The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-07-22
Yankee athletes
PROTEST BR|T0NS
AMERICANS RAISE A HOWL ON
TUG-OF-WAR OPPONENTS
SPIKED FOOTWEAR.
QUIT CONTEST AND
APPEAL TO JUDGES
United Kingdom Athletes Are Alleged
Offenders in Struggle - United
States Swimmers Score Victories
In the Swimming Events.

States Swimmers score Victories
In the Swimming Events.
London, July 18.-The American
athletes are thoroughly disguised with
the treatment accorded them by the
officials of the Olympic games.
The secrecy with which the draw.
ings for the track events were made
and the result of this system, whereby
the best American runners were put In
the same heats, was bad enough, they
say, but now the unfairness in the tug
ofwar Friday between an American
and a. United Kingdom team, In which
the officials allowed the United King.
dom team to compete with prepared
shoes, contrary to all the rules, has
disheartened the American contestants.
James E. Sullivan, American commits.
sioner to the games, has entered Wig
orous protest, and 1T is hoped that In
the interest of the success OF future
Olympiads the higher officials will do
something to stop the unfairness with
which the Americans allege the Of
| ficials of the Amateur Athletic associar
ton, who are conducting the games,
are treating their visitors.
Pole Vauiters Are Abashed.
The Amateur Athletic association
has refused also to allow the pole vaul-
tiers to dig a hole for their poles, al
though the Americans claim this has
been the practice at all previous re-
vivals of the Olympic games.
The great event of the early after
noon was the final in the ten-mile
walk. In this event G. e. Larner,
United Kingdom, broke the record by
doing nine miles in hour, minutes,
| 81 As seconds and ten miles in l hour,
Is minutes, 81 2.5 seconds. The latter
record is nearly two minutes inside
the previous amateur record for this
distance. E. J. Webb, United King
dom. who was second, cut off seven
seconds from the same record. The
rest of the field was outclassed. Spen-
GER United Kingdom, finished a bad
third. England thus adds another win
to her score for all the Olympic games
and nine points to her score in the
contest with America for supremacy
in field sports.
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America protested the tug-of-war
soon after Greece and Germany with
drew from this contest, and the first
pull was between the American team
and the second team of the United
Kingdom. The protest was made on
the ground that the United Kingdom
team, contrary to the regulations,
wore prepared shoes The American
team lost the first pull.
The American team had two more
pulls, the conditions being the best
two out of three, but in view OF the
cause for their protest they decided
to retire. The American team was
composed of w. G. Burroughs, Chicago
A. A.; A. K. Dearborn, New York A.
c.; John ]. Flanagan, Irish-American
A. c.; M. J. McGrath New York A. c.;
Ralph Rose, Olympic A. c., San Fran
cisco; Lee J. Talbot, Irish-American
A. c.; w. w. Coe, Jr, Boston A. A.,
and NJ F. Horn, Irish-American A. G..
The English team, who are members
of the Liverpool police force, wore an
immense shoe which could not under
any circumstances be used for ordin-
airy purposes In addition to this every
man had the heels of his shoes in
cased in steel which sank into the turf.
Americans Victors in Swim.
London, July 1S.-C. NJ. Daniels,
New York A. c., was an easy winner
in the fifth heat of the 100-meter swim.
Daniels time was minute, 5 AS Sec
onds.
The sixth heat of the 10O-meter
swim was won by Harry ]. Hebner,
Illinois A. c., in minute, II seconds.
The ninth heat of the 1O0-meter swim
was won by L. G. Rich, Brookline
Swimming club, in 1 minute, IA 80
seconds. The second heat in the 100
, meter swim was won by Scheff, Aus
g tria. in minute, II As seconds. c. D.
4 Trubenbach, New York A. c., was
l fourth and did not qualify for the final
f The fourth heat of this swim was won
= by Julin, Sweden, in l minute and IL
seconds. Robert 3. Foster, Chicago
= A. A., was fourth and did not qualify
for the final. The fourth heat of the
5,00O-meter cycle race was won by
Drackenstein, Holland, in 8 minutes
: AZ As seconds. G. G. Cameron, Irish
, American A. c., was second, but die
! not qualify for the final. The fina
r. of the 100-meter back stroke swim was
r won by Biebersrein, Germany, in
q minute, "a 3-5 seconds; Dane, Den
/ mark, was second, and Haresnape
United Kingdom, was third.