Evening star., 1924-03-17

faodock has rot disproyed any of
inc serious charges which have heen
pressed against him and which cans
CO MS loss of amateur standing" said
Lacy. i see no reason for reinstat-
ing him."
Settles His Standing.
lhouSh Lacy's refusal blocks a
complete "whitewash" of Paddock's
REGARD, the question of the Califor.
mans standing is definitely settled. 1,
is now known that the majority of
The committee which considered the
charge favors reinstatement, and il
was SAID last night that the vote of
the committee would be the final de-
clSion on the matter
President Prout headed the investi-
gazing group. which included samuel
goodman Of San Francisco, Robert S.
Ruben of New YORK, and Lacy. The
tal1fornianS were regarded all along
rs the defenders of Paddock. while
ttublen's attitude has not been known
New York representative cast his
vote on the matter and President
Prout is believed to be the third
member Of the committee to decide in
the Sprinter's favor. According to
Lacys statement, all four members
or the group, outside of himself, yot-
ed for Paddock but this could not be
confirmed last night.
Prout Makes Denial.
According to Lacy, the telegram in
which Prout asked him to vote for
Paddock's reinstatement carried the
news that four of the committee had
already cast favorable votes. This
was denied by Prout in d statement
issued at Boston last night.
That is not So" Prout said. Lacy
does not know how the other mem
bers of the committee voted. The vote
has not been completed Lacy knows
, how he voted, but he does not know
how the other members voted"
Prout declined to comment fur
ther, stating only that tn" result OF
tho committees vote would be made
public when it was completed.
From other sources ii Has learned
however, that though the vote may
not have been formally completed,
the decision of the committee Is
known and all that remains of the
matter is the formal public announce
ment of the Californian's reInstate-
nent and his eligibility for the
olympic games.
Thus an athletic wrangi. which
has waSed for nearly two years and
which at one time started Il war
between various athletic organizes
lions which threatened to divide the
athletes of the country into opposite
camps has virtually come to a close.
u.
dock visited the home Of President
Prout in Boston few weeks ago
and II was said then that the \. A. u.
Official was satisfied with the Cali
forHian'S desire tor peace and would
use his influence in the latter's be-
half.
Brought Matters to Crisis.
Paddock's attendance at the stu
dent games in Paris last summer
brought to crisis relations which
had not been any too amica bic. There
had been whispered charges about
the Californian'S failure to present
itemized expense accounts, and when
he went abroad in open defiance of
the 4. a. L. edict which forbade
Ans erican athletes to compete abroad
prior 10 the olympic games the storm
broke.
Paddock openly dofed the organi-
zation and the 7. c. A. A. A. 4. soon
there was concerted nloN euent to
break the strength OF the A. 4. L.
in the country and the sprnter be-
came the center of a controversy i'm
which most of the influential ath-
]etic powers of the country took part
KS result several alleged sins of
The Californian were brought TO
light and the A. A. T. finally barred
him from athletic competition on the
following grounds:
Paddock's failure to file an itemiZed
account of his receipts and expendi-
lures; infraction of the rule of the
International Federation which pro-
pides no expense money to an ath-
Jete, but to Paddocks failure to
return money borrowed from the
American Olympic committee: failure
to account for receiving double ex-
pense money in travelling from New
York to Los Angeles and statements
made by Paddock regarding a. A. L.