The Prescott daily news., 1912-07-11
POLICEMAN SETS
 WEIGHT RECORD
RALPH ROSE SECOND TO McDoN- ALD-HE, TOO, BREAKS REC
 oRD-EVENTs TO FOLLOW.
YANKEES TOP ALL OTHERS
American Score Is 3ola Points to 261a, the Combined Score of All Other Nations-FinIand
 in Second Place.

Stockholm, July 11.-American run ners again showed to big advantage in the preliminary heats of the 200 meter race, run off here the fifth day of the Olympic track and field events.
 Reidpath, the Syracuse wonder; Ralph Craig, Ira Courtney, Heiland and Cooke were among the Americans to qualify. Cooke was hard pressed by R. Povey of South Africa and as a result the time made in his heat, P 1-5 seconds, was better than in those won by Craig and Reidpath.
 The others were all moving we'll, however. England qualified good squad in this event, Applegrath being among the number. This good run her beat out Teiland of the Xavier A. c. in their heat, but the American qualities.
 A new Olympic record was created by r. J. Mcdonald of the Irish-Amer- ican A. C., with his put of 15 meters 34 centlmeters Ga shade over 50 feet and inches), in the final of the 16- pound shot event. The old Olympic record of AS feet inches, made by Ralph Rose in 1904, also was exceeded by Ralph Rose himself, who put the weight 15 meters 25 centimeters Ca fraction over 50 feet).
 Mcdonald Is a member of the New York police force and is one of five of New York's finest" to be chosen members of the American Olympic team.
 Mike McGrath, another of the force with the American team, Is expected to be another easy winner in the ham, mer throw.
 Egon Erickson, a high jumper; FL Ter, a hurdler, and ,Gillies are the three other policeman members of the American team.
 The program for the fifth day of the athletic section of the Olympic games was full of interesting events. It in- cluded the trial heats in the 200meter flat race. the final of the 5,000-meter
  flat race, the pole vault and the weight putting. In all these competi- tions American athletes were engaged and the prospects of the United States team adding to its list of vic tories were very favorable at the opening of the sports.
 Finland made a good gain in the javelin contests and stood next to the United States. The points are reck- oned solely upon the track and field events and do not include the scores based upon swimming, cycling shoot ing, etc.
 Bonhag, Louis Scott and Tel s. Berna of Cornell were the American repre- sentatives, and neither was believed to be fast enough to beat J. Bouin, the wonderful French distance runner, or A. Kohlemaine, the great Finn. But they were certain to do their best, and there was the possibility of acci- dent favoring them in an event of this character
 Americans Retain Popularity. The Americans retain their popu- larity with all of the other contest ants, excepting the Britishers. The latter show their animosity at every opportunity, but as the Americans, man for man, are the superiors of the entrants from Great Britain, they pay little attention to the Britons' surly remarks.
 s. s. Abrahams, Cambridge uni versity man, assumed to criticise Ralph Craig because he left the mark with everyone who tried to beat the pistol' at the start of the 100-meter finals. Craig. in defense of his ac- tion. said:
 Tt was too bad that I did not all low myself to be beaten in order to please this bonehead. The rules are defec' i've regarding breaks, and man has to be alive to be equal to condi- tions."
 A steady rain which set in during the morning made 1t certain that the finals of the 1,500-meters and the l 5000 meters would be run off on wet 1 track. This was believed to be an ad- vantage to George Bonhag in the