Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-25
AT AN END
America Captured the Last Event in inc Olympic Games This
 Morning
RELAY RACE OURS

London, July 25.-Am1d the cheers
 Of several hundreds of his country
 men Halswelle the English runner,
 this morning, walked over" in the
 final of the 400 metre (4372 yards)
 fiat race in the Olympic games which
 was run originally last Thursday and
 won by J. c. Carpenter, Cornell uni
 versity, but declared void by the
 judges on the allegation, which has
 been denied by the Americans, that Carpenter fouled Halswelle Car penter was disqualified for compet- ing again and J. B. Taylor, Irish American A. C., and w. c. Robbins, of Cambridge, Mass withdrew and would not run to-day.
 Halswelle didn't really walk, he actually ran hard in an effort to es- tablish a new Olympic record. His performance was very great dis appointment to his friends. It was firmly beleived that the most talked of athlete in the stadium, until the Marathon racers replaced him in this regard, would clip at least fraction of second off the record of 49 1-5. Instead it took Halswelle fully 50 seconds to cover the distance He started hard, but just as in the case Of last Thursday he was all out when he came to the stretch after rounding the turn where all the trouble in the previous race occurred. A great cheer went up when Halswelle finished, and the flag to donate British victory. Halswelle had done what he beleived to be right, but the experts felt that he has hardly justified his pre- dictions that he was able to beat Carpenter and Robbins. both of whom made better time on Thursday than the English runner made to-day.
 The running hop. step and jump was the only other event of the morning. Ahearn, United Kingdom, with AS feet 3% inches; Lawson, Norway, 47 feet PA inches, and Me Donald, Canada, 46 feet inches, qualified for the final, doing respec- lively 4S feet 11A inches and AS feet 5A inches. Lawson was third | with AZ feet 2% inches, Bricker, Canada, with 46 feet 8 inches, and Platt Adams, New York A. C., with 46 feet ? inches. were awarded cer- tifcates of merit for their jumps.
 Several Americans, including F. c. | Irons, Chicago A, A.: Martin ]. Sher- | idan, Irish-American A. O., and D. R. | sherman, Dartmouth university. | competed. but their jumps were be- hind the leaders and were not meas ured.
 Dorando, the Italian runner, who was assisted yesterday to the tape in the finish of the Marathon race and who has quite recovered from the strain of his awful effort. de- sired to-day to lodge a protest against the giving of this race to John J. Hayes, Irish-American A. O., on the ground that he had been in- terfered with by the officials of the course and that if he had been left alone he could have finished without assistance. His protest, however. would have come too late for con sideration and he therefore did not enter it.
 John J. Hayes. the Marathon win ner, visited the house of commons this afternoon. He was introduced to a number of the members, who con graduated him.
 Hayes is walking somewhat stiffly to-day. He said he was rather foot sore, but otherwise well. There was fairly large attendance at the sta- ulum this afternoon to witness the Ii concluding contest of the Olympic games and the distribution of prizes. The silver medalists received their tokens from the Duchess of Rutland. lt The winners of the bronze medals were given their prizes by Catherine. s Duchess of Westminster, while the ] diplomas of merit and the commence le rative medals were presented by Lady C Desborough.
 Porro. Italy, won the lightweight | | Graeco-Roman wrestling; Orion. Rus sia. second, and Linden, Finland. third.
 The middleweight of the Graeeo- 1, Roman wrestling was won by Marten- , sen. Sweden. with Anderson, Sweden. i third.
 In the final of the 1,5O0 metre z swimming race. Taylor of the United ' Kingdom was first. Battersby of the . United Kingdom second, and an Aus l, tralian was third. !
 The hnal of the 1.600 metre relay ! race was easily won by the American z team In 3:2s z-5. The German team vas second and Hungary was third This Is the last event of the Olympic ports and the stars and stripes was i, ne last flag to bA officially unfB~s-d ' Bouncing a victory.