Olympic Cavalcade

214 OLYMPIC CAVALCADE - 9 mins. 3·8 secs. The Finns were predominant i~ that event, but Germany took a 3rd, U.S.A. a 4th., and a Swede was 6th-in the Final. On Sunday, 9 August, the Games came to an end, but that day was full of thrills and excitement. We have seen what was the strength of U.S.A. and Great Britain in both Sprinters and Quarter Milers. Godfrey Ra_mpling had fallen by the wayside in the Individual 400 metres, but he was perhaps the greatest 400 metres Relay runner Great Britain has ever had and an ex-English Champion to boot, as were Roberts, Brown -and Fred Woolff, who was brought in to complete our ·r6oo metres Relay team. At r6oo metres-the U.S.A. had a quartette who had not run before in those Games. They were H. Cagle, R. C. Young, E. T. O'Brien and A. L. Fitch, and -both Germany and Canada were strongly repr~sented.- Yet Lawson RC>bert– son- so strong is the power of a head coach in U:S.A.-refused to replace two of his planned run!lers with the__Negroes WilHams and Lu Valle, who had performed so brilliantly-in the Individual 400 metres. In any case, he - had four white men to rely upon, all _of whom _had run 400 metres well fnside 48 secs. ~ach. In that Einal Fred Wolff did 49·2 ·secs., but he was rapidly fading away - as he raced towards Rampling, waiting at the firs}-€Dcchange station to take over the batQn. Rampiirtg, av. ideal Relay runner 2 took over the baton fully I 5 yards behind )?hil Edwards, of Canada, 10 yards behind Young, U.S.A., and with a German 4 or 5 yards ahead of him, but he did nqt make the mistake of trying to catch his-field too soon. H<;! covered his leg of the race-in 46·7 secs., to hand. over actually~a lead of 4 yards, so that Roberts . was able to play with O'Brien when the American challenged. Roberts' stage qccupied ~ 46·4 secs. He .handed on a lead"of lialf·a dozen yards to - A. G. K-. Brown, who ·needed n0 more than 467 secs. to give the British ,. team _a winning time of 3 mins. 9·0 secs., as against U.S.A: 3 mins. 1ro sec:s. _ _ For the 400 metres Relay, b-;wever, Robbie a.d9pted.a differept policy, adding speed to his team by bringing in the tW~ great Negro sprinter.s, · Owens and Metcalfe, in place of Sam Stoller and Marty Glickman. He dtd ,not drop these two men out of any respect to Hitler ana the Nazi ideology because they were Jews, but both Italy -and Germany h9-d strong teams whieh must be reckoned with. - . The team U.S.A. fielded, therefore, was J. Owens, R. H. Metcalfe, F. Draper-a!)d Frank ·wy.lmff, who was thus to take part in his third Olympic · Relay Fihal, liaving run in 1928 and I9J2·, when his teams bFoke World feeord. Theyw ere to do it again,ior they averag€d a speed Qf 10·2 secs. per 100 metr~.s per man-ahd put up a new·World r ecord of 39·8 secs. for the _· 400 metres Relay, in which they defeated Italy 41·1 sec;:s., and GeJmany 41·2 S@CS. Botlf the Canadians and the Dutch.!<-the-latter were clisqualified- - -~ dropped the_baton and Great Britain, represent<::d ny C. A. Wiard, D. 0 . Finlay, the hurdler, W. Rangeley and Alan Pennington, had their chances