Olympic Cavalcade

PARIS, 1924 . 135 znd, Porritt 3rd, Bowman 4th, Paddock 5th and Murchison 6th. The time was an Olympic record of I0·6 secs. :Another Olympic record was to follow in the High Jump, where America really began to pile up the points. Harold ~Osborn, blond-haired, bespectacled athlete from the Illinois A.C., cleared 6 ft. 5'95 in. with no apparent difficulty. Leroy T.- Brown, of Dartmouth,__ U.S.A., claimed .2nd place at 6ft. 4! in. and·the Frenchman, P. Lewden, wlio held the British record preyiously, was 3rd at 6ft. 3! in. L. F. Roberts, tne - South African, who had attained a Blue at Cambridge in the High Jump, failed to reach the Olympic Final after clearing 6ft. To finish up the day. F. Morgan Taylor, of Grennell College, U.S.A., raced over the timbers to win the 400 metres Hurdles in what would hav€ been World's record time of p·6 secs. but for the fact that he tipped ove-r a "" hurdle. It is significant of the a9vance of other t).C!tions that E. V. Vilen, of Finland, was 2nd-and George Andre, Franee, 4th. - Andre, be it remembe'Fed, had made his debut at the Olympic Games of London in 1908, when he tied for 2nd place in the High Jump at 6ft. 2 in. He was then about the youngest competitor in the Games, . being theh under 19 years of age. In the years between he had served through the First ~ World War; at Antwerp he had run 2nd in the 5th round of the 400 metres Hurdles to F. F. Loomis, U.S.A., the ultimate winner of the event in 54 sc:cs. He had taken the Oath of Amateurism on behalf of all the athletes at the Opening Ceremony and here he was agai~ taking part and pl~ce in an Olympic Final. . - - Thus had the me!l from America be~n to· establish a lead "Yhic~_ no other nation threatened tQ surpass on the total score basis throughout that Olympiad. _ ~- The third day c::>f the Games, Tuesday, _S July, opened well for the United States. Their two Negro jumper-s took the first tWo places tn th~ Long Jump, but her.e again there was a distinct warning from the Northern ~ nations, forS. Hansen, Norway, and V. Tuulos, FinlanCI, were but a matter of a few inches behind Gourdin, and C. .E. Macintosh, the Oxford Blue, was placed 6th at 22 ft. 5 in. Then the Americans completely clc:aned up in the Shot Put. Big 'Budd' Houser, of Southern California, winning with a Put of 49ft. 2!.in. from Glenn Hartranft, of Stanford, 49ft. 2 in., and ~ Ralph Hills, of Prirrceton, 48 ft. o-f 6 in. In thaf contest the Finn:ish menace - Was again in evidence, for K. J. Torpo was 4th and the veteran K. E. Niklander; both_Finns, was 6th. · - - ~ . That those fielCl events points were acquired was a very good thing f_?r · the United States, since the 8oo metres Run was also on the programme for that day. For this race America had four finalists, gf whom they relied upon Sc?~yler Enck, of Pen11.. State, for whatever hop~ they might entertain of gammg the victory. They had heard, however, of the t,wo great Cambridge runners, f!ez:ry