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REDS' FIRST DRIVE
ON WARSAW FAILS
ICE SHORTAGE IS NO
BETTER IN PORTLAND
COX FftCES DEFEAT
173,911 IN 24 MILLION
LISTED AS DESERTERS
SOVIET TO SEEK
COX TELLS SPEED COP
HIS .NAME, DRIVES ON
ADJUTAXT-GEXERAL SAYS IT'S
PLOT OP REPCBLICAXS.
FLIERS REACH ALASKA,
HOP OFF FOR YUKON
E
POPTJLATIOX OF WRANGELL
REGULAR PATROXS GET PREF
ERENCE IX SUPPLY.
WAR DEPARTMENT TO AX
XOTJXCE THOSE ACCUSED SOOX.
SEES FIRST PLAXES.
5 FINNS SHATTER"
JAM RECORD
All Americans Place in
BIT
GERMAN ALLIANG
To Win Backing of Wilson
Group Is Sole Hope.
SUPPORT NOW IS LUKEWARM
Tammany Alliance Must Be
Deserted, Says Sullivan.
OUTLOOK NOW IS GLOOMY
Ohio Governor Needs Active Fi
nancial Aid of Wilson Men, Xot
Mere Lip Approval, to Win.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
fCopyrlght by the New York Evening Post,
Inc. UDtlanea Dy Arrangement.
DAYTON, O., Aug. 15. (Special.)
This article aims to consider the
morale to use the military term of
the two parties, the solidarity of their
organizations and the fighting quality
of each as they enter the campaign.
There have been cleavages in both
parties. I do not now refer to the
cleavage among voters on the ques
tion of the league of nations that
cleavage may result in pro-league re
publicans voting for Cox and anti-
league democrats voting for Harding
but I am referring not to cleavage
among the rank and file, but to cleav
age among the leaders. What I am
referring to is the state of feeling in
what may be termed the "Inner fam
ily circle" of the leadership of each
party.
Cleavages Are Noted.
There was a cleavage among the
re-publicans which was open and no
torious, this was the hostility be
tween the conservative and the pro
gressive leaders of that party. That
rupture lasted up to and through the
recent republican convention and upon
the nomination of Harding it flared
up strong.
The progressives in the party were
frankly dismayed at the nomination
of so thorough-going a representative
of the conservative group. Two of
the progressive leaders whom I know
were so disturbed that they went in
person to the San Francisco conven
tion to see if the democrats might be
persuaded to follow a course which
would make it possible for progres
sive voters to align with them. But
when the balloting came and when
the choice of the democratic nominee
fell so largely Into the hands of the
Tammany and the New Jersey ma
chine and the Chicago machine, these
progressive leaders hurried back
home in the shocked alarm of little
boys from the boulevards who have
been playing with boys from ithe rail
road yards and have had their clean
pinafores muddied. The fact that the
democratic nomination was made by
Tammany and the associates of Tam
many ended all thought of sympathy
between the old progressives and the
democrats.
Republican Morale High
The republican jarty enters the
campaign with a morale almost 100
per cent perfect. Moreover, the re
publican organization machine Is run
nlng smoothly and with the perfec
tion of a high-class business organi
sation. Among the democrats, however,
there is not only cleavage but lack of
organization. The democratic ma-
Local Officials, Patriotic Societies
and Other Agencies to Be Asked
to Help in Round-Up. '
"WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Less than
1 per cent of more than 24,000,000 men
registered under the draft during the
war have been found chargeable with
wilful desertion, the war department
announced today. The total against
whom desertion charges have been re
corded is 173,911, representing, the
statement says, "a tremendous im
provement over the draft record of the
civil war."
The department soon will announce
those branded as deserters and the
statement adds that the government
"desires to obtain co-operation of
state and local officials; patriotic soci
eties and other agencies, including the
department of Justice, in bringing
about their apprehension."
Pending the publication, the state
ment continues, any man charged with
desertion may avoid arrest by sur
rendering at any army post. If his
record is cleared, "his name will be
omitted from-the deserter list. Those
in doubt as tor their status are urged
to inquire of the adjutant-general.
