The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-07-17
By Announcing no Champion
ship in Olympic Games
BEING HELD in LONDON
Each Country Can Figure It's Own
Chances for the Premier Athletic
Position According to Its
Own Methods.

London, July l7.-On account of cri..
icisms against the method OF scoring,
the British Olympic association has de.
cided that there be no championship in
the Olympic games held in London on
the sports in the Stadium. Gold, silver
and bronze medals in each competition
will be the only awards.
Captain Jones, secretary OF the asso.
citation, who gave out this information,
says; "The newspapers OF the different
countries have to decide the matter to
their own satisfaction. The Americans
probably more than any other nation
would have cause for complaint If we
attempted to award the championship.
The distance TO the United States is
great and we did not expect the Ameri.
cans to have as many entries as the
United Kingdom. In such events as
pigeon shooting and lawn tennis, Amer
lea is not represented. Therefore, if the
points were awarded for every event,
the United Kingdom could have a walIs
over"
Up to this morning, counting points
as in America, the United States leads
with 81 points. The United Kingdom
is second with 20, and the others in the
following order: Sweden 5, Greece 3,
Canada |, Norway I and Australia /.
Counting all the events as the English
would do it, and the United Kingdom
leads the United States 20 to 8. The
games include yachting, foot ball, hoe
key, lacrosse and boxing and will not
be finished until winter is over; in these
the United States has no entries.
James H. Sullivan, American commits
sioner to the Olympic games, made the
following statement last night:
I'VE came here, as we went to Paris
and Athens, with field team: and are
making a fight in the field events, car
ing nothing for the other sports. We
asked that the championship trophy be
put up for the field sports separately, |
but the request was not acceded to- So |
we will simply take the score in the |
field events, counting first points, sec
ond 3 points and third point, and fig |
IRE out the American score on this |
basis"
Another Record Broken To-day.
The final in the javelin throw to-day |
was won by Lemmong, of Sweden, who
threw l79 feet and l01a inches. This |
beats his own Olympic record.
Apology to United States.
Commissioner Sullivan has received
reply to the letter which he sent TO
Lord Desborough, chairman of the coun-
ell of the British Olympic association,
protesting against certain of the rules
governing the contests, and referring to
other matters in connection with the
games.
In his reply Lord Desborough opens
with an opology to the Americans for
the failure to use a single American flag
in the decoration of the Stadium on the
opening day, the omission to do whicn,
he says, has since been remedied. He
then takes up the complaints of the
Americans regarding the conduct of the
sports The question Of the pole vault
was referred to the amateur athletic
which decided not to allow
the Americans to dig hole for the
pole, but acceded to the request to
have pits filled with sand for landing
on.
With regard to the question of heat
drawings, Mr.. Desborough pointed out
in his letter that the drawings nad al
ready been made in the various heats
and could not be altered, although this
had not been asked for. The athletic
association, he said, had invited the
American committee to have man in
the arena during the progress of the
events in which America was interested,
and Mr.. Halpin, the American manager,
had been appointed to this post.
After reading Lord Desborough's let
ter. Commissioner Sullivan replied that
if tine drawing were already made, the
Americans would like to see them be-
fore the day ON which the events were
to be contested, privilege which here
tofore had not been accorded them.
England beat America in the tug
war in one pull. The event was pro-
tested but the protest was thrown
out.