The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1906, Page 8

) _THE WORLD: WEDNES DAY EVENING. MAY 28, aes ROBERT EDGREN, adds Se Evening World's Bee eeat with | the American Athletic Team Gives First Detailed Account of the Great Contests at Athens. No American newspaper has presented a complete, connected $tory of the great athletic contests at Athens, in which the ~ United States team carried off the championship. Mr, Edgren, who accompanied the team from New York, and has just re- turned ahead of them, has prepared the following graphic review of the struggles day by day that resulted in our splendid victory. Postal and cable facilities at Athens broke down completely under the pressure of the enormous volume of business that joured in during the games, and this is the first article in chronological detail to reach this country. | BY ROBERT EDGREN. (The Evening World’s Special Athletic Expert with : the American Team at Athens.) ‘ } When sailed from Athens, the scene of the great Olympl fter the world-famous contests were concluded, the athletes, losers alike, were slowly redistributing themselves over the sterday a Bah g with a Surface. Athens, which had been bu' onfusion of strange tongues, was disgorging its vast ing crowd by very craft that could float. Each outgoing steamer, from the great liners ‘0 the condemned hulk that carries on a precarious passenger traffic along the Mediterranean shores, was jammed to the limit. In all the mixture of Oriental and Occidental languages three fam: a sounds were heard everywhere. They were “America” jan” and “Sherring.” America beat all the world combined bne athletic events on the Olympic programme of track Of twenty- and field sports, And our total score of 75 points overwhelmed Sweden, nearly three to one. rd of us before the clash was over, qwe won eleven. second on the list, by urks and Egyptians HHERIDAN A HERO. ‘0 it was no wonder that even| s split his name In two and accented the! fn his own right. He was heavlest and three seconds (19 ts), with . And Sheridan threw th Tr seen {it thrown before— scus ts almc fetish — s a Nervous Ti ter view, phel yelled, Greek Soldier Waved Our Flag The Wonderful Sta i wARVEL OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES DESCRIBED IN DETAIL BY ROBERT EDGREN "SHERRING ae INNING ‘THE GREAT ATHLETIC CLASSIC, THE MARATHON 25- MILE RACE pya . Sensation of the meeting =i Paul ay rity 5 125 Vhe Fatal Weddine MARTIN a SHERIDAN HAD th San onts'| CARRYING AWAY Maude Adams ‘i ye i's s 5 PRIZES THAN i 7 7 = {© DID WINNING | : THEM. When Sherring of Canada won the great MIARATHON RACE Prince George of Ce ran with the length ‘e the Stadion NRE to the finish hne. Time To-nizht. MAN supe iy 3 re, | AND wey u. S. Sweden 1 ow Greece - Ireland Germany Finland i Sabred a Path for Runners. In the Name of Sense, VE ae Ot - i DE NG Beles at f Bs that good common sense (INE GorHAN 54 : : of which all of us have a share, how can you continue | to buy ordinary soda crackers, stale and dusty as they must | be, when for. 5¢ you can ge ey get METROPOLIS ‘s ce : ey : 3 Md 5 Ci VSS Bxrinaanke Pista ba i KOLLER SIATING RINK | Uneeda Biscuit a WES Ee jest Q fresh from the oven, protected i | St HH teem of By ts | : ye a | eee from dirt by a package the Bl veils ete ee ; 8 Vy very beauty of which makes MEssuisers am ra teense x) Harry ¥ Old Ievace from t Ke you hungry. L WEST END Bros tyrne ines 4 FIELDS 13s Peas « MR. HOPKINSON i i NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY x Pa T A Surprise eG fd < —o piShORTING:: AMUSEMENT: mm we N.. 1PPO ROME J AMMERSTEIN’S t t | No WHS OF WATINGE EVERY DAY" 80, O00 |! for a he The Greeting to the Victor. 1 oy malsaine EDIE FOX, HORAC GOLDS ttn eh iy " ‘ cur PLUSGING ho ees a ink LHOMPSON & DUNDYS GREATER ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 1 Hinto tHe trek ae Sherzit ; LUNA PARK Xvi ANDREW MACK r BAO, Mats. Tod. | i . te ane eNaY, INLAND, Wek SOTHERN | are DREAMLAND funtagancrsgers aur lene Girardot METROPOLITAN ” ROLLER RIN Thiv Marve Wreklh NOW OPEN. vellotiace the Worlit's an taoH 8a. a ROLLER SKA Hest Hand UK) 0. toS Stoll PM aa Mat. To-day, 250-50c. tue Clansman and 7th aves, “OVER 25 YEARS, Consultation free, VERY LOW ignore jundaya, © 10E WEBER “Li The Jays land The Squaw lof the Golden had West, preceded” by -TWIDDLE-TWADDLM. n wonderful events. Our boys, F: ‘the quarters in a carriage lie