The Detroit times., 1912-07-11

qualified 10 men, eight OF whom won
their heats and two who finished sec
ond. Carl &. Cooke OF Cleveland.
and Ralph c. Craig, of Detroit. made
the best time In winning their heats,
p 20 seconds, as compared with the
Olympic record, OF 2l SO seconds. A
steady rain which set In In the morn
ing. made IL certain that the finals or
the 1.500-meter and the 5,O00-meter
events would be run of on a wet
track This was believed to be an
advantage to George Bonhag. in the
5,000-meter event. as he is a reeog-
nized mud horse"
The result OF the 5.000meter race.
was, as expected, a triumph for Fin
land The race vas won by III. Kohl
emainon, OF Finland. with the French
crack, j. Bouin In the place position,
and K. w. Hubon. of England, third.
The complete summaries of the O.
000-metre preliminaries as follow:
First heat--Chas ID. Reidpath SYRIA
cuse university first; Rolote. France.
second. Time. 22 3-5.
Second heat-Ralph G. Craig. Detroit.
first; Rice, England. second. Time
20 AS.
Third--Ira Courtney. Seattle. first;
Macmillan England second. Time
22 2-5 seconds.
Fourth heat--cluther. England. first;
Grijisell. Holland. second. Time 20 20
seconds.
Fifth heat-AppTegarth. England.
FIRST. Harold Holland. New ork, sec
ond. Time "a 2-5.
derson. England. second. Time "a 2-5
Seventh heat-Carl G. Cooke, Cleve-
land A. c.. first; PCvey, South Africa
second Time 22 l-5. =,
Time %
Mezi. Hungary, SECOND Time 20 lilo;
A. A.. San Francisco, first; Darcy.
E1eventh-Donald F. Lippincott.
University of Pennsylvania. first; Mol
Twelfth heat-Alvah T. Meyer. l. A.
c. c.. first; Duncan. England. second.
Thirteenth heat-Donald b. Young,
Boston A. c.. first seedhouse. England.
Fourteenth heat-Patching, South
Africa. first; Clement i. Wilson, Coe
college. second, Time 22 AS.
Fifteenth heat-Hermann, Germany
first; Devan. Hungary. second Time
223-10
sixteenth-Stewart South Africa; II.
NJ. Mcintosh, dead heat. Time 20
Seventeenth--Jacobs England, hrst
jacobson. Sweden. second. Time 20 l-5
Eighteenth-Presson Sweden. hrst;
Schurrer. France second. Time % Id.
The race was so bitterly contested
that Louis Scott the Paterson youth
who essayed TO cut out the early
pace, was forced to quit before II
was half over. Porter, the English
champion from whom great things
were also looked for, dropped out on
the eleventh lap Bonhag, the vet
eran American. finished fourth, beaten
only 10 feet for third honors. The
time was l4:06 9-5. new worlds rec
ord for the distance.
Kohlemainon, the winner, and
Bouin, the Frenchman, who finished
second, alternated in the lead In the
last lap. Ten feet from the finish line
the Finn forced himself to the front
and managed to get home winner with
the narrowest OF margins Both Of
the two first men were in state OF
utter collapse at the end OF the race
and had TO be carried from the track.
In the semi-finals OF the 200-meter
run. Ralph Craig, OF Detroit, won the
first heat in 81 $40. In the second
heat, Clement p. Wilson. of Coe col
lege, was beaten in the same time
by Applegarth, the English Splinter.
Donnell B. Young, OF Boston, won the
third heat In Fl 7-10; ID. F. Lippin-
colt, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. won the fourth In Il 1-5; Rau,
the German, was first home in the
fifth heat in % lilo, and Charles d.
Reidpath, OF Syracuse university, won
the sixth heat in 22 lilo.