The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-24

to resort to fouling to win medals. thus described the race:
 As we approached the lsat bend, Rob- ms had the pole and was leading by d yard. l made my effort there and I certainly ran wide, as have done every time I have been on the track. Halswell had lots of room to pass me on either side.
 Tt is ridiculous to talk of team boring or pocketing as good a man as Halswell 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 could not stand the pace"
 All the men agree that Trainer Michael Murphy called the runners to- gether before the start of the race and in telling them what a good man they had to beat and how careful they had to be on account of statements in tho papers that the Americans would try unfair play, cautioned them to be fair above all things and to run their hardest. They all say they were doing this and nothing more.
 Holmes BuIIied.
 F. Leroy Holmes of Chicago also had an unpleasant experience with the spectators this afternoon. He was giving a splendid exhibition in the
 
 cause whatever. the spectators cont menced to boo" This got so bad that the referee had to call out that if the disturbance did not stop the jumpin.r would be postponed. This threat served to bring quiet, although Holmes had been made very uncomfortable.
 This and other signs of i'll feelirg toward the Americans has not escaped the notice of continental visitors, tn , French correspondents who have been following the sports particularly coz demning the way in which the Amer: cans have been treated, and after the 400 meter race and the Holmes incl dent, they, with others of their coun- trymen, took up the arguments in be. half of the Americans.
 swedes Are Angry.
 America is not alone in her protestations against unfair treatment. Sweden has withdrawn all her men from the Graeco- Roman wrestling contests on the ground that one of the Swedish representatives. Anderson, was unfairly deprived of a bout yesterday.
 Whatever may be the facts in the unfor- tunate episode, both the English and the Americans firmly believe that their men are absolutely right and the others wholly wrong, and there is likely to be extrems damage to Anglo-Amercan athletes for years to come.
 Lieutenant Halswelle is a gentleman of the highest standing, and an officer of q popular regiment which counts for mucn with his countrymen, who are certain thar he would not knowingly profit by an un- fair ruling in his own favor.
 It is an undeniable fact that American athletes have not been popular in Eng land since the famous Cornell rowing epi- sode The public mind has been charged with the belief that American amateurs are tainted with professionalism, and this suspicion has been vastly increased by charges of the sort reproduced from Amer 'can magazines.
 The Americans have been conscious of the atmosphere of suspicion surrounding them, and have done their utmost to win victories so ceanly that could grumble.
 Secondary Events.
 The other events of the day seem unim- pcrtant compared with the eruption over the 400 meters race The 200 meters sprint was a splendid contest Kerr the Cana clan, won, as was anticipated but the Americans, Cloughen and Cartmell, gave him a fierce struggle, the three finishing almost together Kerr received an ova- tion. The Americans applauded him as enthusiastically as his own people did.
 The standing high jump was almost ex- ciusively an American event. Ray Ewry, New York A. C., won in the final, topping the bar at 5 feet inches.
 The Greek competitor Tsclaras, was an inch below him, tying with J. A. Bailler of the Brooklyn Central Y. M. c. A. Holmes gained a certificate of merit for d jump of feet
 OKelly of the United Kingdom won the final in the catch-as-catch-can wrestling heavyweight, over 161 pounds. France's Epee team took first honors in fencing and the Hungarian team for sabres.
 The American heat winners in the ID meters hurdles were J. c. Barrels, Chicago A. A; William M Rand, Harvard; F. c. Smthson, Multnomah, Ore, A. C.. l.. V. Howe, Yale, and A. B. Shaw, Dartmouth The United Kingdom took seven heats in this event, and Belgium and Norway one each.
 Sir Thomas Lipton has invited ths American athletes and officials to mako q cruise on the Erin next week.