Olympic Cavalcade

_......., OLYMPIC CAVALCADE K. Cornwallis, O.U.A.C., who had won the Half Mile race in the then 1 startling tim_e of I min. 56·4 secs. Crabbe had also finished 5th to N. F. Hallowes, O.U.A.C., at 3 miles. Halswell was the better of the sprinter– distance type of the two, however. It looked a good thing for Great Britain, with Lightbody among the 'also rans'. No one need have bothered, however, for young Pilgrim ran, perhaps, one of the most brainy distance races ever seen up to that time. Halswell was shut out in the home stretch on the last of the very bad bends in the track and distanced ten yards by Lightbody with Pilgrim coming through in the last 6o yards to pass him on the inside aml win by 2 yards in 2 mins. 1·2 secs. Not a very great time according to the modern marks made by Ramp– son and Wooderson, both of Great Britain, but one must, in assessing time values, remember those sharp Athenian corners caused by trying to follow too closely the original Olympic Stadium plan and the desire rather for beauty than utility. · Meanwhile, Pilgrim had stolen the thunder, and as dual winner of the two middle distance events, and probably the youngest competitor, had become the hero of the Festival. Lightbody, however, had the satisfaction of having already retained his I 500 metres title against the challenge of the Scottish champion, J. McGough, who had also run second in the English Mile Championship on three occa– sions, first to the great Alfred Shrubb and then twice td G. Butterfield, neither of whom were at Athens. In -the trials McGough beat the British Blue, Crabbe, and the Australian, G. Blake. -In his heat Lightbody beat Kristian Hellstrom, Sweden, who also was a member of the London Athletic Club, and was to have much to do with the promotion of the Vth (Official) Celebration of the Games at Stockholm in 1912. In the final McGough did not live up to his reputation as an absolute world-beater at the distance. In Lightbody he was up against a great distance man who had also the asset of quarter-miling speed. McGough still led a furlong from the winning post, but Lightbody was coming up very fast, and he won comfortably in the good time, for that track, of 4 mins. 12 secs. Helstrom was third and G. A. Wheatley, ofAustralia, fourth. But if Great Britain, up to that point, had been a trifle unlucky, England's traditional distance reputation was to be stabilized by H. C. Hawtrey. He, in the 5 miles race, simply galloped away from the rest of the field to win by 50 yards from John Svanberg and Ed. Dahl of Sweden. That dark– brewed and studious fellow George V. Bonhag finished fourth, ahead of the U.S.A. continge11t, and George Blake, of Australia, also got a place. Bonhag was a great distance runner. He had set up marks which stood up against international competition for a quarter of a century and he had journeyed to Athens with the purpose of capturing some event for his country. He had failed where he had expected to succeed, so he decided to try his luck in the newly instituted event the 1500 m<;!tres Walking race.