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( IE OMH RtTXn-VY PKE Tt'IY 1 10ft3 3 AMERICA TO WIN OLYMPIAD Omaha Cripple to Have Benefit Jlartin Sheridan Btrlewt Chancei of the Several Competitor. Actvertlstifii POINTS TO SPARE FOR YANKEES Safe '! t ii' i l Haaaers, Jraarn aad Wlrht Throw era from America l.ead tbe World on Published Reeords of Artaal Per for ma area. NEW TORK, July 1). Martin Sheridan ay: "In looking orer the respective ra orda of the athlete aelected to rejrnent America anil London In the Olympic grume and comparing them with the r. cords of the athlete of England and other n illona. Amrrlci leemi to have nood chance to scora more points In the Hack and f ! than all the other nation co.nbl.ird. Starlit. with the 100 and 20-meter dashe. An erica . e-ni to have one. two. three pla-e cinched wlUt Robertson. Rector. Cartwell, Huff, Camp bell and CloiiRhan. all good tor ten and four-fifth and twenty-two second In b th mints, and there I no man on the other team that ctin beat eleven seconds tiat for the 100 or twenty-two and three-fifth sec ond for the 20. "Taking the V meters, with HI 1mm. Taylor, Mentman and At'.ee. all tf them are urn to do b. ttrr t'nn ffty second rial, and If driven to a hard finish one of th four may do f;irty-nlne second or better. In the SO nieterr, with Bluppird nni Broml ow, who ran In one m nute flfty rour seconds 1 1 I li !a i Ip 'a. 1 1 eppard hav ing had onlv one ea t In. L ght body, Bheehan, Fllg. m . nd Lamer, a'l can do better tl on one ii.inuw fl:iy-ix s c ends, will mak t. e b st t. e Bil.ons or the other foreigners can pu. In ll.e full hustle for a place In this event. For the Long Ran. ' "In the BfiO-metr the fori Igner' seem to have n slisil" ttie bet-t of It. 1 ut with 8hep pard able to go the distance and Hilstead. who locul expcria ti.lnk i the fcreatest nilie runner inc the da of Cannof; lylglubjily. -w'ao. ti Immed the Britons in Alhens, an'.l Su'llvdii. 'Snider1 Coe and Riley. rii".i. ram serms 10 liave a bdter chance of seoilnu In tl.U etnt than he( ever dirt before. . In the live mile there Is a poor chance for our boy to score. Judg ing from time comparison the Kiitona nd Swede eem to have this contest all to themselves. Since Bonhag fcot li In danger of giving out at any lime. Belln eem to be our best man. but Ju icing from his race at Traver Island cn June 1!, the chance are poor of his doing cImj to twenty-flvo minutes, w.ilcli ho will huvs to do to get In the money. "In the Marathon rac Morrlaey, Hayes nd Byan are the men who tan first, sec ond and fourth In the Boston race, and the winners of western and m ddle wesi Marat.ioit rac-s, and Leo Wilton ran a recoid-l.tc a'.: lug race for the first sixteen tnl.es in t.io Boston Marathon; o ihj fchancia o.' c 1-1 LSlory'i being carried to v.c tory I.) ih.s hlHtorlc event looks very blight. In the 110-meter hurdle race no auch field of hurd ers has ever fated a jptarter' gun as Amer.ca has to represent ier In Qarre:ls, Shaw and fcmith.-on, each man being cupab.o of running ll.tet.n mln-, tiies one-fifth seconds, or better. America la sure of all three place In ihl even , tue bett tue fortlgn hurdler tan uo b I g i.tcc.i ni nutes three-fifth second. In tho .0T.eter hurdle, with Bacon and Hlll man, wi.o can do Ilfty-ilve aeeond or bet ter, an.. .1 second string of men who a.'e cayutlj u( runn.ns bett.r than the old record. A.i.er.ca ,s suie of first and second places, aiiJ falsj ha the bjtt chance of third p!uve. In the Field Event. Coming to the field event, starting with the hammer. Flanagan, brimful of con fidence after his record-breaking feat at Torrlngton; McGrath. whose lame knee Is rapidly improving, and who expect to , be allrlght when the time come to tep In the ring In Shepard' Bush, and Glllls, Talbot and Horr, who can do better than ISO feet, the hammer look " won for America. Roe In the ahot-put well. It's a shame t' r him to tHke the prize. He I good for forty-eight feet and better at all time. WHjh Coe, Garrell. Burroughs. Horr and myself. America' Interests will be well taken care of for second and third place. In the discus throws, Greek style, Horr will be an easy winner, being able to -outthrow any man In the contest by five to ten feet, the fight for second and third being even between