Olympic Cavalcade

66 OLYMPIC CAVALCADE Just in attendance. Sheppard's time for 8oo metres was I min. p·8 secs., but finishing posts had been erected fllso at 88o yards and Sheppard crossed that line in I min. 54 secs., to beat the British record of I min. 54·6 secs. made by F. J. K. Cross, O.U.A.C., on 9 March, I888, but he did not break the world record of I min~ 53"4 secs., set up on2I September, I895, by C. J. Kilpatrick, U.S.A. There were Io,ooo spec-tators in the stands on the second day, and between the sh0wers they enjoyed good sport. The field e¥ents were going on all the time on the infield; there were swimming races i~ the tank opposite the grand stand; races. en the cinder path and bicycle races on the cement track surrounding the cinder path. Weather was clement on the third day, but there was nothing much for the spectators to watch, except the perfectly-timed javelin throwing of Lemming and other Scandinavian and Continental experts. There were two competitions: one with the javelin held in the middle, and the free style. Lemming won both, being 6nly a fraction short qf I8o ft. in the style held in the middle, which was believed to be the more difficult. In both styles the placihgs were divided between Sweden, Norway, Finland and Greece. There was not a single American entry for either style, but many from the United Kingdom took part, and their efforts were no mot"e weird than they were wond.erful! .Some propel-led the spear by making for the shaft a left– hand rest, as for a billiards c1.1e, and placing one Qr more fingers of the other hand behind the tail. Others grasped the tail, whirled the spear round the head, hammer-fashion, and just let fly, and yet others balanced the spear upright on -the fingers at the side of the. body and -launched it in a sort of bowling action! - The fourth day was again wet and cold and we saw wet, husky indi-. viduals floundering around on sodden turf wit~ sbots and discii. In the Discus Free· Style, America, headed bz the ·w2rld's best discus thrower, Mar-tin Sheridan, of Irish extraction, filled four of the·first five places: Werner Jaervinen, the-'Big Finn' who had won at Athens two years earlier, claiming 4th place by 3 ft. from A. K. Dear born~ Later -on Sheri3an also wo:a the Discus i~ the Greek Style with Americans placed I_st;2ndand 4th, Ja~rvinen nosing Dearborn out of 3rd place this time. Meanwhile, the I6lb. Shot Putting contest had been well worth watching. The United Kingdom had a faint hqpe in the Irish contingent, but James Barrett, a qty of London police constable, was temporarily incapacitated by a shot which slipped from the hand of an American competitor, landing on his ankle, and Dennis Horgan, although he back-marked young 22-year– old J. C. Garrels, the American hurd-ler runner-up from Bay City, Michigan, - was a couple of feet behind the future world's record holder, the late Ralph Rose, a lawyer from California. _ '- .Statistics about the giants who were placed in that Final ~re of interest. R. W. Rose,_U.S.A.,.who w~n with a new OlympiG Record of 46ft. 7! in., - -