The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-25
At the Olympics, in Which the
Americans We're Barred.
RECORD NOT BROKEN.
Victor's Time Not So Good as
Robbins on Thursday.
Royalty Aids In the Distribu-
tfOn Of the Various Medals.


Halswelle, the English runner this
morning walked" over In the final of
the 400 metre fiat race in the Olympics
which was run originally last Thurs
day and won by J. c. Carpenter, Cor
nell university. This is the race that
was declared void by the judges on
the allegation, which has been denied
by the Americans, that Carpenter
fouled Halswelle. Carpenter was dis
qualified from competing again and J.
B. Taylor. Irish-American A. c., and
w. G. Robbins of Cambridge Mass,
Withdrew and would not run today
Halswelle did not really walk; he
ran, and ran hard in an effort to es-
tabllsh new Olympic record. His
performance was a very great disap-
pointment after all that had been con-
hdently expected. 1t was firmly be-
lteved that the most talked of athlete
In the stadium, until the Marathon
race results displaced him in this re-
gard, would clip at least a fraction of
a second off the record of 49H. In
stead. it took Halswelle a full 80
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, but
much to the surprise of the spectators
it was several minutes before q flag
was unfurled and sent to the top of
the staff to denote a British victory.
The blue jackets having this work in
hand had mislaid their union jack
and they had to requisition one from
the decorations of the stadium Halls
welle had done what he believed to be
right, but the experts feel that he has
hardly justified his predictions that he
xr-oc o1.1 20 D-l-
bins, both of whom made better time
on Thursday than the English runner
made today.
F. c. Irons, Chicago A. c., M. J. Sher-
idan, Irish-American. A. c., John J.
Brennan, Marquette university. Wis.
D. R. Sherman, Dartmouth college; F.
H. Bellah, Stanford university, Cal,
and Frank Mount Pleasant, Carlisle In
dian school, also competed but their
jumps were behind the leaders and
were consequently not measured.
The Running Jump.
The running hop, step and jump,
was the only event of the morning.
Ahearne, United Kingdom. with As
feet y inches; Lawson. Norway, Al
feet 2% inches anc Mcdonald.
Canada, 46 feet inches qualified for
the final. Both Ahearne and McDon-
aid improved their jumps in the final.
doing respectively 4S feet 11N inches
and As feet 5A inches. Lawson got
third place with Al feet 2% inches.
Bricker, Canada. with 46 feet
with 46 feet 2 inches. were awarded
with certificates of merit for their
jump.
Dorando Fails to Protest
Dorando. the Italian runner who was
assisted yesterday to the tape in the I'm
ish of the Marathon race ana who has
awful EFFORT. desired today to lodge a
rnfo oct OF he pfx ~ roDa IN
John J. Hayes, Irish-American A. c., on
the ground that he had been interfered
If he had been left alone he could have
finished without assistance. His protest.
however, would have come too late for
consideration and he therefore did not
enter it.
Hayes at House OF Commons.
John ]. Hayes with the Marathon
honors fresh upon him visited the
house of commons this afternoon. He
was introduced to several of the mem
bers who congratulated him upon his
brilliant performance.
There was a fair attendance at the
stadium this afteroon to witness the
concluding contests of the Olympic
games and the distribution of prizes.
The winners of silver and bronze med
ais, diplomas of special merit and spe-
cial commemorative medals formed on
the far side of the arena and marched
to tables opposite the royal box. where
the silver medalists received their
tokens from the Duchess OF Rutland.
The winners of the bronze medals
were given their prizes by Catherine.
Duchess of Westminster, while the di-
plomas of merit and the commemora-
tive medals were presented by Lady
Desborough.
Porro, Italy, won the lightweight
Graeco-Roman wrestling; Orloff, Rus
sia, second. and Linden. Finland.
third.
The middIeweight of the Graeco-
Roman wrestling was won by Martens
sen, Sweden, with Anderson. Sweden,
second, and Andersen, Denmark, third.
Americans Win Relay Race.
The final in the 1000 metre relay
race was won easily by the American
team.
The final in the LOO metre hurdle
race was won by F. c. Smithson,
Multnomah A. c.; ]. c. Garrels, Chi
Dartmouth college, third. Time, 10
seconds, which is the worlds record.
Smithson came in two yards in front
of Garrels.
The German team was second and
the Hungarian third. Time minutes
25 2-5 seconds
The Americans at no time, were
pressed and each man in turn in
creased the teams lead. This was the
by Smithson, American, Germany and
last event of the Olympic sports and
the stars and stripes which has been
so much In evidence during the fort
night that the contests lasted was the
staff in the center of the arena, for
the winning country at each event has
been signalized by the display OF it's
national emblem.
Queen Alexandria reached the stad-
ium at O'Clock. accompanied by sew