Olympic Cavalcade

LOS ANGELES, I932 179 instituted as a new Olympic event. In that event our old friend Ugo Frigerio, · Italy, of shorter distance fame, competed, and also a very efficient Latvian, J. Dalinsch. The winner, none the less, was the Britisher T. W. Green, who was more than 7 rpinutes in front of Dalinsch, Latvia, who had a lead of 2 minutes over Frigerio towards the end of the race, which Green, at th_at time 39 years of age, and a married man with f~ur children, won in 4hrs 50 mins. IO secs. · - · There were surprises, too, in both the _Men's field events and the Women's sectjon of the Games. On the track in the Women's section the Polish star, Stella Walasiewicz, returning I 1·9 secs. for 100 metres, beat H. Strike, Canada, W. von Bremen, U.S.A., M. Dollinger, Germany, and E. Hiscock, G.B., but Mildred Didrikson won the 8o metres Hurdles in i: 17 secs., the Javelin at I43 ft. 4 in., while Jean-Shiley, with a jump of 5 ft. 5t in., beat her by a quarter of an in_ch for the World's r~cora and th·e Olympic High Jump title. In tlie JaveliR Throw the Germa·n~girls, E. Braumuller and; _Tilly Fleischer, were withi11 _ a foot of her. Th~, J?iscus was won by L. . Copeland, U.S.A., from-_her compatriot, Miss R. Osburn, but a Pole- was vd, <mother· 6th and German girls 4th and 5th. U.S.A. won the Women's 4oo metres Relay in 47 secs. very narrowly from Canada and Great B_ritain. In the Men's High Jump, there was a ~ig surprise when D. McNaughton, of Canada, defeated R. Van Osdel, U.S.A., S. Toribio, Philippines, C. _ Johnson, the U.S.A. Negro who held theWerJd'-s record in I936, I. Refnikka, Finland, and K. Kimura, Japan. The first fouf all cleared 6ft. 5! in. hut McNaughton won m the jump off by the p-rocess oF exhaustion. __ In the Long Jump the American Negro E. L. Gordon won at 25 ft. of ·in. by less than 2 in. .from C. L: Redd, U.S.A7; -=but Japan and Sweden were among the placed finalists. . _ q; The Pole Vault was ,{ triumph of lon_g !raining in sprinting and in gymnastics for W. W. Miller, U._S.A., with compatriots 3rd and 4th; 2nd and 5th positions were occupied by }<!pan and the 6th place by a Brazilian. Miller made a rrew World's and Olympic record of 14ft. ~~in. In the Hop, _Step and Jump C. N ambu, Japan, made a new Werld's and Olympic record of 5I ft. 7 in. America had to be content with 6th place; _ Swedes, Japanese, Irish and Dutchmen were also placed. . The Javelin Throw, o£ course, supplied the l!sual first three places for Fmland. Matti Jaervinen,the World's reGord:helder, threw 238ft. 7 in. and his countrymen, M. Si-ppala and E. Penttila, were weH in tlie picture, as was the German champion,_G.-Weimann. The ·Americans, L. Bartlett and K. Churchill, both exceeded 207 ft. - In the Discus, however, J. Anderson, 1st (::1 62ft.- 4~in.), and H. Laborde, lnd (159ft. o! in:), d~monstrated thegrowing efficiency of the American· throwers, who were up against the champions of France and Hungary, who filled the next f6ur places. ·