The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-24

morning papers that Halswelle had been pocketed at Athens and that to- days race would be watched by the that the audience was ready to de- nounce an American victory in the 400 metres race and that the officials were influenced by this fact'
 i Carpenter, bright and quiet young American, who does not look as though he could do the trick and who. his teammates say, would be the last one to resort to fouling to win medals, thus described the race:
 As we approached the last bend, Robbins had the pole and was leading by yard. made my effort there and l certainly ran wide, as have done every time l have been on the track. Halswelle had lots of room to pass me on either side.
 "It Is ridiculous to talk of team boring or pocketing as good a man as Halswelle is In a quarter mile race. No team could do it. We had nothing Of the kind in view; we just raced him off his feet and he couldn't stand the pace"
 Ray Ewry, the American high jump CT, who left the high jumping contest to watch the men pass the turn and who Immediately afterwards made note of the tracks left by the running shoes, said:
 At no time was there any lapplnB or confusion of the tracks, l thought Halswele lost his head He had the option of going either on the inside or the outside of Carpenter, but apparent ly he could not make up his mind what to do"
 All the men agree that Trainer Mike Murphy called the runners together before the start of the race. and in telling them what good man they had to beat and how careful they had to be on account of statements in the paper that the Americans would try unfair play, cautioned them to he fair above all things and to run their hard est. They all say they were doing this and nothing more.
 r. Leroy Holmes of Chicago, also had an unpleasant experience with the spectators this afternoon. He was giving q splendid exhibition in the standing high jump when, without any cause whatever, the spectators com menced to Boo" This got so bad that the referee had to call out that if the disturbance did not stop the jumping would be postponed. This threat served to bring about quiet, aftei | Holmes had been made very uncom' fortable. This and other signs of IT, ! feeling towards the Americans have not escaped the note of continental wis itors, the French correspondents who have been following the sports, partic' ularly condemplng the way In which ! the Americans have been treated, ant after the 400 metres race and tho Holmes incident they. with others of l the countrymen. took up the argu ments In behalf of the American cause | America Is not alone in her protesta | tions against unfair treatment. Sweder | has withdrawn all her men from tht | GraecoJRoman wrestling contests or the ground that one of the Swedish representatives Anderson was unfair. l ly deprived of bout yesterday. 1 Whatever may be the facts and the unfortunate episode. both the Engisf | and the Americans firmly believe that | their men are absolutely right and the others wholly wrong, and the result is | likely to be extremely damaging tC 1 Anglo-American athletics for years tC come The British public takes sport more seriously than any other nation | has fullest confidence in the Englisf judges and accepts their decisions in international events with implicit con fdence. Moreover, the Englishmar concerned in this event, Lieutenan, Haswelle Is gentleman of the high est standing and an officer of a popular regiment, which counts for much with his countrymen, who are certain that he would not knowingly profit by an unfair ruling In his own favor or ac- cuee an opponent of foul unless sure of the facts.
 The other events of the day seem un- important compared with the eruption over the 400 metres race The 2)O me ters sprint was a splendid contest Kerr the Canadian, won as was antici- pated, but the Americans, Clougher and Cartmell, gave hlnf a fierce strug- gle, the three finishing almost together | Kerr received an ovation almost equa | that given to Walker, the South Afri' can sprnter, who captured the laurel' in the 100 meters race yesterday. The Americans applauded him IS enthusias tically as his own people did.
 The standing high jump was almos exclusively an American event Ray Ewry. New York A. C., won in the final topping thebar at feet, ? inches. Tho l Greek competitor Tsiclltaras, was ar inch below him, tieing with J. A. Bllel of the Brooklyn Central Y. M, c. A Holmes gained a certificate of merl | for a jump of five feet. O'Kelly wor the final in the catch-as- -catch-car wrestling heavyweight, over 16' pounds. Frances team took first hon ors in fencing and the Hungarian tean | for sabers
 The American heat winners in thu no meters hurdling were J. c. Garrels Chicago A. A.; w. M. Rand, Harvard r. C. Smithson, Multonomah, Oregon l A. C.; L. V. Howe, Yale, and A. B. Shaw Dartmouth university \ The United | Kingdom LOOK seven meats III tllS even and Belgium and Norway one each.
 One of the features of to-day's events was the jumping of I5wry, the Amerl can champion. His victory was espe cially creditable as he recently caugh cold, and was obliged to jump to-da! bound up in long strips of plaster.
 The drawings of the semi-lnals O the no meters hurdles are as follows.
 Heat 1-Groenings, Walters and Illus 1fpIto5 Ia n Shaw
 Heat 2-knydett, United Kingdom Howe and Smithson, America.
 Heat 3--Ahearne Healy and Kiely United Kngdom; Rand America.
 Heat 4--Kinahan, United Kingdom Healburt, Belgium; Garrels, America