Olympic Cavalcade

32 OLYMPIC CAVALCADE uncertainty of sporting contests. In the first place it was but the merest handful of Frenchmen who turned up to see the Games. They were not yet, as de Coubertin had hoped they would become, 'sport-minded'. There was also an accident to Arthur Duffy, the American and world's sprint record holder. He was regarded as the certain winner of the 100 metres dash– was, indeed, leading at the half distance when he pulled a tendon and went down in a heap. That was, perhaps, the first vindication of the principle of the late Michael Murphy, which has brought to America such long and such astoundingly continuous athletic success. Murphy's policy it was that whatever team he trained must be so perfectly balanced that should any champion athlete fail from any cause the team must always have another man, so nearly perfect as the champion, to take his place and to win the event. . Thus, when Duffy fell in the sprint, F. W. Jarvis of Princeton dashed ahead, hotly pursued by T ewkesbury of Penn and Rowley of Australia. That the Games of 1900 were nothing more than a side-show to the Paris Exhibition was proved on Sunday 1 5 and subsequently, for on no other day was there anything like the crowd present that one had seen at ~thens four years earlier, and would see again in future years and further countries. Sunday, in accordance with Continental custom, the Games went on, but there was a stipulation that in the week-day Finals the Sabbatarians should be given opportunities of bettering marks already made. The French went back on that arrangement and so Rudolph Bauer of Bungary won the Discus event, in which America's best thrower had refused to take part on the Sabbath. Americans who had won trials on the Saturday refused to compete in a Sunday Finals, but the great Maxey Long of the N.Y.A.C. put aside his scruples to win the 400 metres-he was world record holder for 440 yards on a straight-away course-Bill Holland of Georgetown was the runner-up and Schulz, a Dane, was 3rd. · So muddled were matters at Paris that Bascom Johnson and Charley Dvorak- who was to gain his laurels four years later-having been told that the Pole Vault would not take place on the Sunday, went away from the Racing Club Ground, leaving I. K. Baxter, who also did not object to competing on a Sunday, to win the High Jump at 6ft. 2! in., and the Pole Vault at 10 ft. 9fo in. The man whose all-round prowess should have for all time exploded the subsequent erroneous theory that Americans are so frequently successful be· cause they specialize merely in a single event was Alva Kraenzlein. Hewon the 6o metres dash in 7 secs., the no metres High Hurdles in 15·4 secs., the 200 metres Low Hurdles in 25 ·4 secs., and the Running Broad Jump with a leap of 2 3 ft. 6t in. at the same Celebration. Another man, moulded in the fashion