New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-16
Thorpe Makes Olympic
Games Victory Complete

. Wednesday direct for Dover. England.
Part Of the company will transfer to
the Naderland and go home, while 9TH
ers will travel in Europe
The S,0O0-metre cross-country race
proved surprise to the Americans as
wcll rs to the others. TT wasn't a race.
but rock climbing contest" one Of them
described it. while he was rubbing his
bruises In the dressing room after the
| struggle.
The event really rcsemblcd ar obstacle
race There was only two hundred yards
! Of level country outside the Stadium.
and the contest consisted largely Of cliff
| climbing and tearing through the under
| brush. None OF the runners hgG seen
the course before. Not a few of them
| were badly scratched ny the brush
| Forty four started and tweuty-cight fin
/ ished The time OF the winner, II. Ko-
! lehmainen, Of Finland. was % minutes
! II 80 seconds. The times Of Harry Il.
| Hellowell. New York \. c., and Louis
! Scott South Paterson. wEo finished to-
! gether among tie Inst few runners. were
not taken. Tel Bernd. Of Cornell, dropped
! out, as he said he was a runner and not
/ a rock climbing goat.
In the military riding competition three
of the five events are Observation-Disclosures
/ ride OF IS kilometres (3i miles, cross
country ride of kilometres @ miles) and
/ individual steeplechase. The standing up
to date is Germany. % points: Sweden,
S9.S; United States, 1892; France. SS25;
/ Belgium. 1854; England, 57.49, and Den
mark, $500.
or the American team Lieutenant Ben
Lear, 18th Cavalry, and Lieutenant John
! G. Montgomery, eth Cavalry. are in the
first class with two Swedes, three Ger
/ mans and two French officers. all having
, scored 80 points Lieutenant f.. +. Ora
I ham. 18TH Cavalry. L. 5. A.. mas scored
1902 points. and stands thirteenth, and
Captain Guy V. Henry, 18th Cavalry. has
scored 29.iG points and stands fourteenth.
! There are nineteen competitors.
James Thorpe, OF the Carlisle Indian
| School. proved himself easily the greatest
/ ail-round athlete OF the world in the De-
! cathlon. The final number Of this fixture
| was the l.5O0-metre run in heats. Holmer
won the first heat, with WiCkman a few
! inches ahead Of Donoghue in a close
| finish The time was { minutes Al $40
seconds Kugelberg won the second heat,
with Mercer second, in AS 3-5. Thorp
captured the third heat in 40 10 leading
by $50 yards.
! Mercer. Of Pennsylvania, cleared 3
metres TO centimetres Nl feet yaa Inches
in the pole vault this morning, while
James J. Donoghue. Los Angeles Athletic
/ Club, was second. with 3 metres 40 cent?
metres On feet As inches). Thorp and
three others cleared 3 metres % cent?
metres 90 feet 8 inches).
Romp in the Relay Race.
The United States won the 1900
metre relay race with plenty to spare
| with Melvin ". Sheppard, Edward f.
Liadberg. James E Meredith and
/ Charles L. Reidpath. Each of the men
had TO cover 400 metres, and the Ameri-
cans won in minutes l6 30 seconds.
England was handicapped because the
teams first man, G. Nicol. went lame
and fell far behind in the first 200
metres, while Sheppard finished ten yards
ahead OF the Frenchman. c. a. c. Poule-
nard. The teams maintained these posi-
tres, the American runner keeping twenty
to thirty yards in front Of his French
rival and the Englishman another ten
yards behind. In the last two relays the
Britons managed to make up some Of the
lost ground. but It awaited them nothing.
The runners in the s00o-metre cross
country run about five mlles) came 10
the mark and formed in two lines across
the track. Sweden furnished round
dozen. while five Americans toed the
mark. as follows: Louis Scott. South
Paterson: George V. Bonhag, Irish Amer
lean Athletic Club; Harry L. Hellowell,
New York Athletic Club; William J.
Kramer Long Island Athletic Club and
Tel S. Berna, Cornell University.
The athletes went out Of the Stadium
we'll punched, but when they re-entered
the Stadium half way through the race.
circled the track once and then left for
the open country again Kolehmainen, the
Finn. had a long lead Of 200 yards and
was going with his usual ease. A. Lin
dahl. Sweden. was nearest to him, while
+. w. Johannson, Finland, was next.
Then came three Swedes, fourth. nth
and sixth Hellowell was then seventh
! Berna stopped and fell out OF the race
| when the runners reached the Stadium.
Kolehmainen finally won easily, the two
Swedes, III. Anderson and J. Exc, second
and third, respectively. J. Eskola was
fourth; J. Ternstrom. Sweden. ffth A.
Stenroos, FINLAND. sixth: ". Kyronen'
Finland, seventh; l.. Richardson, South
Africa, eighth y. LARSON, Sweden. ninth
X. Lundstrom, Sweden, tenth; Harry r.
Helowell, New York a. C.. was twelfth
and Louis Scott, South Paterson A c.
eighteenth. These were the only two
American runners to finish.
| While the runners were outside the