The list was compiled after local
boards had been instructed to send
in records of all men classed as draft
deserters during the war. A total of
489,033 records were forwarded, but
on examination it was shown 16,000
dealt with cases disposed of.' They
included registrants who enlisted vol
untarily and failed to notify their
draft board; men who failed to report
wnen aranea ana wno reported ax
the camps; few men discharged as
physically unfit and some convicted
of desertion during the war, and reg
istrants who died. The records in
151,000 other cases also showed will
ful desertion could not be charged
and they were eliminated.
War on France, England
and U. S. Planned.
PROPAGANDA UNDER WAY
Armies Urged to Continue
After Polish Conquest.
HIGH REDS TELL AIMS
Teutons Declared Friends Who Are
Soon to Be Comrades If Pact
Fails, Revolt Is Intent.
Officer. Insists . He Has Orders to
Arrest All in Party; Xominee
Leaves State House Address.
Last Leg of Flight Is Made Over
Almost Continuous Chain of Gla
ciers; White Horse Xext Stop.
KOLNO, Poland (By Courier" to
Dlotowen, East Prussia) Aug. 15.
(By the Associated Press.) Soviet
Russia intends to seek an alliance
with Germany to make war on France
and, if it succeeds, to undertake a
conquest of England and eventually
America, officials of the bolshevik
regime told the Associated Press to
day.
When the Polish war, considered
purely Russian business, la finished,
a note will be sent to Berlin, they
declared, demanding permission to
transport troops across Germany for.
the French campaign. On . refusal,
which is taken for granted, a revolu
tion will be instituted in' Germany,
the success of which bolsheviki as-
The-statement says because of the I 8Srted they were prepared to assure
expense which would be incurred, I by force of arms.
payment of the 850 reward for appre- (. .
hension of draft deserters has been I
wiin mese enas in view, xtussian
soldiers, who have been told all wars
shall cease with victory over the
WEST IRRIGATION HELD UP Polea- are belnS subjected to propa
ganda wnicn declares - rencnmen
nnM rvwt .nil T,nr-If rf Anr.ro- 1 WIU " B 1 """ -"
- I uermanB are irieuus wiiu sutiu wiix
priation to Delay Avork. 1 comrades. is
SPOKANE. Wash.. Aug. 15. Double These admissions have been cor
cost and failure of congress to give roborated by Information gathered by
Hnubla aonronriations will delay the I th.e correspondent
temporarily suspended.
time for carrying out the irrigation
programme of. the' United States re
clamation service ' in the Pacific
northwest, according to Arthur P.
Davis, chief engineer of the reclama
tion service, who was in Spokane
today.
The Rimrock impounding project in
Yakima valley will have to go over
for another year because of inade
quate appropriation, and other pro
jects which have gone no further
than investigation, will be postponed
indefinitely, he declared.
CANTU IS READY TO QUIT
in conversation
with German representatives of east
Prussian newspapers who interviewed
bolshevik array chiefs. Bolshevik
leaders declared that within three
weeks they would completely control
Poland, including the Polish corridor,
which they Intend to occupy, leaving a
ten-kilometer neutral zone about
Danzig.
When the correspondent arrived
here crossing the border at Czerwone
by the aid of Poles and a wagon filled
with straw, he" called on the Polish
soviet commissary who recently was
established in office by the bolshevik
military.
Han Sch,arnewsky, the commissary,
is a Polish Jew, with protruding eyes
Immunity and Colonelcy in Mexl- and blond mustache, and -wears
. . . white collar, tie acKnowieogea me
can Army -Are uemanutu
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15. Esteban
Cantu, governor of Lower California,
who has been leading an insurrec
tion gainst the federal government,
has agreed to surrender office to Luis
M. Salazar, recently appointed gov
ernor by provisional Pres. dent de la
Huerta.
He has stipulated, hcwver, he is
not to be punished for any of his
acts; that he- will remain a eolonel
In the Mexican army, and that his
J troops will, continue in the service,
according to the universal, wnicn
quotes an official announcement.
COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. J6. An un
successful attempt to arrest Gover
nor Cox on a charge of speeding and
an accident to one of the automobiles
of the newspaper men furnished ex
citement today in the motor trip on
the return from Wheeling, W. Va.
