Olympic Cavalcade

THE ATHENIAN CELEBRATION/ 1906 55 - " Neither England nor U.S.A. could find a man who had yet mastered the art of throwing the long spear; nor were they to do so until many Olympiads had gone by. _ Lemming, meanwhile, had proved himself to be one of the finest heavy– weight men in Europe, and certainly the best javelin tFirower. He had been in the game since he was 16 years of age. In 1906 he was a tall, blond individual, 26 years of _age. The _Swedish Athletic Championships had started in 1896 and Lemming had won::.events using both the right and left hands. 18.93, Javelin 199 ft. fl·2 in.; 1905, Javelin 283 ft. 4·4 in., and Shot 73ft. II'4 in.; 19os-, Discus 196 ft. 5 in.; 1904, Throwing the Hammer n6 ft. 3·6-in., and 1906, 127-ft. 9·5in. - There was als0 an athletic Pentathlon comprising S~anding Broad Jump; Throwing the Discus (Greek Style); Throwing the Javelin; Running I Olympic St-ade, 192 metres (about 209 yards 2ft. u in.); Wrestling-(Greco– Roman style). This was the All-Round Championship of the World, and . the winner was the man with the lowest score. The ·two men .-with the - highest score dicL:?-ot take part in the final Wr~~tling cont~st. H. Mellan~r, Sweden, won by a si11gle point fmm Mudin_, H;_ungary~ Lawson-Roberts_on, U.S.A., _was rst in the Jump and the Run; Mudin won the Discus and the Wrestling bout, and Lemming the Javelin. Martirr Sheridan coru.peted, ~ut his knee went in the Wrestli,.ng bout, as a result of-the iD.jury he had sustail)ed aboard t1ie Barbarossa. , ., . _ ~ There was a Tqg-o'-War, won by Gerfilany from~Greece, with S~eden Jrd; a Dumb-bell contest in which Steinbach, Austria, lifted- 168~ lb. to · beat Camillotti, Italy, and Schneiderreit, Germany, and finally a' rope climb of 32 fC 8 in., won by .Kliprantis, _Greece,~ fiom Erofdi, Hu:ngary, and Kozantis, Greece. _ _ · ~ - _: - , - · - There was the usual I re metres H-igh Hurdl es. In that race H. Healy, of Australia and England, was leading over the last flight of 3 ft. o 'in. fences, but 1he ~meri:can, R. G. Leavitt, got up in ilie last few strides t o win by the barest inches. ~R.. Gouder gave Franee her only wirt in athletics at the Festival when he took the P-ole Vault at I I ft. 6 in. -er - All Greece, of course, remembering the victory~-of "Spi~idQn Loues, followed home by his compatriots in I896, was on fire-for -Marathon Day. They predicted a second Greek triumph, a_lld-all the arrangements were as perfectly made ip. 1-906 as they had been in I896. Greece, moreover, had-the largest entry of any nation, and all fifty-three contestants we-re sen~ _to Marathol! the day before the race. 'Ihe thing J:he Greeks qverlooked was that on this eccasion their rrien would have to face- the very pi(:k of the world's long-distance running champions. _ - _ - At the start oLthe tfl.C@ at three o'clock _ on .the afternoon o£.-May Day, – I9o6, Blake of Au~tralia jumped into the lea_clf.ollowed by Fr;;mk, D.S.A., and John Svanberg, S'Yeden. At I 5 miles ;!3lake was. still leading after being replaced for a mile by Frallk.. Then __ Billy .Sher~ing, . (;anada, assumed the . ~ -~~