Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-13
MEREDITH MAKES FINE RUN
Mercersburg Boy Goes 400 Meters in
Forty Eight Seconds Flat.
BROAD JUMP MARK Is BROKEN
Vermont Man Makes New Record Of
Nearly twenty-five Feet.
FINN WINS THE DISCUS THROW
Americans Are Second and Third In
This Event--rryouts in the
400 Meters Race Largely
Formal.
Formal.

I STOCKHOLM. July 2.-Yankee ath-
letes continued harvesting their crop of
laurels at the Olympic games today, All
the places In the final Of the 1lo-meter
race were won by Americans; Uni
versity OF Vermont man captured the
broad jump. and nine wearers of the
starry shield qualified for the semi
finals 'inthe 400-meter race.
Incidentally Americans broke two
records-one Of them twice. In the 400
meter race. James Meredith, the Mercers-
burg school boy, paced by the veteran
Melvin Sheppard, wore down the old
Olympic mark 70 IS seconds a few
minutes after Charles Redpath Of Syra-
cuse university had broken the same
record by running the distance in 4S.7
seconds.
In the running broad jump Albert l..
Gutterson, the Vermont leaper, with a
jump Of meters go centimeters CA feet
II inches and fraction) beat the
previous Olympic record of "a feet Sls
inches
The discus event was something of q
disappointment for the American team,
who met powerful opponent in the
Finn, Fl. A. Taipaie, but they made him
break worlds record with throw Of
lis feet ia inches to get first place. Two
Of the United States team. H. L. Byrd
and James II, Duncan, were second and
third respectively.
Intense feeling was aroused by the dis
qualification OF Donald B. Young Of the
Boston Athletic association In the semi
finals of the 400-meter flat race for In
reference with Braun 1t Is understood
that the American committee Is likely to
make a protest and some of the English
sportsmen here probably will support II.
The Young episode Is almost duplica-
ton of that which occurred In London
during the last Olympic games, when
Carpenter the American sprinter, was
disqualified In the 4iO-yard race.
70 add TO the unpleasantness of the
day for the Americans. the sailors OF
the Finland struck and refused to man
the launches 20 and from the shore.
The mornings stsrtaa with a fine
performance BY the Finn A. r.
Taipale In the discus throwing.
best hand final. Te beat with his
throw Of d meters 81 centimeters Gas
feet III inches) not only the Olympic
record of 1876 feet Ia inches made by the
American, Sheridan, In Athens In 1905.
but also the worlds record Of las feet sh
inches established by James Duncan at
Celtic park. New York, on June this
year, r. l.. Byrd's throw Of AZ metres 80
eentmetres QSs feet 9b inches) and
James Duncans throw Of AZ metres Is
centrimetres Q3S feet Sss inches) also
exceeded the standing Olympic record.
Tryout for 40O-Meter Race.
The first tryouts for the 400-metres flat
race were largely formalities. In several
of the heats there were only two entries
and what races there were usually oc-
Cured between the second and third
man. The failure of G. r. L. Anderson,
England, to gain place in the first heat
was a great disappointment to the Eng
lishmAn.
The first and second In each trial heat
qualified for the semi-finals run later In
the day. Americans who won places In
the semi-fnals were James M. Rosen-
berger. Irish American Athletic club;
Melvin w. Sheppard. Irish American
Athletic club; James e. Meredith, Mer-
cerburg academy; Donald B. Young,
Boston Amateur Athletic club; Harold B.
Haff. University Of Michigan; Edward
F. Lindberg, Chicago Amateur Athletic
club; Clarence S. Edmundson, Seattle
Athletic association /. c. Davenport,
University of Chicago, and Charles D.
Reidpath, Syracuse university.
England will have six representatives
In the semi-finals, Sweden five and
France and Norway two each. South
Africa. Italy, Germany. Japan and Hun
gary will be represented.
No attempt was made to run fast in
the heats where only two men competed
and 1t was not necessary that Sheppard
and E. W. Haley, England, who ran a
dead heat in the second heat merely
covered the course at jog trct, taking
66b seconds to cover the 400 metres.
In the first heat of the semi-finals of
the io0-meters race, Charles d. Reid