The attempt to arrest the governor
and his party was declared by Roy
E. Leyton, adjutant general of Ohio,
to have been planned by republicans
to embarrass the democratic nominee.
He said a warning of the plan had
been received yesterday.
At Jacksontown, O-, about 36 miles
east of Columbus, the party rode
siowly through,- disregarding out
stretched arms of a shirt-sleeved
man, and also many persons gathered.
Within a few minutes two motorcycle
officers stopped the cars, declaring
all under arrest and demanding their
return to the town. Governor Cox
identified himself, but the officer
said they had orders to arrest all four
automobiles "no matter who they
contained" on charges of speeding.
"You can reach me at the executive
office at Columbus any .time," Gov
ernor Cox replied, ordering all cars
to proceed and leaving the officers
busy taking down car numbers.
Soon afterward, during a rain and
In a jam of automobiles on a slip
pery road, a correspondent's car was
forced up an embankment and on an
lnterurban roadbed, partially over
turning to avoid other cars ahead.
Occupants were uninjured.
This week Governor Cox is to speak
at Columbus Tuesday before the Ohio
democratic convention; at South
Bend, Ind., Thursday before the state
democratic editors, and at a Cox day
celebration at Canton Saturday.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma, a friend
of W. J. Bryan and a candidate for
the presidential nomination, arrived
today to confer with Governor Cox.
He said he was not an emissary of
Mr. Bryan, but felt sure that the
Nebraskan would support the ticket.
His conference, he said, was to give
information supporting Governor Cox1
statements that plans have been laid
to impair the federal reserve act.
Senator Owen said he and his friends
would campaign vigorously in the
west for the Cox-Roosevelt ticket.
I
Poles Repulse Attempt to
Break Lines.
WRANGELL. Alaska, Aug. 15. The
army airplane expedition en route
from Mineola, N. Y., to Nome, Alaska,
reached here late Saturday afternoon,
having traveled the 210 miles from
Hazelton, B. C, in 2 hours and 27
minutes.
A perfect landing was made on Ser
gief island near here and was wit
nessed by the entire population of
Wrangell, including a number of In
dians to whom the planes were ob
jects of great .interest. ;
Captain St. Clair Street said the
fl'ght from Hazelton to Wrangell was
over an almost continuous 'chain of
glaciers and had proved by far the
most interesting part of the trip. The
aviators took a number of pictures
while In flight.
Mayhr John G. Grant delivered to
Captain iStreet, a cablegram from
Governor Thomas Riggs. welcoming
the aviators to the territory and re
gretting he could not be present to
greet them. At the request of Mayor
R. E. Robertson of Juneau, Captain
Street promised that the airplanes
would fly over that city on their way
north. The expedition left this aft
ernoon for White Horse, Yukon terri
tory, a distance of 300 miles.
ENEMY IS PURSUED TO BUG
Many Bolsheviki Killed Near
Wire Entanglements.
Two Carloads, Ordered From Spo
kane to Relieve Situation,
Fail to Arrive.
Other Olympic Events.
CAVALRIES IN CONTACT
Polish Command Orders Retreat in
Order to Shorten Line; Brody
Is Evacuated.
FLiER SAVES 2 IN WATER
i
Plane Used by Seattle Aviator to
Stescu Canoeists.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 15. (Spe
cial.) Charles Johnson, 28, and Gil
bert Farrar, 19, were rescued from
drowning in Lake Washington, a quar
ter of a mile off Madison park, today
by J. D. Hill, an aviator, who' heard
their cries for help and taxied over the
water to the side of the capsized
canoe. He Instructed the two men
where to hold onto the plane and tax
ied back to shore, dragging the two
men behind him.
The lake was covered by .a heavy
pall of- smoke and they remained in
the water 20 minutes before their
pries were heard by Hill at his hangar
on the shore. -
(Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.)
FISHERMAN IS DROWNED
Austrian Falls Overboard Into
Ocean Off Xortb. Head.
ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 15. (Special.)
Mija Glovas, a member of the crew
of the .purse-seining launch Sanslgot
was drowned in the ocean off North
Head this morning. He and another
member of the crew were in a small
boat assisting in laying out the seine
when their little craft was struck by
a huge breaker and . Glovas was
thrown overboard and sank before
help could reach him.
