Olympic Cavalcade

OLYMPIC CAVALCADE The Continentals, most of whom who had previously held World's records, failed to come through to the Final of the Shot Put in California, the Americans, Leo Sexton and H. Rothert, occupying the first two places at 52 ft. 6 1 \- in. and 51 ft 5 in. respectively. - The Hammer Throw provided a great battle between Pat O'Callaghan, Ireland, and V. Porhola, Finland, -who had won the Olympic Shot Put in 1920. O'Callaghan reached 176ft ui in. with his final throw, beating the 171 ft. 6i- in. thrown earlier by the Finn. America occupied 3rd and 5th places, with Sweden 4th and Argentine 6th. That, incidentally, was the Olympiad at which Jem Bausch won the Decathlon and broke theWorld's record held previously byAkilles Jaervinen, who was 2nd. The performances of Bausch were amazing having regard to the fact that he stood 6 ft. in height and weighed more than 14 stone. His performances were as follows compared with those of R. M. N. Tisdall, the only representative of the British Empire who was placed: ]. Bausch, U.S.4. . roo metres Long Jump Shot High Jump 400 metres r ro metres Hurdles Discus Pole Vault Javelin 1500 metres Il"7 s. 22ft. 9~ in. 50ft. 3~ in. 5 ft. 7 in. 54·2 sec. r6·2 sec. 146ft. 3t in. 13 ft. rl in. 203 ft. r t in. 5 min. 17 secs. R. M. N. Tisdall, Ireland. II'3 S. 21ft. 7f in. 41 ft. 3t in. 5 ft. 5 in. 49·0 sec. 15·5 sec. 109ft. 3! in. IO ft. 6 in. 148ft. 5~ in. 4 mins. 34·4 secs. Seventeen nations were represented by 104 entrants in the Boxing contest, which took place in the Olympic Auditorium, a vast building erected in 1924, with seating capacity for IO,ooo spectators. The arrange- . ments were first class and the decisions of the judges met with general approval. Before the Xth Olympiad was celebrated the International Boxing Federation had made several changes in the rules governing Olympic Boxing. The contests were of 3 rounds of 3 minutes each and there was only one knock-out in four full days of boxing. This was a technical knock-out scored in the eliminations in the Heavy-weight class. S. Enekes, Hungary, won the Final of the Fly-weight (u2 lb.) from F. Cabanas, Mexico. In the Feather-weight (126 lb.) C. A. Robledo, Argentine, defeated J. Schleinkofer, Germany;, and in the Bantam-weight H. Gwynne, Canada, defeated H. Ziglarski, also Germany. While the Light-weight (135 lb) was also a victory for the British Empire, L. Steve~s, South Africa, beating T. J. Ahliquist, Sweden. South Africa scored again 1~ the Light Heavy-weight (175lb.) through D. E. Carstens, defeating G. RossJ,