At the Olympic games, at Athens, last Wednesday, Lieutenant Hawtrey of England easily won the five-mile race, the greatest event of the day in the very fast time of 26 minutes 11 4-5 seconds. He was more than a lap ahead of Dahl of Sweden, the second man.
The standing broad jump was won by R. C. Ewry of N. Y. A. C., with a jump of 3 meters and 30 centimeters.
Goude, a Frenchman, won the pole vault, with a vault of 3 meters and 40 centimeters. Glover, from Chicago, got third place in this event.
C. M. Daniels, N. Y. A. C., won the final heat in the 100-meters swimming race in 1 minute 13 seconds.
In the preliminary heats of the 800-meter race J. D. Lightbody, of Chicago University and P. H. Pilgrim, N. Y. A. C., secured first places. E. B. Parsons, of Yale, was second in his heat.
W. A. Schick '05 won his heat in the preliminaries of the 100-meter race.
Yesterday only unimportant events took place, in none of which Americans secured places.
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