The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
AMERICAN TEAM WINS
 DESPITE GREAT ODDS
Parisians Make It Hard For Uncles Boys, Poor
 Losers Abusing Victorious Athletes

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 Tonight the stars and stripes float over the Colombes Stadium by virtue of the victory of the American Rugby players. The flag was hauled up amid tense silence among the disappointed crowd of 30,000 spectators who had made France the favorite to win the game,
 The Americans won the match on it's merits, They outplayed the French in every department of the game. The tussle was rough one throughout and the French team finished with only 13 men. Though the Americans played hard every minute their game was clean one. Not one of the Americans was warned by the referee, Sam Free thy. Two French players had to be cautioned by him.
 Americans Are Faster
 It was case of superior physical condition, winning over greater experl- ence and Rugby technique. The Amer jeans were faster than the French men. They followed the ball like hounds on the trail of a rabbit; they covered their adversaries closely and tackled them hard. The visiting team stood the extremely warm weather better than the Frenchmen who wilted com pletely in the scond half.
 The Americans dominated through out the first period, astonishing the spectators, who had expected the Frenchmen to get the jump on them. Dick Hyland of San Francisco car ried the ball over the French line after four minutes of play in the first half. The Americans were getting pos session of the ball out of scrimmage oftener than the French and playing practically entirely in French territory during the half.
 Abuse Americans
 Jaureguy, Frances fastest three quarterback, was tackled hard after 20 minutes of play and was out of the game thereafter. The spectators, who up to that time had been fair, began abusing the Americans, although, ac- cording to every expert in the news paper and official stands the Amer jeans were playing a hard but fair game. The French appeared to be in bad physical shape, they having been out of training since their match with the Rumanians two weeks ago. Ap- parently they could not stand the strain of hard tackling and were con- tinually laid out. Some of them even knocked out themselves by coming into contact with American players carrying the ball.
 At the end of the first half the score was 8 to o in favor of the Amer icaons. The second period started with the Frenchmen playing IA men, Jau- reguy not having sufficiently recovered to resume. Four minutes after the half started Rudolph Scholz of Kewanee, H., got the ball from scrimmage and passed it to Robert Devereaux, Ohio, who ran 30 yards through the French team and shot the ball to Jack Patrick of Palo Alto, Cal, who scored try between the French goal posts. Doe converted it, making the score 8 to 0 in favor of the Americans.
 Captain Babe' Slater of the Aneri- cans obtained the ball, thrown in from the touchline, shook off three French tacklers and, unaided, carried it over the line, bringing the score to Il for the United States and nothing for France.
 Frenchmen Outplayed
 The Americans were completely out playing the Frenchmen. The latter were absolutely exhausted. Waysse, who was playing three quarters in place of Francois Borde, attempted to run around the left wing but was brought down hard by Caesar Manelli, New York city. The Frenchman's leg was injured and he was carried off the field. The French now were playing with 13 men.
 Lubin of the French team, who seemed to be playing an extremely rough game, was here cautioned by Referee Freethy for swinging a hard Carpentier-like blow to Hylands jaw. The referee was on the verge of put ting the Frenchman off the field, but the Americans begged him to allow Lu- bin to continue.
 Galau, at three quarters, taking ad- vantage of a tumble in the American backfield, fell on the ball behind the United States goal line for the only try obtained by France during the match. A fist fight then broke out in the stands and degenerated into a bat tie royal in which gold-headed canes were freely used. The Americans were outnumbered and furthermore they car ried no canes with which to retaliate.
 Americans Attacked
 When the police managed to disen- tangle the combatants, B., F. Larsen of Provo, Utah, and Gideon W. Nelson of DeKalb, H., two American students in Paris, were found to have been knocked out.
 Both men had to be carried out of the stands. Nelson was unconscious for an hour. When he recovered, it is said, he began looking for bewhiskered person who carried a Heavy cane.
 On the football field the Americans were now completely masters of the situation. They kept the ball in French territory for the remaining 20 minutes and might have rolled up a much larger score if they had had the experience, as the French defense was absolutely Jagged out. Hyland and Manelli both managed to score tries, but Doe could not convert them. The crowd booed and hissed.
 As the final whistle blew, the crowd for a moment appeared to be stunned. Amid silence the American flag was run up on the Olympic pole. This seemed to awake large jority of the spectators from their minute or so of lethargy, for bedlam broke loose. The strains of the American anthem could hardly be heard owing to the terrific booing and catcalling as the Americans walked off the field.
 There were a number of other spec tators, settling few private arguments among themselves.
 An American photographer, while at- tempting to take a picture of the American flag flying from the top of the Olympic pole. was hit with various missiles thrown by enraged spectators and compelled to take to cover. Police reserves were called out to protect the American players from the crowd lnassed outside the main entrance to .Lo ntn dinrn Tha nhericnna Iaft hu