Arizona republican., 1908-07-24
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on Saturday at noon Carpenter is
disqualified"
I When they heard the decision the
I members of the American committee
met and passed resolution ordering
the men not to run Saturday James
| Sullivan, the American commissioner
| for the games, Barlow S. Weeks.
b. McCabe, Gustavus Kirby, Everett
c. Brown and Alonzo Stage, members
of the American committee, sat in
their room in the hotel this evening
the most Disguised lot of Americans
ever gathered in England.
Commissioner Sullivan was the
spokesman and the others upheld what
he said. Let us in the first place,
said Sullivan, discuss the arrange
ments of the track. 1t was unfair, es-
ipecially to Taylor, and apparently the
arranging was done by man who did
not want all the contestants to get a
fair start. Taylors position caused
him to get away yards behind which
he could never regain
Now, for the race. Carpenter at
the crack of the pistol took the lead
and did the only thing he could do
and win, that was TO take all the run
ming cut of Halsewell in the first 300
yards. As a result he gave the spec
tators the fastest 800 yards ever seen
at the stadium. The 220 yards he COW
cred in % seconds and at 300 yards he
had Halsewell out. Carpenter had the
pole, but he did not run close to it.
He ran well out at the first bend.
and coming to the second bend lead
ing to the straight away. he ran wide
as he had a perfect right to do.
''Halscwell. instead of taking advan-
tage of the chance of cutting into the
post, remained in his old position. At
that point, probably 10 yards from
home, Carpenter turned his head to
see who was there and then, swinging
up the stretch, he gave the English
public 10 yards they had not seen
equalled this week Halsewell was all
out before the stretch was reached.
The Americans have found in Carpen
ter a wonder at distance.
Never in my life. and l have been
attending athletic meetings for thirty
one years, have | witnessed a scene
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manlike and unfair as that in which
the officials participated. When Car
penter started to leave HalseweI be-
hind the officials cried foul in unison
and raised their hands and hats, while
the announcer ran around also yelling
foul Furthermore. they did an I'M
sportsman like act in running up the
track in an endeavor to stop Carpenter
coming through and deliberately and
meanly broke the tape so as not to
give him the honor.
They practically declared that it
was no race. without authority. There
was but one man in the arena who
had authority to do that and he was
the referee. The referee did not do
so, but a lot of excited officials ran
about screaming foul no race 1t
was their decision that was announced.
Suppose Carpenter and Robbins had
met with an accident, would it still
be declared no race? If the officials
conducting the Olympic sports had
any spirit of good fellowship and treat
ed our boys as we would have treated
them if they had gone to America,
our men would have gone out and run
the race over again; but they will not.
The race was as fair as any race ever
run.
I'VE never said a word when two
Englishmen tried to line up in front
of Eisele in the race last week, nor
when Deacon Wilson tried to run
down Sheppard, things which they
glory in over here and which their pa
pers laud them for doing. Again. in
the 500 meters, Crawford went in to
kill Sheppard off to allow Just. his
team mate, to win, but they could not
do it. If they had we would not have
for they believe in doing
those things over here, actions that
would be condemned as a mean trick
in America"
The formal announcement of the
American committee is as follows:
I'VE have decided to protest against
the decision as unfair because the Of
ficials declared no race without con-
The American committee
further announced tonight, that al
though Carpenter and Robbins would
not get Olympic medals. they would
receive medals from the American COM
mittee and they would be credited with
the win IN America.
Committeeman McCabe said the
breaking of the tape was done under
the influence Of 10000 people who fill
ed the stands and who were inflamed
by the games, the officials and the
1T was no surprise to
me-" he said. "in view of the state
mcnts of the morning papers that
IIalscwell had been pocketed at Ath-
ems and that today's race would be
by the people. 1t is fair to
assume, therefore, that the audience
was ready to denounce an American
victory in the 400 meters race and that
The officials were influenced by that
fact"
Carpenter. a bright, quiet, young
American who does not look as
though he could do trick, and who,
his team mates say, would be the
asst to resort to fouling to win med
ais, thus describes the race:
AS we approached the last bend
Robbins had the pole and was leading
by a yard. l made my effort there.
[ certainly ran wide, as l have done
very time l have been on the track.
IIalsewell had lots of room to pass