Glovas was a native of Austria and
about 25. years old. His body was not
recovered.
PASTOR'S COAT STOLEN
Rev. Joshua Stansfield Is "Victim
Wliile Preaching Sermon.
Rev. Joshua Stansfield.' pastor of
the First Methodist Episcopal church
was the victim of a thief who stole
a coat from his home last night while
Rev. Mr. Stansfield was preaching a
sermon In church. Patrolman Forken
arrested Charles Davenport, alias
"Bay Rum Charlie," and charged him
with the crime.
The theft was discovered when a
pedestrian threw a coat to the em
ployes in a filling station at Tenth
and Alder streets, telling them he
had found a better one. The police
were notified. Rev. Mr. Stansfield
identified the coat, found on "Bay-
Rum Charlie,"
WARSAW, Aug. 15. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Bolsheviki launched
their first attack .against Warsaw's
defenses today but were repulsed.
Early today, after light artillery
preparation, they attempted to break
through the Polish lines near Radzy
mln. The Poles not only killed many
who neared the barbed wire entangle
ments, but took prisoners.- '
East of Cholm. 40 miles east of
ubly, the Poles broke through the
nemy line at Ignatow and pursued
the bolsheviki to the right bank of
the Bug, says an official statement
onight. The Poles occupied Doro-
housk and Swiss-Rubiesew.
Polish cavalry, strengthened by in
fantry, is fighting near Radzizhow
and Chatojow, west of the Styr, with
the bolshevik cavalry, which out
numbers the Poles, the statement says.
. Polea Order Retreat. 4
The Polish command, to shorten the
line, has ordered a retreat to the Bug
and in so doing Poles have again
evacuated Brody. On the southern
wing, the statement declares, bolshe
vlk attacks were repulsed.
Saturday was one of Warsaw's most
strenuous days. The government, be
sides completing defense preparations,
had the task of getting the Polish
peace delegates started for Minsk. It
also continued removing valuable rec
ords.
Soon after midnight artillery firing
to the north was heard and military
observers said it was near Radzymln.
Wounded were brought to Prague in
carts. There they are transferred to
stretthers and later they are sent to
Warsaw.
Evacuation Order A waited.
Representatives of the American
legation, welfare organizations and
missions tonight decided to remain
until the government orders evacua
tion.
Americans express confidence that
the Poles can halt the bolsheviki.
British and French ministers have de
parted, but military missions remain.
Gold and silver are being removed.
The government national bank is
moving to Cracow.
NOTHING BUT MUD,
chine is in the disorder of transfer JQO DROWN
irom one group ox jeaaers to anotner ;
group, with the added handicap ot
suspicion and unfriendliness between
the two groups.
Between the democratic group that
nominated Cox and the Wilson-Mc-Adoo
group, which has had control
of the democratic organization for
the last eight years, there is a cleav
age which includes all the unyielding
hostility that goes with fundamental
ly antagonistic temperaments, pur
poses and points of view.
Anti-Wilson Group Win.
Cox was nominated by an element
in the democratic party which has
been out of power for eight years. It
Is an element of the party to which
President Wilson is antipathetic by
every law in his nature and which he
discriminated against in nearly every
one of his official acts and what is
of more consequence in this connec
tion In nearly every one of his of
ficial appointments.
The naming of Cox by this anti
Wilson element represented in 'a sin
gle act the satisfaction of revenge
and -hunger for future power. The
men who compose this group, through
whom Governor Cox was nominated.
are in the main Edmund H. Moore, j
the democratic national committee
man from Ohio, a representative of the
very usirt or me old guard and the
"wet" element in the democratic
. party; Charles F. Murphy and Tam
many hall. Nugent and the New JerT
sey machine, Brennan and the rest of
the Sullivan machine In Chicago and
to a less degree TagVart and the old
guard organization of Iowa. Toward
these men, with possibly one excep
tion, and toward these organizations
Wilson has always had an emotion
which it is not too much to describe
as hate.
Revenare on W" 11 hob Soas-ht.
In his official acts and appoint
ments Wilson discriminated against
these men and sought to destroy their
organizations by depriving them of
the nourishment of patronage. Wil
aon's distaste for these men and these
organizations was returned by them
IN FLOODS
2 00 Homes Demolished; Crops De
stroyed in Saghalen Island.
