The sun., 1912-07-12
THREE VICTORIES PUT
AMERICA AHEAD AGAIN
Pole Vault, Two Handed shot
and 200 Meter Run Add to
Yankee Laurels.
BABCOCK'S WIN POPULAR
Columbian Sets New Record in
Vault. Wright and Nelson
Completing Sweep.

STOCKHOLM. sweden. July II Triumph
after triumph followed the efforts Of the
American athletes at the Olympic games
the first time yesterday was forgotten
in the brilliant successes that added six
teen points to the score of the United
States and placed the Stars and Stripes
five points in the lead of all the other
nations combined in the track and field
events.
! In the pole vault America scored another
sweep, taking all three places There was
great satisfaction expressed over the fact
that the first place. with the honor Of an
Olympic record. went to that sterling
athlete. Harry $. Babcock. of Columbia
University. Babcock cleared ~ feet
! Il's inches and thus made amends for
his defeat in the intercollegiate games
this spring. when competing with Grip
Piled knee he was forced To take second
to Gardner of Yale who was the first
man to clear over i3 feet Since Maxey
Long brought the Blue and White into
international notice by making the
worlds record for the quarter mile. Bah
cock is the first Columbia man to SO dis
tinguish himself. He is an all around
athlete of the first water and no more
popular victory has marked the present
| Olympics.
! With the exception II Gardner all the
best vaulters in the world were repre-
sented. including Marc = Wright of
Dartmouth, who made the worlds record
of l3 feet 81. inches At the Boston tryouts.
The best Wright could do to-day was to
tie for second place with Frank 7. Nelson,
formerly Of Yale. thus placing all the
points 10 the credit Of America
Americas other points were scored
in the 700 meter final and in putting the
shot with both hands. la the sprint race
Ralph {. Craig of the Detroit Y. NJ e. A.
carried the American shield to victory
for the second time. with Donald F. Lip
pincott. the University Of PENNSYLVANIA
freshman, in second place. In the shot
put with both hands RALPH Rose of the
Olympic A. e. of San Francisco turned
the table. on Pat. McDonald. his CON
queror Of yesterday. but both beat all
the other competitors 80 that five more
points were added 10 IL. TnitcI states
total.
In the only other event decided. the
lDOU meter walk, AmcricL was unulac.d
the honor going as expected 70 the wonder
walker. Goulding of Canada r. j. Web
of England was second and +, Altimani
of Italy third Coudiug made new
Olympic record for the distance of 40
minutes IS 20 seconds
In qualifying for the 10 meter hurdle
race America again showed the same
sweeping superiority that has charac-
terized all the events whore there were u
number Of men 10 bc weeded out In the
preliminary round there were eleven heats
and the Yankees won eight of them
Then came the semi-hnals, where only
the winners qualified for the final heat
TODAY. One outlander was allowed TO
remain In the competition with the glori- |
ois band Of Americans. He was K. Powell |
of England. who defeated John J. El!er Ir., |
of the Irish American A. c. in the first |
of the semi final heats The other five /
heats were won by Americana in the |
following order: Martin W. Hawkins, /
Multnoinah A. c.. Portland. Ore: John |
=. Nicholson. University OF Missouri |
james Wendell, New York A. c.: Fred W. |
Kelley, Seattle 4. A., and John r. Case |
University Of Illinois.
There was determination marked on he !
faces of every one of the Americans when |
they entered the stadium to-day to wipe |
out the defeats of vest erday; that ia, if |
concentration and well timed efforts
could accomplish this object. 1t was
unfortunate that the first man who was |
called on to uphold the honor of the United |
States had hopeless task set him Fred |
H. Keiser of the New York A. c. was the |
only American that survived the heats |
of the 10000 meter walk and it was gem
orally recognized that there was little
hope of his beating the walkers of the Old !
World-where more attention Ia paid |
to this sport than in America much less
the master OF the game that Canada has |
developed in George Goulding. There |
were ten starters. but Goulding sct such |
strong pace that all but four had dropped |
out or were disqua lifted for lifting before
the finish was reached Keiser followed
the Canadians pace, but soon was seen
to be in trouble. He continued gamely |
until the tenth lap. when he dropped on |
the track completely exhausted, Goulding ,
had no difficulty in beating the field and |
and he won by eighty yards from he |
English champion, f. j, Webb.
The bar in the pole vault was frs.
placed at II feet 4-5 inches, and as all |
the men in the fina had cleared "a greater
height than that in qualifying it WAS
easily negotiated. At II feet o., inches
Murphy, Belah, Coyle and Fritz. all
Americans, failed at their first attempt,
but got safely over on their second trial.
At II feet rs. inches one Of the few OBJ
stacles to the success of America was
removed when Pasoman, the German
champion, failed, uggia. the Swedish
entry, got over the bar on his first attcmp,
and this aroused the spectators To cheers,
az it made a new Swedish record Coyle
of the University of Chicago had u narrow
e-cap" from injury when trying at this
height His pole snapped IA hs WAS
mounting and he dropped hack to the
ground, Tho pole va. bToaen IN Two.