Garrells and . Dearborn and myself, of America. Jacr vlnen of Finland and Georgantaa and his club mate of Greece. In the Javelin throws Sweden will get all three places In thogj two events, the Javelin being a toy for the Swedish youth a the base ball 1 to the American. The first time an American athlete ever competed In this event or saw a Javelin wa two year ago In Greece. The Swede can throw 180 feet or better In thU event, while our best American can't beat ISO feet. In the broad Jump Dan Kelly, If Jumping In hi Jameattown form, look the winner, with Cooke, Mount Pleasant and O'Connell. all twenty-three feet or better, their atrongeat opponent being Ahearn of Ireland, who 1 doing Wtter than twenty-three feet .and Mllander of Sweden, who ha a record of twenty five feet, but, Judging from Ms jump In " Athena, he haa little chance of getting a place; America look good for two placet In this event. Janprn Are Strong;. In tha high Jump are Porter, Gedney, Patterson and Moffltt, all good six feet, and Porter, who may possibly create a new record under favorablo conditions, their strongest opponent, being Con lxahy of Ireland, the Irish and American champion, who is always good for six feet two Inches oi U-itei. His points' will score for England. , Undoubtedly Con will protest and insist ou his point being counted sep arately for Ireland. America look good for two more place In this event. In the pole vault, pilbert Cooke, BalUU and Nel son. America will hold It own or bettor In thla event, all being good for twelve feet or better. The hop, step and Jump Is an IrWh game, but the Irish prac tice two hop and a Jump not b-ing el lowed, v-lll place, the Irish Jumper at i diaadvamage, and 'fill be In the Amort can' favor. . With Adams and O'Connell they ahould get an even break. Ad urn 1 good for forty-seven feet. Tha standing jump are easy for Kwry. Keller, Adam and myself. Of the twenty-two events the team compete In on track and field, America 1 sure of winning fourteen. Paul Pilgrim will travel all around Europe after th London games, and will possibly compete In Sweden, Germany and Austria. He plana to return to America about September 20. - ' ; .i-.- . '.'S J " -i i-. .;.'. , V ',f. 'fi , .-.. 1 GEORGE GRAHAM. whether they will compete or not. Under the rules of the meet they can enter only as members of the English team. With Ireand lost to England the latter lone what little chanco It ever had to boat America. O'Connor and Con Leahy. h.Di; and high Jumping champion, re flectively; Haynes, the great distance runner, and llorgan, tho weight man, fig ure to make all kinds of trouble for the Yankees In these events. The Americans huve hurdly a man who could defeat the first two, but with them out of It the running Jumps are at their mercy. The American team will win. anyhow, so that It will make little difference In the result whether the Irishmen bolt or not, except that the margin of victory would be greater. The chance- are, how ever, that rather than not compete at all the Irih athletes will fall into line when the time comes and work for England. TENTY-ITVE HUNDRED ENTRIES In the NO CHALLENGE FROM UPTON Sir Thomas Not Yet Heard From by New York Club. SUGGESTS CHANGE IN CONDITIONS London Sporting Paper Announce Proposals that Do Not Exactly Sqnare with the Deed of Gift. Army of Athlete to Take Part i London Olympiad. LONDON, July 11. There are twenty-four countries or colonies competing In the Olympic games, and the number of entries la expected to be In the neighborhood of 2,500. Lord Desborough, president of the British Olympic council, considers the United States the most dangerous rival ol England. It is in the distance runs, walk ing, swimming and diving that he thinks Erjgland has an advantage. Speaking of the coming games, L'ord Desborough Buys: Our arrangements with the Franco-British exposition has secured for us an arena for the games which so far has been un ap proached In size and convenience. As to the prospects of British athletes, It Is not an easy question to answer, but, personally. 