TOK.IO, Aug... 15. Four hundred
persons were drowned in the floods
in Saghalen island, "it was announced
today. .
A Toklo dispatch of August 12 said
floods in Saghalen island had de
stroyed crops, demolished 200 houses
and caused the death of 37 persons.
PLOT BARED IN ATHENS
Attempt to Kill Venizelos and Re
store Constantine Alleged.
ATHENS, Aug. 15. The newspaper
Estia today gave details of the dis
covery of aq alleged plot to restore
ex-King Constantlne, involving the
assassination of Premier Venizelos
The paper said the plot had been
hatching in Zurich, Switzerland, and
Athens for two months.
The ice shortage in Portland con
tinued to be felt yesterday, with vir
tually no change in the situation.
Regular patrons were being taken
care of to the best of the ice com
panies' abilities. Dut in many In
stances temporary customers could
not be supplied.
The Liberty Ice company last night
reported outsiders were being handled
In only small proportion to the de
mand. Many who had been unable to
obtain ice in spite of having signs
prominently displayed in front of
their dwellings had called at the plant
in automobiles and obtained small
supplies in this way.
Other ice companies reported much
the same situation, most steady cus
tomers being supplied and the spas
modic demand getting little atten
tion.
Two carloads of ice, ordered from
Spokane to aid the situation among
the ice cream manufacture who. it
was said, were not getting r-.iore than
two-thirds of the ice which they
needed to care for the heavy summer
trade, had not arrived last night. The
cars were expected at any time and
will relieve the situation consider
ably. The ice manufacturing plant of the
Henry Weinhard company, which has
not been in operation, will be used if
the hot weather continues, it was un
derstood, and this w ill add between 30
and 40 tons a day to the production
here. The shortage has been caused
by heavy demands of the hot weather,
it was asserted by company managers
last night, and a break in the present
heat wave will mean a rapid catching
up with the demand.
MURPHY QUALIFIES IN JUMP
U. S. Yell Leaders Dominate
Other Nationalities.
7000 .PERSONS ON HAND
HARDING TO ANSWER COX
Xominee Will Inject X'ew Element
Into Fight Thursday.
MARION, O., Aug. 15. The high
spot in Senator Harding's programme
for the week will be an address
Thursday to a delegation of mem
bers and former members of the Ohio
legislature. It was said at Harding
headquarters that the speech would
inject another element into the presl
dential fight. It was indicated that
he' might make his first reply to his
democratic opponent.
On Wednesday he will "visit a lum
bermen's picnic at Marion park and
is expected to speak briefly. A dele
gation representing the Society of
American Indians is to call on him
Wednesday.
Will H. Hays, the republican na
tional chairman, will confer on Tues
day with the nominee.
TROOP TRAIN STOPPED
Workmen of Ratobor in Silesia In
terfere With French.
BERLIN, Aug. 15. Workmen of
Ratobor, In Silesia, yesterday stopped
and sidetracked a French troop train.
according to the Oberschlesischer
Zeitung today.
. Three other troop trains were
stopped elsewhere, it said.
MISSING PLANES FOUND
Machines Located Xear San Fran
ciscoCrews Are Safe.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 15. Naval
seaplanes Nos. 4 and 11, missing last
night after nine others with which
they had started from San Diego Sat
urday morning had been accounted
for, were located . late today off the
coast near here.
The crews were safe.
11 1. I
POLISH PEOPLE ARE BROKEX
Nation Has Reached Complete and
Absolute Disintegration.
(Copyright by the New Tork World. Pub
lished by Arrangement. J
WARSAW. Aug. 15. (Special
Cable.) Poland as a nation already
has reached complete, absolute dis
integration. .
The average Pole no longer be
lieves in the Polish army, nor is his
greatest hero the uncrowned King
Pllsudskl. He has fathomless con
tempt for his new government, and
least of all. has he any faith in the
western powers. ' All the glorious
hopefulness of a year ago, even six
months ago, has gone. The Polish
people today are broken. They have
collapsed and have fallen back on
that bit of pre-eminently Slavic phi
losophy that nothing matters.
