Olympic Cavalcade

BERLIN, I936 2I I - Hitler left the Stadium; a member of the despised Negro race ~ith his dark colleague 2nd had, it seemed, succeeded in driving the overlord of Nordic supremacy out into th~ pouring rain. ~ Meanwhile, Ken Carpenter had establishe_d a new· Olympic Discus record of I65 ft. 7-! in.i despite the rain. On Thursday, 6 August, there was_a surprise and also an upset. Thus far the Finns hadproved themselves the World's Javelin Throw~ng masters, and before them the Swedes had hela the game in hand and the Master of the world was Matti, of the famous Jaervinen stock: Only it was thought could he possibly be -beaten, except by his own pupil, _Yrjo Nikkanen, his compatriot Toivonen or Atfervall the Swed-e. But Matti the magnificen! had strained his back, as was obvious to the experts wh<? watched him throwing on the practice grounds, although the less experienced argued that the famous Finn was only throwing lightly'- just to -keep his hand in, but there was the suspicious circumstance that the long spear seem~d always to drift off its line of direction. This grew worse as the actual -competition continued:- So the tall, powerful German, Gerhardt StoeclC, won at 23S ft. _ 8! in. from Nikkanen; Finland, 2:32 ft. 2! in., Toivonen, also Finland, by 2 in. behind Nikkanen, Attervall, Sweden, 227ft. o-! in., and Matti Jaervinen, Finland, 226ft. u!- in. Alton Terry, of the still improving U.S.A. throwers, was 6th at 220 ft. 3! in. - . · _ ~ The first World and -Olympic record of that day was also in·a fleld event. This was when Natao Tajima_led,:in _the Hop, St~p aneLJump .at just over 52 ft. by a foot from_his fellow Japanese, Masao Har~d_3:. Outside the -– Japanese, Metcalfe, A!J.straUa, R0land Romero, U.S.A.. ; three Germans,- a" Pole, a·Finn and·a Hungarian wer~ the orrly competitol!s to-rea~~· tEe final. In "' the eliminations the Australian, Mefcalfe, who up j:o then helcl the World'~ record; was lying .2nd-, just short of 5I ft. In_ the final rounds, however, Tajima improved to -52 ft. ~Stin., and Harada, at sI ft. 4-! in., ·just nosed _ J. P. Metcalfe, soft. 10! in., out of 2nd place. The American, Romero, was 5th, about half a foot short of so ft. No British athlete qualified for the Final by reaching 4 sft. II! in. - ~ - - - For the Final of the I 500 metres the eyes and the anticipatioi1s of I IO,ooo eager spectators would be fixed on Luigi Beccali, Italy, who had won the Olympic title in I932; Jerry Comes, Great Britain, who had hunted hftr_1 home; Glenn Cunningham, U.S.A.; who had made the World's mile record of 4 min. 6·8 secs.; Jack Edward Lovelock, the Oxford University Rhodes Scholar and London M~dical Student from New Zealand, who had already – shown his superiority to U.S.A. top-line milers in sensationaJ matehes; the other American marvels, Gene Venze and Ardiie San Romani, Miklos Szarbo, Hungary, Erik Ny, of Sweden, and the veteran Negro athlete,_ Dr. Phil Edwards, running for Canada. _ - . li \ <?-al~oping Glenn would be all out for hls revenge for the defeatLovelock ~d mfhcted upon him at the Palmer Stadium, Princeton, a year previously. 'i ' r c., r 1 ~ ' ( . ......