1 believe we shall do much Doner man in previous Olympic games. The' country where the games are held naturally has an advantage; the entries, however, are limited In all events, which will help the visiting countries. In field anil track athletes, 1 expect the United States representatives will be very stror.g, and we shall have to do our best to hold our own. Then there are many events in which our foreign visitors start under better auspices than ourselves, perhaps; In throwing thu discus, for example, and the Javelin, both new sports to most Englishmen. The dis tances are measured by meters, not yards. But, as 1 say, on the whole we ougnt to do well, especially u the long-dlBtance run ning, swimming and high diving. In any case, however, though 1 should naturally wish to seo our men as successful as pos sible, 1 do not think strong competition by our foreign visitors, and even defeat of our own representatives, would be anything but good for International sport. Those games have an aspect much wider than the success of any particular nation. They are the expression of the undoubted spread of athleticism among the civilised countries of the world and of the Interna tional character which all sport has beeu assuming during the last quarter of a en- tury. To me this widening In the interest iikrn in manlv exercises la a very good augury, and wo of the British Olympic council wish It every success, even at the cost of the temporary success of our own athletes. The periodical meeting or ine flower of voulh and early manhood ef the competing nations, the representatives, in fact, rif the generation In whose hands the Immediate destinies of these countries lie, is to nie a matter of very great results hereafter. YOUNGEST ONE OF THE ATHLETES IRISH REBELLION IS SERIOUS Hay Pat Raglaad Oat of All Thane f Wlsslsc NEW- TORK. July 11. Another re bellion la threatened In Ireland. The Oaello Athletic association, tha governing body la the Emerald Isle, ha ordered It member to refuse to compete In tha coming Olymplo championship unless tha points they might acora are counted for Irwland not added to those of the rest of the British empire. The Irishman want to compote a uch not aa sub ; Jaota of Oreat Britain, and. accordlngto .' aelo dispatch. It la about a toss up Stxteen-Yrar-Old Boy Who Made the Team as n swimmer. NEW YORK, July 11. The youngest athlete who sailed Tor the Olympic games on the uteamer Philadelphia was Harry Hebner of the Illinois Atnietlc club of Chicago, the greatest aquatic find of the Indoor swimming season of 190S. Hebner Is but 16 years old, and a few months ago was totally unknown, but undjr the care of Instructor Frank Sulli van he entered his competitive career last fall and since then he haa been constantly and prominently before the public. First It was a tank record that he es tablished for the fifty yards print, then a defeat of the speedy Marquard ' Sch warts In a 100 yards race, then a vic tory In the national championships and finally the winning of a place on the Olympic team. Hebner has a brilllau future before him. He has a stroke that experts have pronounced as good aa any een In this country. He U strong and enduring and he has youth. Tt should be remembered that at the age of 16 Daniel had never beaten 1:06 for 100 yards, and here we have a boy of the age W ho crawls his century . under the minute and goes his furlongs well under 1:40. Barring accidents, he should prove a more modern and faster edition of the "human pickerel." American swimmer have great hope In Hebner. He ha been coming very fast of late and there Is every prospect of hi placing In the 100 meter event at the Shepherd' Bush. It 1 a question whether any but.C. M. Daniel and Zoltam d Halmay will be found to beat sixty seconds for 100 yards, and If the Chicago youngster can equal hi recent perform ance, which seems more than likely, he ahould undoubtedly nose Into third place In the classic sprint. We stand for safe advertising. Any other kind is unnecessary. The day when advertising was specu lation is over for the man who knows. A newspaper campaign can be proved out in six towns just as well as in six hun dred. 