
date and stirred the small crowd (.
wild enthusiasm.
John P. Nicholson, of the University
of Missouri. won his heat in the semi
final 110-metre hurdles in Is 2-5 sec
onds and John R. Case, of the Uni
versity of Illinois, won his heat II
Is $40
Martin W. HAWKINS, of Portland
Oregon, won his heat very easily il
Is 7-10 seconds.
James Wendell. of the N. I. A. c.
was not extended to win his heat II
the semi-fnals of the 110-metre
hurdles. His time was 10 1-2 sec
onds. Fred w. Kelley, of Seattle
also won his heat, his time being
l15 $40 seconds.
! The American entrants for the
Marathon, which will be run mex
Sunday, stopped active training todal
and will take only nominal exercise
until the time for the start of th'
big race arrives. The chances o
the Americans are declared by thu
experts to be very poor and the Brit
ish sharps assert that none of then
will show in the first twelve home
However. none of these same experts
gave Johnny Hayes a chance in th'
London Marathon, which he won, 81
the Americans are not worrying.
According to the experts, Corkery
of Canada, and Wide of Sweden, seen
to have the best chance TO win the