Olympic Cavalcade

208 - OLYMPIC CAVALCADE spectators to watch the game of baseball which was played in the Olympic Stadium. These evening displays of certain games, physical training, etc., were, in fact, well attended features of the Berlin Olympiad. To !'evert to the afternoon Finals. Glenn Hardin, as I have said, won the 400 metres-Hurdles. Once again Jesse Owens was the brilliant leader of the Black Brigade. In the morning Mack Robinson, son of a famous Negro footballing father, had won his semi-final heat at 200 metres to equal Olympic record of 2I'2 secs., which Owens had upset by winning his heat in 2I· I secs. to better the World's record. He had also qualified in the Long Jump with the last of his three trial attempts. Mack again returned 2I· I secs. in winning the semi-final of the 200 metres, so twice that day Olympic record was beaten. Then Owens, WorId's record holder, defeated Luz Long, Germany, who was leading in the Long Jump. When Jesse's jump was measured it was just over 26 ft.-the first time such a distance had ever been achieved in Europe. With his next and last jump Owens cleared 26 ft. si in. for a new Olympic record. Owens had that day four times passed former Olympic records and twice he had beaten a listed World's record, and his victory in the Long Jump gave him his second Olympic crown at Berlin. A third Olympic crown for the 200 metres lay ahead of him. " In the 8oo metres Final Johnny Woodruff, no more than a young and inexperienced Negro undergraduate, gave head coach Lawson Rohertson some anxious moments, for he _was up against a very hot field in Mario Lanzi, of Italy; Kazimierz Kucharski, of Poland; Phil Edwards, the Canadian Negro; Gerald Backhouse, of Australia; Brian MacCabe, of Great Britain, and Juan Anderson, of the Argentine. Woodruff knew little of pace, strategy or tactics and so had to rely entirely upon the orders of his coach to get out in front and to keep out ~f all entanglements. This he either could not or would not do. With Phd Edwards immediately in the lead, Woodruff was pocketed towards the rear of the field, where he stayed for nearly a lap, when he came to an almo.st full stop, chased round the field, and after the leaders. Then he was out.tn front sailing' happily along, but Edwards caught him again, deprived hnn of the pole position, and Mar_io Lanzi, coming up fast on the outside, got Woodruff pocketed again. Coming into the home stretch Woodruff cleared Lanzi with what looked like a running long jump and took the inside berth from Edwards, to establish a 5 metre lead of his own, then he began to sag. Lanzi made a desperate effort and passed Edwards, and although he was gaining on the tiring Woodruff the latter won in 1 min.. )2'9 secs. by a very narrow margin. . For the sooo metres Great Britain had good representatives Wit~ British records and successes behind them in A. V. Reeve, F. Close an