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He has made more money for adver tisers, in more different lines, than any other man who ever wrote copy. Many of the greatest successes of the past twenty years have been due to his copy and schemes. And he is safe. Experienced enough to avoid the impossible. Able enough to make the possible pay. NEW YORK. July 11. .Cable mesaage from London say that Sir Thoma Llpton 1 about the challeniro again for the America's cup, The Field, a sporting pub lication, announces tho condition as fol "First The new yacht shall be cutter ricked and built under the present uni versal rule of the New York Yacht club. "Second The New York Yacht club shall doBlarnate the size of the yacht which It considers most suitable for the race." Sir Thoma la reported to have expressed tio hopo that his American friend would see their way clear to meet hi wlshe. The size of the boat, he said, wa no ob iect to him. Before challenging. It wao said, Bir Thoma desired to find the entl ment regarding the acceptance of hi chal. lenge. In case a race Is decided upon, he will ask permission to build two boats and race them against each other to select a Shamrock IV. Cornelius Vanderbllt, the president of the New York Yacht club, said that he had heard nothing regarding Sir Thomas Llpton's challenge. Neither did he be lieve that any sentiment existed in the yacht club other than that expressed In the letter sent to Sir Thoma last fall. In which the club Insisted that It would meet yachts built with no other restrictions than those Involved In the "deed of gift" of the America' cup. It was said at the office of the secretary, Q. A. Cormack, that no challenge had bee,n received from Sir Thomas. Mr. Cormack emphatically denied that the cub had accepted a chal lenge. When a formal challenge haa been received It will receive the proper consid eration. A canvass of the prominent mem bers of the club failed to reveal any senti ment In favor of racing under conditions other than have been In vogue. Several expressed themselves as sceptical regarding a challenge this year. They spoke of Sir Thomas In words of commendation, how ever, and expressed a hope that if he again tried for the cup he would desire to do ao under the old conditions. The America's cup wa given under deed of gift which contain but one re striction, that of the length of the water line. It call for a boat pre-eminent for speed and requiring the utmost skill In de signing, construction and management. The Americans have always believed that the cup should be sailed for by the most powerful and fastest boat possible to build. They look upon the America' cup as call ing for speed alone, without regard to com fort or. a Sir Thoma put it, a "whole some and seaworthy type of boat." The English of late have developed the theory that the yachts raced Bhould adopt the universal rule, which makes a scientific comparison of sail, beam, length tnd all other dimensions. On September 25, 19u5, the New York Yacht club declined a challenge from the Koyal Irish Yacht club, which desired to race two sixty-eight-foot boat under New York Yacht club rule. In his challenge Sir Thomas expressed himself believing that this length wa fitted to the limita tion of the cup class. There existed a difference of opinion among the yacht club's members regarding the acceptance ' of these conditions, but the men who financed yacht races In the past put their feet down hard on tha proposition to race under any conditions other than those al lowed by the deed of gift. They said It wa belittling to the cup to accept the chal lenge of a (mall boat. 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When Marquard heard that he wa sold to the Giants, he said that he would quit the game at the end of thla year to manipulate a chicken farm at Cleveland. It is thought the etory of the 111,000 deal ha turned hi head, and he anticipate a part of the purchase money and a big raise In salary In order to get him to re main In the game. HOTELS AND SUMMER ItKSORTS. each Ml U Be want ads to bouat your business. KETCHELL OUT AS HEAVYWEIGHT Staaler Thinks He la Big Enough to Beat Barn. SAN FRANCISCO, July 11. Stanley Ketchel expects to fight Tommy Burns for the heavyweight championship of the world before the end of the year. Ketchel says: "I have shown that I am worthy of a match with any fighter on earth. JubI now l weign 17s pounds and am getting heavier every day, even while I am train ing. I follow a milk diet closely all the time and am always In the pink of condl- ' tion. 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