Olympic Cavalcade

OLYMPIC CAVALCADE ·inexpel'ienced, -had no Goach to advise him, nor attendant to see to his needs during th~ long race. - _ Carvajal had not proper athletic-clothing even. He would, indeed, have run the race in the clothes in which he had arrived at St. Louis, but for the _kindness of big.Martin Sberidfn, -the hish-American, who had emigrated ~t T6 years~of _age to-join his elder brother in the New York police force. Sheridan -wa_s born a( Bohola; Co. Mayo, in March, 1 88-I. In his prime he stood' 9 ft. . I in. and -.yeighed- I3i_stone. Altngugh perha._[)s a bit on the light side for tlfe hea_vy~weight field events, he was a·great shot putter and discus threrwei and-, with it all, a most genial persdnaHty. When Sheridan saw Carv-ajal-turn up for-the start of the ·1904 Olympic_Marathon wearing heavy w~llcing shoes, long trousers -and a shirt wiili long sleeves Buttoned round hi·s wrists, he-got hold of a pair of shears and with them trimmed the sleeves and the legs f6 make Felix look and feel inore like an._athlete. One can appreci– ate his point -t>f-view, for the Amedcans_throughout the Olympiads -have tHemselves be_en -so neat arid natty in tlfeir appearance.- - The-Cuban, as_ J:: hay~- s~id, did not live up to his own hopes o_f winJting -- - - the cOntest.· The victory ·went to T. J. !licks, U.S.A., and th·ereby hangs another- swry, ·which 'I will relate later in tl:lis chaflte.r:--Meanwbile, had _Carvaj_al-had. proper fr~fiflihg and advice; had he-undeisu;>od ariythin!fof -the mysfep~s of f>ace ami pace-judgment, I dQ m:>f say that he would have won, althougH-many experJs neld -that view, but I do -say that he wo_uld have lleen right in the-pkmte ·te>Wards the ~end- of. -the.-i"trn. ~ay bE; ills own .ebullient _spiriLpr_oyed -the greate; t -ljarrdicap· to~-l'irm: ,~- ~ _~ 7 - - _ Ifwas a :Oroiling~aay. The ailsif'a1sed by -the-motorists who cam~ out to --·see and fo follo'Y t~e olJiilners -was stillifig. Fel-i2f was ·a _friendly~little chap and_he pau;,s€d, nof~ iiifrequently, to hold· ·animated conversations with ~spe~tators~alorig the route:., 'Fh_~y found ir amusihg. to lis~efl -to the 'codversa- -tions wnie~_he-~arriecl bn in-very broh~n ~ng1ish. He pic-ked and ate apples~as. he progn~sse-cl and once he grabbed peaches from the 6ar of Mr. C. ·J. P. ~ -- - - Lucas and devoured-them aslie ran. - - ~ The rw_o-K;;dnrs, Lentatt,w ~~cl Yaii1a?ani, wnorri I ha~e;-me~tioned, both _ wo_rked~on oite of the con~esslons at the World's Fai-i.' They ran gamely and were a:mong 1he Y4 to fiil!_~h- of the J! starters. Len_tauw finishecl in 9th place, ":< Yamasani was I2~h--and- mig~ na-:_e -done:berter but for the fact thadre was GhaseCl"for a :r:_ni'le-Dr more otf¥he·roqte-h)Ta savage dog which pprsued him."' """ 1Amo11g :!_he ca§ualties -who-fell by the way -was- Bill Garcia, of San Franujseo.__Eight_mi'les -From tP-S! ,_finish ~e collapsed with a ha=morrhag~ of the stomach, orought cin, it-is: thought, by the du~t raised--by the metorists. Sftm Meflor,-<f famous ·r,unner from·- ~ew York:, was in ilie lead g,r--the half-way mark.-~ Then T. J. Hicks took. the_lead and riever_- again lost it. -~the handlers of the U.S.A. entries were-Hugll H. M<::Grath- not the hammer thrower, buu-Jle famous football cpach:-~and Charles J. P. Lucas, who re– counts _how he had to keep tfic~s going ~oh br-andy to such an extent that -" ~