Olympic Cavalcade

BERLIN, 1936 207 The second day of the Games, Mond.ay,- 3 August, began with some consolation of the N~i belief in Nordic supremacy and national pride when Karl Hein, of Germany, d~spatched the 16 -lb. Hammer to a distance of 185 ft. 4 'ins. to win the championship and break the Olympic record. It has been said that Woelke and Bein were the first Germans ever to credit their country with an Olympic victory, but that is not quite true when one remembers the victory ofF tau Rad~e, Germany 5 over Ki!leui Hitomi in the Olympic 900 metres for women at Amsterdam in 1928. The other events for that s-econd day were trials in the 3000 metr~s Steeple– chase and 400 metres Hurclles, semi-finals of the -800 metre_s and the Final ~ of the 100 metres Dash. The day was_cold, the weather ul}settled, and there - had been some rain, but nothing daunted the hosts of spectators who-thronged the stands and filled _the standing places day after day. __ -In the 3ooo !l:ietres Steeelechase Great Britain had only two representa– tives, one of whom was Tom Evenson, wlio nad run 2na to Iso-Hollo, Finland, in 1932. ~ Neither of our men went through -to the Final, which was contested by the holder and Tllominep, also Finlan~, A. Dompert, Germany , M. Matilainen, Finland, H. Manning,- U.S.A., arid L. A: Lar~on, Sweden, who finished in that order. -£: . For the 400 metres Hurdle-s Final America had the great:GlennJ-Iardin, who returned 52·4 secs. t6 beat J. W. Loarjng, Canada, and M~ S. Whlt e, Philippines; a Brazilian and a Qreek were also pla~ed in -that Final. -In- the... - 8oo metres Fin~,l the Negro, Woodruff, beat_the Italian, M. Lanzi, and that great Negro, P. A; Edwards, mnning in"'the coLou_rs 9(,.Canad$1, who--had figu~ed proininently at p&yious Olympiads: From <?-reat Britain's p9int ~f v1ew the preliminaries al)d also the Fina1 were notable for the very dis– ~mguished running o( Brian MacCabe, who later was to gain-a Military Cross m the Western Desert~ "' ~ - ~ - That day, however, the grep.t even_t wa_s the 100 metres Final, in which America had th_e Negroes Owen_s an_d Metcalfe, and also Frank Wykoff, who had figured in two Wotld-recor.d breaking U.S.A.. Relay -teams and was that year to figure in a_ tHird. Holland, 0 Germany and S:wede~n a11 had"" great runners in that Final, which the Britisn hopes, Holmes, Penrtingt~n ai)a the late Arthur Sweeney, had failed to reach. • r _ Metcalfe got a bad sta~t BUt t~re down the path and cut down the ?eld, until only Owens was -out in front. Metcalfe lost to him by half a metre m 10·3 secs., which equalled the accepted_Olympic record. The follewing day came to be known throughout the Nazi Press as – ~ack Tuesday.:No doubt it was a bleak black day, but the fact was also - at the Black Auxiliaries ofU.S.A. were out in force. - T~ere were, if my~mem~ry serves me well, some 90,000 spectators -at the ~ornm~ trials, and the Stadium ':a_s _fill~d to its capaci;y of I IC:,ooo for the ree Fmals .of thecafternoon, and that mght tHere were upwards of Ioo,ooo ~