The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-08
thusiasm for the United States.

The hero OF the second day vas Ralph
Craig OF Detroit and Michigan university.
the Olympic record A yard behind came
Alvah Z. Never. separated inches from
Donald F.. Lippincott, who was Ike
distance ahead Of se'ote; Last & OF all wa Was
prior TO the event, was held In almost
sacred fear by the entire American team.
including managers and trainers;
The manner OF Crals's winning was
spectacular and proved him one OF the
brainiest, as well as swiftest. runners OF
the day, The Olympic rules have no PEN
to take much time us possible before
the pistol finally forced the race. thus
wearing down the dangerous Patching
There were eight false starts and then
the Detroit boy ran the race OF his me
Away for an even start he ran next TO
Patching. content with keeping up even
up TO 70 meters. Then he let out bril-
liant final squirt, which broke the South
Africans heart.
In addition 10 getting a clean sweep on
points In the first important event Amer
lea got even for her defeat in this event
by South Africa four years ago in Lon
don, when our cracks were beaten by
Walker
At the close OF the day our nag still
f1uttered from two OF the high masts for
the next event, In which the final compe
tltion OF the pentathion was won by the
Indian. James Thorpe. with James j.
Donohue OF Los Angeles third. making
total OF 10 against for sweden, for
Jennings javelin throw Saturday, and
second In the pantathlou gave Norway :
points. Other nations, particularly eng
land. have not had a look-in, The Brit
ish trainer, Alec Nelson. the famous old
runner. told me tonight:
I'VE are outclassed. Your Americans
are too strong for us. Arnold Jackson
our Oxford miller, has chance In the
1900 meters, but your John Paul Jones Is
wonder"
Winning the pentathlon brought psrtic-
u)ar JOY to Commissioner Sullivan He
said:
Taking this event disproves tho charge
that Americans are specialists instead oi
all round athletes. for pentathlon means n
running broad jump, a javlin throw,
200 meter run. discuss throw and
1000 meter run. Thorpe averaged best
In all OF them, winning the last round
Of the 1900 meters scDsationaly. i am
particularly glad II was Thorpe who won.
because he's a real American Indian, not
Irish or Italian American, which has often
been the basis for criticism | believe the
pentathlon was put in the list to give ad
vantage TO foreigners; so II is n keen sat
isfac ton 10 capture II
In the 10000 meter run and the high
jump. first heats. the Americans. as usual.
qualified with the ma iorlty Of entries,
while in the semi finals OF tine 700 meters
TO be finished tomorrow the lineup Is six
Americans against two representing the
rest OF the world. Lupghi, the Italian
worlds champion. was disqualified. MoI
Sheppard saws he's going 70 win tomor-
row. which on past performances is the
hest prediction possible So at almost the
beginning Of the Olympad. Il looks Ike
America all the way,
With the mn meters cut of the way No
can afford To Quit Worrying about the
200 meeers. Both Craig and Lippncott
are better Al 200 than at 100 meters and
barring accidents see no reason why We
should not make cleaner sweep in this
event than in the 100 meters.
Il viii not make any prediction about
the result OF the 500 meters tomorrow
but 7 think that Sheppard Davenport
Meredith and Caldwell are better Than
Braun Of Germany Of Brock of Canada
Sheppard gave way at least eight wards