The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-07-07
Seven Winners and Three Qualify
in Heats Of 100
Meters
FIVE QUALIFY IN leO.METER
Pennsylvania Equals Worlds Re-
cord, Beating Olympic
by Is Of Second

Stockholm, july American
athletes starred In the principal
track events run off today at the
opening OF the fifth series OF Olym-
pic games here. In tSle preliminary
heats of fhe 100 meter fiat race sew
Ell representatives of the United
States were winners while three
others oyialified for the semi-knal
by securing secoRd plpaees. In the
preliminaries, d. F. Lippincott of
the University of Pennsylvania,
equaled the worlds record for the
distance 10 3-5 seconds, beating the
Olympic record by 15 of second.
In the semi-tinals of the 100
meter sprint five Americans, Fl. r.
Drew of Springfield, Mass; A. T.
Meyer of the lrish-American A, C.,
X. G. Craig of Detroit, Lipplncott
and A. v. Belote of Chiclso. won
their heats, thus qualifying for tho
final.
IN the 800-meter race prelimin-
ary heats were won by d7e Ameri
ear athletcE and three Others also
qraEfied for surttRr compet,;lon Ey
VIII ming second baces Nc extra
ordinary fast times Were made in
tAis event, the best being llat Of r
E Mann of Englalsd. It IS note
worthy that the heat won by John
Paul Jones of Cornell was the slow
est of all, but he was not pressed in
any way.
Melvin W. Sheppard, la. A. G.
was defeated by j. c. soutter of
England in this event, but was
qualified for the final by getting
second place, and the slow time in
which the hat was run, 3m. 25s in
dfeates that he was reserving HIM
self for his later effort
Americans were dispatched in the
defeat of C. f. Wilson of Coe Col
lege. The Western runner has this
season been the most consistent 10
second man OF the country for the
100-yard dash, and in the Chicago
trial he tied the worlds record for
the 100 meters-10 Ass. He was
therefore considered one of two
main reiances of the taem in this
event.
Today IN the tenth heat D. II.
Jacobs of England beat him neck
in worlds record time--10 ass
The other principal asset of the
American sprint squad, II. P. Drew,
the Springfield, Mass, negro high
school boy, won his heat from A.
| Kern, Germany, in hollow fashion,
time, / seconds,
Worlds Record Broken.
| The American crowd present went
into a storm of cheering after the
sixteenth heat and foAgot the defeat
| of Wilson, when Donald F. Lippin-
colt G the University of Pennsyl-
| vana beat w. r. Applegarth Of
England, setting a new worlds rec-
| ord for the distance, 10 35 seconds,
For the S00-meter event tho fol-
| lowing were returned victors in their
qualifying tests: David s. Caldwell,
Massachusetts Agricultural College;
| Herbert ~ Putnam, Cornell Uniyer-
sity; John P5sil Jones, Cornell Eni-
| versity; Clarence s. Edmundson,
| Seattle A A; Ira N. Davenport.
| University OF Chicago; Harland W.
Holden, Bates College; Melvin W.
Sheppard, l. A. G. and James M
Meredith of Mercerhurg Academy.
Ippincott Wins Again.
| In the semi-final Of the 100-meter
race Howard p. Drew again showed
his class, but he eliminated two of
his teammates by winning. Jacobs
| OF England, who spoiled Coe's
chance In the preliminaries, went
down to defeat. Lippincott showed
that his worlds record was not a
iiash by coming back with a 10 7-10s
time in the sernd final
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