The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-07-24

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the spokesman and the others upheld
what he said.
Americans Indignant.
Let us, In the first place." said Mr..
Sullivan, discuss the arrangement Of
the track. II was unfair, and particu.
larly to Taylor and the arranging was
apparently done by q man who did not
want all the contestants to get a fair
start. Taylor's position caused him
to give away yards which he could
never regain.
Nov, for the race. Carpenter, at
the crack Of the pistol, took the lead
and did the only thing he could do.
and win, and that was to take the
running out Of Halswelle in the first
three hundred yards. As q result, he
gave the spectators the fastest three
hundred ever seen in a stadium. The
220 yards he covered In % seconds
and at 800 yards he had Halswelle
out. Carpenter had the pole, but he
did not run close to 1t. He ran well
out at the first bend, and coming to
the second bend, leading the straight.
away, he ran wide, as he had q per
feet right to do.
nHalswelle, instead Of taking advan-
tage Of the chance and cutting into
the post, remained inl his old position.
At that point, probably 40 yards from
home, Carpenter turned his head Ia
see who was there and then, swinging
up the stretch, gave the English pub
lie 9 10 yards that had not been
equalled this week. Halswelle was
out before the stretch was reached
and America had found in Carpenter
a wonder at this distance.
Never in my life, and I have been
attending athletic meetings for 81
years, have I Witnessed a scene that
struck me as being so unsportsman-
like and unfair as that In which the
officials participated. When Carpen-
ter started to leave Halswelle behind,
the officials cried 'Foul'' In unison
and raised their hands and hats while
the announcer ran around, also yell
ing Foul Furthermore, they did the
unsportsmanlike act Of running up the
track in an endeavor to stop Carpenter
coming through and deliberately and
meanly broke the tape 30 as not to
give him that honor.
They practically declared 1t no
race without authority. There was
but n nan in the arena who had
authority to do that, and he was the
referee. The referee did not do go,
but q lot OF: excited oflcials rana about
screaming foul and mo race and 1t
was their decision that was an
nounced.
Suppose Carpenter and Robbins
had met with an accident. would it
still be declared no race? IL the ON
IN conducting the Olympics had any
spirit Of good fellowship and had
treated our boys and oflcials as well
as we would have treated them. II
they had gone TO America, i men
would have gone out and run the race
over again. But they have not. The
race was as fair as any rae ever run.
we never said 9 word when two
Englishmen tried to line up in front
OF Elsie In q race last week, nor when
Dekin and Wilson tried to run down
Sheppard. things which they glory in
over here and which their own papers
laud them for doing. Again, In the
800 meters Crawford went in to kill.
OF to allow Just, his team
mate, to win, but they could not do 1t
@ANA Sn0y udQ we sWOu1U uOG nave
for they believe In doing
these things over here. actions that
would be condemned as mean trickery
ii America. ~
The formal announcement Of the
American committee Is as follows:
Decislon Of the Committee.
flE4E1GeL L&INgEa uaL4NEhV
We have decided to protest the de-
;ision as unfair and because the ON
;ials declared nj race without CON.
liberation" q
The American committee further am
bounced tonight. that although Car
,enter and Robbins would not get the
olympic medals, they would receive
Medals from the American committee
md they would be credited With their
in AmericA
Committeeman McCabe said that
he breaking Of the tape was done
lnder the influence OF thirty thou
and people who nlled the stands and