Evening star., 1932-02-06
10,0(O-METER RACE
BREEDS PROTESTS
New Heats Ordered After
Charges Against U. S. and
Canadian Entries.
BY EDWARD J. NEu.
Associated Press Sports Writer,

7 AXE PLACID, N. Y, February
6.-Tnternational good will
L. and amity, avowed purpose
Of the olympic games, has
collapsed completely after totter-
Ing about the Winter division on
palsied legs for almost a full day.
In fact, before the 1882 Winter
games actually were "a hours old
the altrulstic love of sports for
sports sake, the good fellowship of
an international congress of ath-
letes, had disappeared entirely.
Swords were unSheathed and the
boys who really don't like each
other began to tell the truth.
OutWardly the situation was under
control for the moment today. The
decision Of Joseph K Savage, chairman
OF the United States Olympic Speed
Skating Committee, disqualifying Alex
Hurd and Frank Stack of Canada and
Eddie Wedge Of Detroit from the final
Of the I0,000meter championship, had
IN erect been reversed.
But the underlying causes Of all the
bitterness had not been touched. The
representatives Of the Scandinavian
nations apparently never will be recon
cleo 10 the American style Of racing
Heats Declared NO Races"
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Jara1, O - ----I.a:!re protest Of
Norway, Pa S=eden and Japan,
who rad cc--4Eed II the morning,
mouth sopLcCo-e, had raced 70 his
second sr-aiga. Olympic title in the
final OF the l5Q0-mecer event.
They said that the Americans were
not racing fairly; that they loafed, re-
fused 10 help break the wind" that
eXhausts a man who tries TO lead all
the way, and that they were making a
travesty Of the speed skating" They
demanded that the European style Of
racing against time be adopted for the
remainder of the races.
Topsy- Turvy Affair.
Immediately after filing the protest,
two trial heats, each to qualify four
men for the 1O.O00-meter final. were
raced and the United States qualified
four men-Ed Schroeder, Valentine
Balls, Irving Jaffee, winner of the s.
000-meter title on the opening day,
and Ed Wedge, with Hurd winning one
heat for Canada and Stack finishing
second in the other. Norway was for
tunate to place her two aces, Ivar
Ballangrud and Bernt Evensen, who
already have lost to Jaffee and Shea
the championships they won in the
1928 games.
Immediately the Scandinavian lead
erS raced out onto the course, protest
ing again Savage disqualified the
North Americans and the japanese,
then reconsidered. 1t wasn't until
eight hours later that the topsy- turvy
and the boys ordered to start all over
again.
Strangely enough the Scandinavians
have no basis for protest of any kind.
lnasmuch as the manner of racing in
the 1892 OIynplcS was decided upon
and agreed to by all countries year
ago
While the net results yesterday
brought no progress in the 10000
meters, the United States stepped fur
ther out in front in its drive for an
initial Olympic games championship
Although Alex Hurd Bill Logan and
Frank Stack finished in that order be-
hind Shea in the 1,5O0-meter final,
Ray Murray and Herb Taylor. New
| Workers, took fifth and sixth places
! respectively.
The United States thus led with 43
points today. While Canada boasted 25
and Norway, only other scorer. s.