The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-24
AMERICAN ATHLETES
MAKE GREAT START
Beat Canadians Mt Baseball
and Score on Track in
Interallied Games.

PARIS, June -. - with base
ball victory over the Canadian nine
and the placing of three men in the finals
OF the 100 and the 115 meter dashes, the
American team got away to q good start
on the first day Of the interallied games
in Pershins Stadium.
An International crowd OF $4,000 par
sons watched the contests. Robert sirnp-
con OF Columbia, Mo-. record holder In
the 100 yard high and 220 yard low h,ir-
dies, and Pat Ryan OF the Irish ArneriA
can Athletic Club, New York, champion
hammer thrower. unfurled the Stars and
stripes at the opening Of the games, with
nviators soaring overhead.
Athletes from the British dominions
shared the honors OF the day with the
Americans by winning two OF the four
principal races.
In the 100 meter dash Edward Teseh.
ner OF Harvard And Lawrence Mass.
Sol Butler of Dubuque University and
Hutchinson. Kan. and G. w. Paddock,
Pasadena, Cal, all won their heats. Pri-
vste U. Howard, Canada. and Lindsay
of New Zealand won their heats IN the
same event Tho time made by the
sprinters was not extraordinary. The
day was cold and clear.
In the baseball game w. 8. Fuller. for
merry of the Washington American
League team, shut out the Canadians by
to 0, much to the delight OF $500
American soldiers in the bleachers.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter Of
President Wilson. was an interested spec
tator.
The perfectly drilled troops Of two ma
! lions filled the big stands and they un-
loosed n volume Of sound that rcscm-
bled nothing else SO much as the DEM
onstration at the Polo Grounds when
Benny kauff slams CIT hone- IN the
ninth inning. Nothing v'aa lacking but
the locomotive cheer md the Tiger yell
to make the crowd seem like q mass OF
rooters at a Ynle-PrlEceton game.
This afternoon was one long to be re-
membered aside from tic attendance and
| noise. As colorful spectacle nothing
| like 1t has ever been seen In this cotih.
try. Tho flags OF eighteen nations were
living and-i harA -sSasees,seo naDmas NJ
r>r.-ti4rrs-st-.f- . If7Tc. - -ZZ.- Festive
| nntionalities. AS the French bands
blared out pixie" tho sturdy men OF all
| the allied nations marched around the
! field, the whole thing suggesting al attn
! letic entente binding together the SOL
diers who had fought side by side on tho
| battlefields.
There was only one thing to mar the
| programme at the opening OF the sta
| dunn yesterday. Presidents Poincaire
| and Wilson were to have made n grand
entree just after the French and Amer
| lean troops had marched around the
oval. President Poincaire was A. W.
, o. L. twenty minutes and President Will
son declined to attend, his Presbyterian
conscience rebeling. This despite the
| fact that the affair was staged by the
| 7. NJ. C. a.
The contract for building the stadium
called for its completion in ninety days,
but French labor troubles delayed the
work. which made II necessary to call
| In American engineers who finished the
job In record time by working in three
shifts. The French newspapers have not
ceased to marvel at this achievement.
! one OF them remarking that had the
French undertaken the Job II would not
! have been completed In three wears
Some OF the newspapers declared that
In arousing the French people TO the
necessity OF physical and health edu-
! cation and rebuilding, America has
| made her greatest gift to France