Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-08
TELL OF RAW
 DEAL THEY GOT
" Anything to Beat the Tanks , Was tbe Watchword of the
 English Officials.

said James E. Sullivan, the Ameri- can commissioner to the Olympic games recently held in London, when he arrived from Liverpool yester- day on the steamer Cedric,
 MT Sullivan's criticism of the con- duct of the Olympic games was af- frmed by Matthew P Halpin, the manager of the American team, who also returned yesterday. Mir Hal pin said that an attempt was made to outlaw the Americans and that 1t probably succeeded.
 It was said yesterday by men who had been to London to witness the games that a movement was on foot to proclaim J. c. Carpenter of Cornell university, winner of the 400 meter race, notwithstanding the decision of the Olympic officials giving the race to Halswelle, the Englishman, on an alleged foul by Carpenter.
 Commissioner Sullivan said: Great credit should be given our boys. The American people should, I think, present a loving cup to Hayes. He has proved himself the greatest long distance runner this country has ever produced. I do not think it is entirely fair to criti- else the whole British public for the unfair treatment which we received, but the treatment accorded us by the officials at the games was, to say the least, rotten. There were four English officials who were es- pecially prominent in according this unfair treatment. They were Dr Bulger, Mir Andrews, MT Fisher and Mir Davidson. Andrews, as chief clerk of the course during the Mara thon race, showed himself up in a particularly obnoxious manner. There are photographs to show just how he helped the Italian runner across the line when the Italian was unable to get across first by his own efforts. Lord Desborough, who was the chief official, is a truly sports manlike fellow. However, he knows almost nothing about aIsateur ath- letics in the manner in which he should know them to hold as respon, sible a position as that which he had.
 In my 30 years connection with amateur sports, never saw any thing so raw as the manner in which Carpenter was disqualified in | the 400 meter race. That a plan had been cooked up to do us out of that event, even before the race was run, was very apparent. If our athletic association should attempt tul t1kt H. manner in which the English acted with us, the American press would drive us out of business in a jiffy.'' MT Sullivan said that the English people will suffer athletic degener- ation.
 Mir Halpin said: We were turn ed down in all our protests and they have tried to outlaw us and prob ably succeeded, but we got more than we expected and are all we'll satisfied.
 When an American flag was to | be raised 1t would take 12 or Is minutes for the English to get it up. When it was time for the rais- ing of their own flag, up went their flag in a few seconds. When the Italian flag was raised right after the Marathon race. there was a ter rife outburst of applause. When, a little later, Hayes was carried around as victor, the applause was very, very slight clapping of a few hundred hands. In the face of all this, our boys went at their work in good spirits and with even more determination, if possible, to win out than they would otherwise have had"
 During the Marathon race signs were hung out announcing the run- ners in one, two. three order al stages of every five miles, but when Hayes. the American. got into third | place. signs were shown announcing only the first and second men Cues tions arose from all over, Who is No 3?'
 English prejudice showed itself in trivialities, nagging and spying | The English will always remember | this beating Whenever a British winner was announced their flae went up quite promptly, but if the winner was an American it required about IS minutes to raise the Amer. ican flag.
 As the delegate representative oi 1 President Roos sevelt President Sulli van should have had a place oi honor. but he was obliged to sit fir the grandstand If an Englishmar had come here in a similar capacity | he would never have been allowed to sit in the grRndstand.
 The Englishmen did not win s place in the field events, with tn, exception of an Irishman, who wor for them the hop, skip and jump ! This shows that English athletics is in a bad way and needs reOrgan izing. No Englishman in the Mara thon finished in the first 10.
 sheppard was a Git of surpris, in the mile. It had not been woI before by an American since 1888 For two years sheppard had no gone that distance, He would no enter 1t until his friends had dem onstTated to him by comparison o his own records with those of other, that he could win. He finished liki a racehorse.
 At the HOO yard turn he crep up. He ran two yards behind VII son for a long distance. but whel they cut into the straizhtaway .h.
 put on more speed. and finished magniicently-
 The quarter mile race was per fectly fair and Carpenter never in terfered with Ha1sWeIle- The Amer icans had no eompefnor in the vall or the javelin- I should say l would take a good baseball. playe 10 make a iavelin thraweT. I wouldn't have done for an Americai