The Polish government today is a
travesty, well personified in the fig
ure of M. Vincent Wltos, the nation's
premier, who strolls aimlessly, with
out necktie, as always, and in peas
ant boots, about the corridors of the
Hotel Bristol.
The much heralded council of de
fense no longer "holds actual meet
ings. A few of saner men here, like
Grabski and Prince Sapleha, meet,
reach determinations and send forth
notes to the peace delegates, but their
maneuvers represent little else than
individual initiative and coolness. .
The great Pilsudskl legend is to
tally gone and the chief of state Is a
personage of the utmost inconse
quence. Every hour he is on the
point of flight and his official resi
dence at Belvidere, locked within a
cordon of guards, is visual evidence
of the fear he has come to have for
his very life at the hands of his own
countrymen.
Literally speaking Poland is with
out a government and clear visioned
people here have ceased to do aught
else than await as philosophically as
they can the next turn of events.
It would be entirely superfluous
to emphasize how every Pole feels
regarding the treatment meted out to
Poland by the western powers, par
ticularly England. Here the whole
allied policy Is regarded as an inex
plicably . ErossbeWayaL
REDS REDUCE POLISH LINE
Front Stretches Diagonally Across
Poland With Bow at Center
AT THE FRONT WITH THE
POLISH FORCES, Aug. 14. (By the
Associated Press.) The Polish-bol-
. Concluded vn Pace 2. Column &.)
AVIATRIX DOES 71 LOOPS
World Record for Women Fliers
Claimed by Miss Bromwell.
NEW YORK. Aug. 15.-Elghty-seven
loops in a two-mile airplane drop,
claimed as a world record for women
disturbed Miss Laura Brownell of
Cincinnati just enough today so' her
first act after landing was a request
that her maid hand up her powder
puff.
Then she asked official observers
how many turns they counted, and
when told they saw 87, exclaimed she
counted over 100.
STATESMAN GETS THREA"
Japanese Field Marshal Bein
Guarded From Danger!
TC'KIO, Aug. 15. Field Marshal
Prince Yamagata, elder statesman
and member of the military council,
has received a letter threatening hi
life for interfering in the politics of
the empire. It was announced today.
He was being guarded.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 86
degrees; minimum, att agr.es.
TODAY'S Fair: northwesterly winds,
l-'orrlgn.
Attack of Bolsheviki on Warsaw Is re
pulaed. Page 1.
Soviet olans alliance with Germany fo
world conquest. Page 1.
Wrangel's reorganization of Crimea forces
recognition, rage -.
Two Irish constables shot and army stores
and wagons burned. Page o.
General Wrangel attributes collapse
Denlklne's army to neglect of military
precautions. Page 2.
Politics.
Unsuccessful attempt made to arrest Cox
for speeding. Page 1.
Cox faces defeat through democratic
split. Page 1.
Ctox maintains vigorous support of treaty.
Page 3. -Washington
republican state committee re
fuses to tako action to prune canamate
list. Page 4.
Domestic.
Less than 1 per cent of 24.000,000 men
registered for war listed as deserters.
Page 1.
Army planes reach Alaska. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Forty-six Mazamas reach Mount Baker's
icy peak. Page 4.
Sports.
Brothers of Buffalo, Ji. Y., excellent golf
ers. Page S.
Five Finns shatter world javelin mark at
Antwerp. Page 1.
Honeymans take intercity lead and Guards
also win. Page S.
Coast League results: Portland 1-0. Seattle
10-7; Salt Lake 1-1, Sacramento 6-4;
San Francisco 1-3, Los Angeles 8-4;
Vernon 1-1. Oakland 0-1. Page 8.
Portland and Vicinity.
Ice shortage is no better In Portland.
Page 1.
Prince Carol of Roumanla visits city.
Page 14.
Exchange depression again upsets Block
market. Page 13.
Man who achieves most is 3-v. man, says
Dr. Brougher at White Temple. Page 14.
Portland becomes leader In furniture
field. Page 5.
Coast Entries Figure Prominently
in Results Though Few
Men Take Firsts.
