The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-12
Winning the 1900 Metre Race
From America at the Olympic
Games Tickled John Bull I'm.
mensely.


{. Copyrght, lPls. by The Ffrss Publishing 20.
y +, .-I the New York World
YOqaN BULL Is happy for the first
time in years. Let America run
away with the rest OF tho events
on the Olympic programme. as far az
England is concerned England has won
The 1.:Go-mo.re race. Tho 100 -nie,re. bt
ID known, Is the metric substitute for
the mile race. England, until the past
half dozen years. has been immensely
proud OF her mile runners.
oh. the Yanks have fash of speed"
said the British sporisnen. but walt
until they're called upon to show bot
tom. and they can't do IT,"
Lightbody. when he won the LOO
metre race mt Athens six years ago.
broke the English heart. Everybody In
England expected TO see an Englishman
run away with that event, and even we
Americans were Swallowed with the
ancient tradition of English invincibility
on the middle distance route.
~ Since that time We have DEVELOPED
better miers year after year than
England. until we have come to think
that our men cannot be beaten by the
, best ever born on English soil. The
1900 metre race was one In which we
we're positively sure we could see our
men come IN In one two three order to
the finish line.
But Jackson. the English runner. beat
Klviat to the tape by a hands breadth,
kviat and Taber second and third, an
Inch apart. The main point Is that
Jackson. the English miller. came Up
from the rear In the final drive and
fought his way TO the front. England
can stu develop a middle distance run
ner with bottom" We may have
worlds record holders IN our team. but
In the next olymp.es they won't be al.
lowed to 20 In with the notion that
they have only each other 10 watch
and TO out-rival and outwit. We've
learned that nothing Is 50 insure as
the sure thing. Nobody expected to
see Bouin and Kohiemaincn run our
distance men or their feet. yet that is
what the French and Finnish cnam-
plons did.
OF course. reverses must be expected
In all competitions. Fortunately. where
some Of our athletes have met faster or
better men. others have come up unex-
pectediy with improved performances,
90 In the end the scale balances. and
no doubt the early part OF next week
viii md the final summing up OF points
about as much In Americas favor as
We predicted they would be when the
Finland sailed.
THE mall brings lot OF French
papers describing the recent
klaus-Carpentier match. The
French writer's claim that Carpenter
wss winning and that his excltabls
manager by jumping into the ring.
robbed his own man of victory on
points that he couldn't have missed
had the bout gone on through the twen-
ueth round. They think that Carpen-
tier box a Ike a champion. and that II
Klaus represents the best In the Amerl-
can middleweight class our middle
weights have forgotten how to fight.
George Engel. manager OF Klaus.
writes his opinion, which doesn't g.oe
with that OF the Frenchmen.
Mr.. Edgren:
~ Dear Sir-Just a few lines. Our hght
with Carpenter here was good hght,
and Klaus would have put Carpenter
out had he had good square deal but
no had to fight two men. Carpenter
anl the referee. We were to box
straight rules. hit as long as one arm
was free. But Just as soon AS Klaus
got started to hit In close the referee
would break them and was always In
KLAUS road. In the NTH round Klaus
put Carpenter down two times, and
the bell saved him. No doubt Klaus
would have put him out in the sixth
round. but they had Carpenter all oiled
up. and all he did was run around the
ring. and when Frank struck him the
blows would glance on They did this
every round. We protested. but II
didn't do any good. They did Is they
pleased. In the Nineteenth round. when
Klaus was putting him out. the man
sger OF Carpenter jumped into the
ring and stopped It, Klaus would have
put him out sooner n he had had a
square deal. We expect TO box him
again In Paris some time in July. Yours
very truly, GEORGE ENGEL."