Olympic Cavalcade

OLYMPIC CAVALCADE have constituted a new Olympic record. The Englishmen, Evenson and Bailey, and the American, McCluskey, were in the lead until two laps from ' home, when Is9-Hollo came through to win by 8o yards from Evenson. Bailey was 5th and ·the Americans, McCluskey and Dawson, vd and 6th respectively:. The Olympic Relay races an~ always <t source of excitement to the spectators, and the Germans arrived at Los Angeles preceded by a great reputation for having beatel) all the best sprinters in Europe. In the Final of the 4 x 100 metres U.S.A., represented by E. Toppino, R. Kiesel, H. Dyer and F. Wykoff, beat Germany in'"the new record time of 40 secs., but the German"teatn retv-rned 40.9 secs. In the 16oo metres Relay America again won; I. Fuqua, E. Ablowich, K. Warner and W. Carr making a new World's record of 3 mins. 8·2 secs. from Great Britain, 3 mins. 11·2 secs., and Canada, 3 min. 12•8 secs. It should, I think, be remembered that Great Britain was in that race represente d by.' G. L. Rampling, not yet fully recovered from a long illness, and his -brothe_r officer, Cl.'ewe Stonley-they had both had gruelling races before being eliminated from the Individual 4oo metre_?-::-Tom Hampson, who had previously created a World's record for the 8oo metres, and by Lord Burgliley, who had performed so brilli– antly in both Hurdle races. Great Brit:aih and the Empire had high hopes of victory in each. For the uo metres we had Lord. Burghley, Wing– Commander D. 0. Finlay and Lieut.-Col. R. St. G. T. Harper, but U.S.A. had George Saling, who won from~Percy Beard and Donatd-Finlay, to whom J. Kel-ler, U.S.A., handed the 3rd Olympic medal after the photo- graphs ~ad proved that Finlay had deprivea him of that place. _ Lord Burghky finished 5th in the fastest time in which -he had eve? run a high .hurdles race. _For the 400 metres Hurdles there were many famous men entered, most of whom. had before met each other, but the. hopes of the 'Empire ·were built upon Tisdall and Burghley despite the presence of the former !ecord holder, Morgan Taylor, U.S.A., L. Facelli, Italy, and J. Areskoug, Sweden, both-of whom had upon previous occasions beaten Burghley in championship contests. _ None the less it was Tisdall, leading app~rently all the way, and despite knocking over the last hurdle, who won in 51·8 secs. in what would have been World's record time except for that mistake with the last fence, from G. Hardin;- U:S.A., to whom the World'"s-record of 52 secs. was credited, F. M. Taylor, tJ.S.A., Lord Burghley, L. facelli, and J. Areskoug. The Marat_h_on race was won by J. C. Zal:Jala in the new Olympic record time o£ 2 hrs. 31 min. 36 ·secs., from Sam Ferris, G.B., 2 hrs. 3 I mins. 55 secs., followed by A. Toivonen, Finland, D. MtCle_od "'Wright, G.B.,__ and twO Japanese, S. Tsuda ana '0. Kin. The winner collapsed after crossing the finishing line,·but Ferris was very fit and should in the opinion ofmost people have won th_t ~ra~e, but he left his winning effort too late. . - In that year· the 5o,ooo metres walk, which is 3 I miles I 22 yards,- was --