Olympic Cavalcade

202 ULYMI'IC CAVA-LCADE programme emb;aced Athletics, Boxi~g, Wrestiing, Modern Pentathlon, Fencing, Rowing, Field Hoc'key, Weighr-lifting, Soccer Football, Polo, Shooting, Handball,Basket-b_all, Cycling, Canoeing, Swimming, Gymnastics and Equestrian events, which made up a total of nineteen sports, to which must be added _the competitions for Women in Athletks, Swimming, F~ncing ·and Gymnastics. In theYac~ting Regatt~, which took place in Kiel Bay, Great Britain won the 6-metre class an9 placed 3rd to Holland and GerJTiany in the Monotype - class. Italy.took th_e 8 metre class, and-Germany thG-£tar class. The U.S.A. - entriesfailed to gain a single Ist plac;:e. _ - In the Rowl.ng events, rowed over the Grunau course near Berlin, German oarsmen won all the -races except the Double Sculls, which Jack _ - Beresford, rowing in his fifth Olympiad, won with 'Dick' Southwood for Great Britain, :and the 8-oared race in which U.S.A. defeated Italy and -___ Germany: ""- - - - __ _ - - -In th~ Swimrfiing StaditJm the-Japanese might have retained the Aquatic Ghampi'orrship won at Lo_sAngeles femr yea·rs -earli<Sr but for the eJfidency of the: Ainericans;.:..~h6 owed much to-ilie-grj!Ge .:Of tliei divers, Dick Degener and -Marsh<.!U-'Wayt}e. Among the lad_y swi;mers ~ Holland; Hungary and Japan s~ar€d llie- Isr place --lion2 urs,- but Mrs.--D.- f>oynt6n-!iill, U.£.A., ang.Miss M:G~_string, U;S.A~,:- took p-remier ITono:urs· in both Di·vjng;events. -_Bas:liet-oall, which_I haa rrot seen at ·a Gel~bration since -the game was - given as a dispTayny both men and-.women atAntwerp-in 1920, reappeared. U.S.A. swept the board~ despite sJomewhat strange -foreign rules upon the observation ofwhich-the foreign -officials insisted. _ - - The Associ~tion f ootb(:lll contes~ supJ.111ed the us_ual amount of brawling and discontent, but there-:_was-only one real incidep.t. This aros~ through -the withdrawal- of' ilie Pi ruvian -national team, -owing to p-olitical inter– ·-feren~e from- .Peru and t~e l]lisund~rsfartding of the rules -~hiCh ~obtain at the Oly~pic G~es. The -Peruvians~ withclrew because, whe_n-they won - th~ir match again.st Austiiq, .and spectators_had inv ade9. t~~-fleld, !he jury of - the FootbaJI Federati'on -ordered _the-match to ~e replayed and Peru refused to accept that_dedsion. ~ ~ _ / . · _ - - At Canoeing, fot which Gr_eat Britain sent-three canoeists and a team manage_r to gait} experience, Austria gained three ISt places, Germany and Czechoslqvakia two each, and Canaoa and Sweden_e_ach ·had a single victory. Tlie Bntish Boxing team wa~ trained -by Harry Mallirr, who had become a pro~essional but ha~ previously:boxed in the Games ~as an amateur. ~The 01ympic _championships were well organized by rhe German Olytnpic Association and were urimarred by §ny single incident. In the - - Fly-weight W. Kais-er, Germany, defeatea G. M;:J.tta, It~i.y, whose ~om- - _patriot, U. Sergo, in· th: Final of the Barttam-'il,Teiglit, dtfea~ed J. Wrlson; - .U.S.A. The Feather-we1ght went to 0. Gasanovas, Argentme, who bea . C. Catterall, S. Africa. I. Harangi, Hungary:, claitned th_e Lig~ht-weight after