THE OLYMPIC GAMES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 251, 16 July 1908, Page 7

THE OLYMPIC GAMES.

THREE EYENTS WON. TWO AMERICAN SUCCESSES. LARNER WINS FOR BRITAIN IN THE "WALK. KERR PLACED THIRD. (BY TELEOKAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Rec. July 15, 10.18 p.m.) London, July 15. The following are the results of tho Olympic championship events so far decided :— Champion Walk, 3500 metres (3825yd5.). G. E. Lamer (Britain), 1. Webb (Britain), 2. H. Kerr (Now Zealand), 3. i Time, 14min. 55sec. Rowlands, of New Zealand, who has been in England some time, was unsuccessful in his heat. Lamer, who belongs to the Brighton and County Harriers, and is a policeman, holds the world's amatour record for the following distances:—l mile, Grain. 25 3-ssec.; 2 miles, 13min. 11 2-sseo.; 3 miles, 20min. 25 4-ssec.; i miles, •2<iuili. 14sec.; 5 miles. a(in:in; 0 l-.W.; >; ;i:u-*-'. 43min. 26 l-ssec.; 7 miles, 50min. 50 4-osec.; and 8 miles, 58min. 18 2-ssec. His times for 2 miles, 4 miles, 7 miles, and 8 miles are> faster than the professional records. / Webb, who came second, belongs to the Heme Hill Harriers, and is ail ex-soldier. At Stamford Bridge recently he defeated Lamer in tho 7 miles championship. The pair met in tho 3500 metros walk at the Olympic tests on May 30 last. Massing tno prixnd 2tni yards from l lie start Wobo heW first place, Larner lying third. In. the next lap Larner took second place, and at the mila h e was 20yds. behind Webb. By tho time another circuit had been completed Larner was at Webb's shoulder. Direotly afterwards Larner took command, and when tho bell rang for tho last lap he was forty yards to the good: He won oleverly by fifty yards in 15min. 16 l-ss-c. . , Referring to the contest, tho London "Sportsman" said: "Larner walked fairly - and well and at a uniform pace almost throughout. He is undoubtedly the best man over the distance." The distance of the other walk in connection with the games is 10 kilometres (10 miles). ' Hammer 1 Throwing. Flanagan (America) won with a throw'of 170 ft. Flanagan, tho winner of tho hammer throwing contest, belongs to the Greater New York Irish Athletic Club. Ho was the holder of tho previous Olympic record for this event, viz., lCSft. lin., established at St. Louis. Flanagan is afeo the holder of the world's record for throwing the 161b. hammer, ham'.lo included, (4ft. handle, 7ft. circle), his distance being 172 ft. llin., and throwing the 161b. hammer (handle 4ft. unlimited run and follow), with a throw of 154 ft. 4in. These performances also eclipse the records by professionals. At tho recent English trials the best performance was that of E. C. B. May, who sent the hammer only 125 ft. Champion Race, 1500 metres (1639 yards). M. W. Shcpp'ard (America) ... 1 Timo, 4min. 3 2-ssec, Lynch (Now South Wales) was beaten in his heat. With referene to the 01500 metre (1639 yards) flat race it is interesting to note that the distance was covered by Wilson at the rooont English amateur-trials for the Olympic Games in 3min. 59 4-ssec—an Olympic record. The previous holder was 1). Lightbody, of the Chicago Athletic Club, who traversed tho distanco in 4min. 5 2-ssec. at St. Louis. The winner of this event at Athens in lflOG took 4min. 12seo. to completo tho distance. Melvin W. Sheppard, who was born at Almonesson, New Jersey, on Soptombor 5, 1883, has been described as "the best runner between half a mile aiid two miles that America has over produced." Although lie rau prior to 1904, it was in that year that he .appeared iu. tho athletic firmament as a star of the first magnitude. At the lutorscholastic meeting held in New York lie captured tho half-mile and milo races for tho 13rown Preparatory School with ease, his times being 2min. 3 4-ssec. and 4min. 31 l-sseo. respectively, both records for indoor meets. . In tho same year ho accounted for the halfmile and mile in the Olympic Interscholastio Championships at St. Loujs. In the following year he broke both tho milo and two miles record, the first at Cornell in March, when his time was 4min. 2S 2-ssec., and the second at the carnival hold by the Univorsity of Pennsylvania, his timo being 9minl 57 2-ssec. In 190G Sheppard joined the Irish-American Athlotio Club, and won the 1000 yds. and mile indoor National Championship in their colours. Ho next won tho mile in tho Metropolitan, National, and Canadian meetings. He is tho holder of the 1000 yds. indoor record of 2inin. 17 4-5 sec. made at Madison Square Gardens on November 9, 1906. In 1907 he ran better than ever, covoring the half-mile in lmin. 5G 2-5 sec., at ' the Metropolitan Championships, lmin. 5S 2-ssec. in the National Championships, and lmin. 58 l-sseo. in the Canadian Championships. Swimming. ' In th '100 metres swimming event Tartakover (Australia) had a bye. ;■ E. J. Cooko (New South Wales) was beaten in his heat of this event. j Beaur'epairo (Victoria, Australia) won his heat in 5 min. 49 sec. I Reginald Baker, Beaurepairo, Springfield, 'and Tartakover were chosen, after a trial race, to represent Australasia in the Olympic games swimming teams championship of tho world, E. J. Cooko being reserve man. i ,■ • ,,■