ANTWERP, Aug. 15. (By the As
sociated Press.) Establishment of a
new world's javelin-hurling record, in
which Finnish throwers won the first
four places and the placing of every
American entered in all other prelim
inary contests featured the opening
of the second Olympiad contests to
day. All four Americans won their heats
i.i the qualifying dash of the 100
meter event, J. V. Scholz, University
of Missouri; Loren Murchison, New
York Athletic club, and Charles W.
Paddock, Los Angeles Athletic club,
made the best time. 10 4-5 seconds.
M. M. KIrksey, Olympic club, San
Francisco, made it in 11 seconds.
Twelve heats wre contested, the first
two runners in each heat qualifying
for semi-finals.
Five Break World's, Mark.
Myrra was winner of the javelin
event. Americans did well in their
morning work with the javelin when
there were no Finnish contestants.
ut failed to keep pace with the first
ix in the afternoon. Five of the Fin
ish hurlers beat the record set at
Stockholm in 1912 by E. V. Lemming.
In the high jump, 150 meters, 400-
meter hurdlers and 800-meter run, all
Americans qualified.
Alex Ponton of Ontario, Canada, was
second in the 100-meter event.
All four American half-milers qual
ified in the 800-meter run. although
none was first. Earl Eby, Chicago
Athletic association, ran third in the
second heat, trailing B. G. D. Rudd of
South Africa, the winner, and Hill of
Great Britain, who was second. The
time, 1:55, was the best of all the
heats.
Lieutenant D. M. Scott. U. S. A.;
Thomas Campbell, Yale university.
and A. B. Sprott, Los Angeles Athletic
club, finished second in their heats.
without extreme effort.
Tack Fails to Qualify.
M. S. Angler of the Illinois Athletio
club was seventh in the elimination
sections of the javelin throw, with
59.27 Vt meters, end J. C. Lincoln Jr. '
of the New York Athletic club, waa
ninth with 57.28 meters. L. A. Han-
niver of Leland Stanford Jr. uni
versity, with 53.2 meters, and A. W.
Tuck of the Multnomah Athletic club,
Portland. Or., with 53.78 meters, failed
to qualify.
A crowd of about 7000 persons wit
nessed the events.
Americans made their presence
known by dominating the cheering.
Thirty Americans adjoining the royal
box lauded each American perform
ance with "U. S. A., U. S. A.. Ameri
ca," spelling out the last word. This
drowned out yells, of other nationals.
Gustavus T. Kirby, of the American
Olympic committee, acted aa cheer
leader.
In the first heat of the qualifying .
section of the 400-meter hurdles, A.
Desch of Notre Dame finished first;
Andre of France was second, ahd J.
K. Norton of the Olympic club, San
Francisco, third. The time was :55 2-5.
In the second heat of the hurdles
Frank Loomis Jr., Chicago Athletio
club, won; Chrlstlems of Sweden was
second and Charles D. Daggs, Los An
geles Athletic club, third. Time :55 2-5.
They also qualified.
Javelin Distance Great.
The first four men in the Javelin
were:
Myrra. 65.78 meters; Peltonman,
63.605 meters; Joahenssen, 63.095 me
ters; Saaristo. 62.395 meters.
Twelve men qualified for the high.
jump by clearing the bar set at the
metric equivalent of six feet. John
Murphy of Portland, H. B. Muller.
San Francisco; R. W. Landon, New
York, and Walter Whalen, Boston,
qualified.
After" 17 heats in the 100-meter
event the field was reduced to 10. of
whom four are Americans. Charles
W. Paddock. Loren Murchison and J.
V. Scholz each made it in :10 4-5-Murchison
was second in his heat and
Edwards of Great Britain tied with
hii at :i0 -.
In the Olympic fencing bouts, first
round, Americans defeated Holland,
ten bouts to six. Captain H. M. Ry
ner, United States army, won all his
bouts with but two touches against
him. In the other bouts France de
feated Holland and Italy defeated
Belgium. Americans, most of whom
are army officers, will fence with the
Frenchmen tomorrow. Other nations
entered are: Denmark, Spain, Great
Britain, Finland. Greece, Portugal.
Sweden. Czecho-Slovakia and Egypt.
The challenge cup "offered by Eng
lish fencers, now held by Belgium, is
to be competed for besides the cus
tomary medals.
ANTWERP, Aug. 15 (By the As
sociated Press.) America was not
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