Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-31
HaIpin's Charges Against the
Athlete to Be Probed.
MIx.UP AS TO L0NGB0AT
Papke and Kelly Fight Ten Rounds
to q Draw.
YALE DEFEATS G. W. US oUINT
Spectators Wait Three Hours for
Game to Begin-Attell Favorite
in His Mill With Moran.

NEW YORK, December 31.-The con-
troyersy over the selection of Matt Hal
pin as manager of the American athletic
team bound for the Olympic games in
London has developed several new fea-
lures.
Haipin's vigorous reply to his enemies
brought many new angles of the fight
from cover. Ray c. Ewry. the New York
A. c. broad jumper. will be asked to
show cause why he should not be dis
qualified before q special meeting of the
registration committee Of the A. A. U.
as q direct result OF the Halpin state
ment. Haipin will also be summoned to
substantiate his charges. Ewry is &C
cused of giving exhibitions at circuses
and meetings unregistered by the A. A. U.
Regret Of the Athletes.
A well-informed member Of the Irish
American A. c. whose word is unques-
toned declared:
THE Irish-American A. c. committee
as a majority is not. and never was. in
harmony with the action of the clubs
protest against Halpin. Summing the
situation up. they are sorry the affair
ever reached the newspapers. and there
are many who assert no protest should
have been made
Speaking for himself. the same man
said;
II would have gladly forfeited $1,000
rather than see Halpin make his state
ment. However. I realize he was forced
to II. and do not blame him. The out
come IL hard to foresee, but 1t has cast
reflection on American athletics which
only time will efYace.''
Other individual members of the club
did not take this sanguine view. and
rumors of suits for libel are many on
both sides.
President James e. Sullivan of the A.
A. u, would not discuss the matter at all
yesterday. The Amateur Athletic Union
has practically nothing to do with the
fight being waged against Halpin, but
is prepared to stand by him now as in the
past.
Colleges Watching Matters.
The colleges are watching matters with
an interested eye, and II the fight against
Halpin keeps up the college men are likely
to set together. put up the money and no
tify the American committee that they
stand ready to send strong team to the
Olympic games. This is not q mere ru-
NOR. The matter is being seriously con-
sidered 1t Yale, Pennsylvania and Prince
ton.
The colleges took little interest in the
Athens meet for the reason that 1t was
held at a time that would have made it
necessary for the college athletes to for
sake the chance Of helping their own uni
versities ct the intercollegiate meet, to
say nothing Of dropping their studies for
long period. In order to go to Greece.
The Londop meet however. takes place
in the summer, making II convenient for
all the college cracks to take nice lit
Tie vacation jaunt to London. That is
why the college boys have such a deep
interest In the coming Olympic meet.
Trouble Over Longboat.
There is more trouble ahead for the
Ykmerican athletes who will compete in the
Nysipic sanles in London next summer.
WArd comes down from the north that the
rivG& Canadian athletic associations have
fbuIAd the Ratchet and reinstated the
treat Indian runner, Longboat, so that he
en- be q Competitor in the Marathon race
at the Olympic games. This would be all
right. only Longboat is at present under
the haDs0f the Amateur Athletic Union
Of United States, and under the A.
A.C. laws President Sullivan says that
no Anne rican can compete against Long
boat in London unless the United States
association refnstates him.
~. Suliogon has taken a firm stand in
The matter, and II. is up to the Indian to
regain his good standing In the A. A. U.
II the English committee fails to sup
port the Amateur Athletic Union in this
matter, there may be serious complica-
lions. - .-.-..