The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-03
.BR|TONS THINK AMERICA UNFAIR Is Always Expected Athletes tc
 Turn a Trick HUNTING FOR TREACHERY This May Account for Discrimination in Olympic Games-Jimmy Britt
 To Fight Engishman-other
 Sporting Matters.
HUNTING FOR TREACHERY
BY RICHARD DAHLGREN.

London. August 2.=The United States may well be proud of the splendid company of young athletes she sent over to compete in the Olympic games. One thing may be said without fear of contradiction, that every American in London was glad to be known as a compatriot of the sturdy lot of young sters who carried the stars and stripes to brilliant victory under the most ad- verse conditions.
 The story of the Olympic games has already been so thoroughly well told in the news columns of the papers on the other side of the pond that it would be a waste of time for me to attempt to go into the details.
 It Is to be greatly regretted that so much i'll feeling has been engendered between the American and English par ticulary. The Americans believe, and with good reason, that they have been discriminated against from the very be- ginning. As a matter of fact, to speak of British fair play" these days to an American athlete Is to bring out either loud and sarcastic Flaw, haw," or a
 
 ing to the frame of mind of the man to whom one Is speaking.
 The discrimination against the Amer jeans has been due to two causes. In the first place the average Britisher is firmly convinced that the American sportsman, whether amateur or profess sional, athlete or horseman, is tricky and willing to resort to any method. fair or unfair in order to win. Of course this is absurd, for no athletes who competed at the olympiad played straighter or won fairer than those who wore the stars and stripes. But the British were always looking for tricks" on the part of the Americans, and, naturally, found them even when there were none.
 Another thing is that the average Briton cannot realize that a man of any other nation is as good as an English man in any line of sport which an Eng fish man takes up Therefore when with the innate suspicion of American trick ness, they saw their best were con- stantly beaten by the men from ths states it became settled conviction that the Americans were winning, not because they were the better men, but because of unfair methods.
 Thus 1t was that every technicality was employed against the Americans, that every circumstance out of the strict ordinary was looked on as evil dence of sharp practice and that on more than one occasion absolute rank injustice was done the American ath- letes.
 That they won so splendid and de- cided a victory in field and track ath- achievements.
 The American team proposes to give the continent a taste of it's quolity. The Irish American Athletic club team to- day started for Ireland. From the Green Isle they will attend the meeting at Stockholm, Norrkoping and Malo, and may go to France before their re- turn home. The team Is made up of Robertson, Porter, Cohn, J. P. Sullivan. Bromilow, Talbot. Horr, Cloughen, Kel- ly, Hayes, Sheridan and Flanagan.
 Cartmell, Taylor and Sheppard are at the meet at Glasgow today.
 Another bigger team goes to Paris. This will include. Rector, sherman, Cartmell Lightbody, Pilgrim, Trubo, Eisele, Griffin, Burroughs Carpenter, f1dInlllOIl, oihitiooh oio PAOo ably Garrels, Ramey Merriam and Gil- bert. Pilgrim will manage the team. as Halpin was compelled to return home this week. Trainer Mike Murphy accompanies the men.
 With pretty much all sporting inter est concentrated on the Olympic games, little attention has been paid to other lines of sport recently, but there are some other things which should inter- est Americans. For instance, fight has been arranged between Jimmy Britt. former American lightweight champion, and Johnny Summers. Tho Englishman wanted side bet of 5000. but Britt Is content to fight for the purse. The date and place for the fight has not yet been definitely fixed.
 Jack Johnson, the negro heavyweight, has been matched to fight Ben Taylor at Plymouth some time in August While Taylor is not regarded as hay ing any particular class, he will proba- bly be strong enough to give us a line on the negro compared with Tommy Burns.
 The gentlemen of the Philadelphia cricket team are doing good Work. While they are not so strong as the best British teams, they have been playing a fine all-around game, and only the very best cricketers are able to do much a painst th em