Olympic Cavalcade

AMSTERDAM, 192-8 15 5 p·8 secs. Hahn, meanwliile,-had faded fast and finished 5th with Sera Martin right on his heels. _ I have spoken already of the result of the 200 metres, but the Americans regained something of their erstwhile prestige when Ed. Hamm won the Long Jump at the new Olympic distance o£-25 ft. 4! in. - The revival, however, was but short-lived, for Sid Atkinson, South Africa, who had been waiting four year~ to take his revenge upon the Americans, came from the back with a devastating rush to win the I IO metres Hurdles from America's top hurdlers, J. Anclerson, John Collier and Leighton Dye, to say nothing of his compatriot, G. Weightman S_niith, who had broken World's record in an eliminating heat. The Americans; however, took GOmfort from the fact that Blld Houser, by Throwing the Discus I 55 ft. 3 in., retained the second of the Olympic titles he had won in I924, while Sabin Carr, the .-great Yale pole vaulter and World's -record holder, won that_eyent with a new Olympic record of I3 ft. 9i in. On 2_August the triumEh of the- Finns, S!arted at that Olympiad by Nurmi, was continued when Harry Larva, a 22-yeat_:-old watchmaker from Apo, where Nurmj was born, won- th~ I500_metr€s in 3 mins. 53'2 secs., b~ating the famous _Frenchman Ladoumeg]le, and his fe!Jow Finn, E. V'urje. And n9w the Scandinavians se€med to be intent on swapping the honours among themselves so that if it wa:? not; one Finn it was another, or certainly a Scanclinavian. In the Jave!ifi Throw Lundqvi~t, Sweden, was Ist at 2I8 ft. 6! in.~ ·alth<~mgh I saw one oLhis 'no throws'':go :well over the World's record mark. B. Szepes, Hungary, was- 2nd, and _@._ Sunde, of __ Norway, was 3rd. Iri the Discus event,-wonby Houser,Kivi,ofFinlancl, was 2nd. - . The Games were already almost ove!, and the U.S..A.-had not won a smgle traGk event, whereas Great Britain had taken two ISt ana two 2ndn places, but on 3August Ray Barbutti, from Syracuse, an a11-round~athlete and fo?tba11 player, came into the picture. He was up against Rinkel, o?Ca~bndge University, Buchner and Storrs, of Germany, and Ja~es, Ball; of Canada, who must have won had he not looked aside to see what was happening to his opponent in ,a further lane. In that same split second Barbutti hurled himself at the worsted and fell flat 'upon the traclf, but not until he had broken the tape with his breast. _ On the same day Ville Ritola, with comparative ease, d-efeatecl the hither– to unconquered Paavo Nur]ni at 5ooo metres in I4 mins. 38·o secs. and once again E. Wide, Sweden, was 3rd, as he.had been at IO,ooo metres that year and at 5000 metres in 1924. - The question then was, what would h<!ppen· in the 3000 metres Steeple– chase? Ritola had conquered his most-dangerous opponent, Nurmi, at 5000 metres, and-it was said that Ritola:could not bebeat~h. Tired from th.e battle of the previous day, Ritola, ~owever, decided n;t to run, so it was Toivo