The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-24
British ShOW AmdZing
 Defiance Of All Rules

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 and the judges who rendered the decision and Halswell was called to state thelr case. Neither any member of an Amer ican committee nor any one Of three American runners, however, was called on to make any statement, and the com- mittee after upward of two hours con- sderation rendered the following de- csion:
 Judges Decision.
 ''The judges declare the race void and order the same to be run over again on Saturday at noon. Carpenter is disqual- flied"
 When they heard the decision the members of the American committee passed a resolution, ordering the men not to run on Saturday. James E. SuihVah' the American commissioner to the games and Barlow S. Weeks. J. B. Maccape, Gustavus T. Kerby, Everett C. Brown and Alonzo Stagg, members or the American committee, sat in room Tn their hotel this afternoon, the most dis gusted lot of Americans ever gathered lo- gether in England. Commissioner Sulli- van was the spokesman and the others upheld what he said.
 Sulivan's Statement.
 Let us in the first place" said MT. Sullivan tdiscuss the arrangement or the track It was unfair, especially to ray Tor. and apparently the arranging was done by man who did not want all the contestants to get fair start. Taylor s position caused him to give away yaros which he could never regain.
 Now for the race Carpenter at .ns crack of the pistol took the lead and diu n. that was to take all the running out or Halswell in the first 300 yards As re- sult he gave the spectators the 1astest 300 yards ever seen on the Stadiuh. ne ooo wards he covered in 23 seconds, ana at ROO wards he had Halswell out. carpenter had the pole, but he did not run close to it. He ran well out at the nrst peno and coming to the second pend leauihs 'o the straightaway, ne ran "iue' "' had a perfect right to do.
 "Halswell, instead of taking advantage of the chance and cutting in to the post remained in his old position. At that point. probably no yards from hohie' Carpenter turned his head to see who was there and then, swinging up tne stretch. gave the English public llo wards that they had not seen equaled this week. Halswel was all out before the stretch was reached, and Amerlca had found in Carpenter a wonder at this 
 distance.
 No Precedent Exists.
 "Never in my life-and I have been at tending athletic meetings for 31 years have | witnessed a scene that struck me as being so unsportsmanlike and unfalr as that in which the officials partici- pated
 They practically declared it no race without authority There was but one man in the arena who had authority 10 do that, and he was the referee. The referee did not do so, but lot or eX- cited officials ran about screaming, .Foulv and No rAce!' and it was their decision that was announced.
 Suppose Carpenter and Robbins had met with an accident, would it still be declared no race? If the officials con ducting the Olympic sports had any spirit of good fellowship and had treat ed our boys and officials as we would have treated them if they had gone to America our men would have gone out and run the race over again; but they have not The race was as fair as any race ever run.
 I've never said word when two Eng lishmen tried to line up in front of Eisele in a race last week. nor when Deakin and Wilson tried to run down Sheppard things which they glory in over here, and
 
 Again in the 800 metres, Crawford went in to kill Sheppard off to allow Just, his team-mate to win, but they could not do it. and if they had we would not have murmured for they believe in. doing those things over here, actions that would be condemned as mean. tricks in America"
 s4 Formal Protest.
 The formal announcement of the Amer ican committee is as follows:
 We have decided to protest the de- cision as unfair, and that the. officials declared no race without consideration" The American committee further an nounced that although Carpenter and Robbins would not get the Olympic med als they would receive medals from the American committee and they would be credited with their win in America.
 Committeeman McCabe said that the breaking of the tape was done under the influence of 30,0OO people who filled the stands, and who were inflamed by the games, officials and newspapers.
 "It Is no surprise to me- he said. fin view of the statements in the morn ing papers that Halswell had been pocketed at Athens and that todays race would be watched by the people It is fair to assume, therefore, that tne audience was ready to denounce an American victory in the 400 meters race and that the officials were in- iuenced by this fact"
 Carpenters Statement.
 Carpenter, bright and quiet young American, who does not look as though he could do the trick, and who, his team mates say, would be the last one
 
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