Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-24
The E. H. 7owle Co.,, 2s West Main St

tions against unfair treatment Swe- den has withdrawn all her men from the Greco Roman wrestling contests on the ground that one of the Swedish representatives, Anderson, was unfair ly deprived of bout. The other events of the games seem unimportant compared with the erup ton over the 400 meter race. The POO meter sprint was a splendid contest. Kerr, the Canadian, won, as was an- ticipated, but the Americans, Cloughen and Cartmell, gave him a fierce strug- gle, the three finishing almost togeth- CT. Kerr received great ovation.
 The standing high jump was almost exclusively an American event. Ray Ewry, New York Athletic club, won in the final, topping the bar at 5 feet 2 inches. The Greek competitor, Tsiclitaras, was an inch below him, tieing with J. A. Biller of the Brook lyn Central Y. NJ. c. A. Holmes gain ed a certificate of merit for jump of five feet.
 Members of the American commit tee sat in room in their hotel, the most disgusted lot of Americans ever gathered together in England. Com. missioner James E. Sullivan was the spokesman, and the others upheld what he said about the 400 meter race.
 "Carpenter at the crack of the pis. tol." said Mir. Sullivan, took the leaL and did the only thing he could to and win, and that was to take all the run. ming out of Halswelle in the first 300 yards. As result he gave the spec tators the fastest 300 yards ever seeh on the Stadium. The 220 yards he covered in g seconds, and at 300 yards he had Halswelle out Carpen- ter had the pole, but he did not run close to it. He ran we'll out at the first bend and, coming to the second bend leading to the straightaway, he ran wide, as he had perfect right to do AY
 "Halswelle, instead of taking advan- tage of thls chance and cutting in to the post, remained in his old position. At that point, probably 1l0 Nrds from home, Carpenter turned his head to see who was there, and then, swing ing up the stretch, gave the English public a 1l0 yards they had not seen equaled this week. Halswelle was all out before the stretch was reached, and America had found in Carpenter q wonder for the distance"
 London Times Defends Decision.
 The Times Olympic reporter says of the 400 meter race:
 Tt certainly seemed as if the Amer ican had run the race on definite and carefully thought out plan. It was not as if Carpenter. who forced Hals- welle to run wide and elbowed him se- verely as he tried to pass him. had himself taken wide curve at the bend and then run straight on. He ap- peared rather to run diagonally, cross ing in front of the Englishman. SO that he was obliged to lose several yards and finally could only run on the extreme outside edge of the track.
 That is a fair and impartial account of what happened so far as it could be judged from the stand. It is diff. ficult to see how the council could have decided otherwise than as they did.
 The only thing that can be said is that interfering with another runner is considered fair in America and that Carpenter saw nothing wrong in act ing on that principle. It Is much to be hoped that both countries will agree to say as little in the future as possi- ble about a most unfortunate incident which none can regret more than the English