Olympic Cavalcade

FOURTH ,OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON, 1908 67 a surprising put in the conditions·obtairting, was then 22 years of age, stood 6ft. 5 in. and weighed 16 stone 6 lb.; a year later he established a world's record of 5 I ft., which was destined to stand until 192~LDennis Horgan, second at 44 ft. 8! in., whose Irish record of 48 ft. 2! in. still stands, was born at Banteer, Ireland, in 1869. He stood 5 ft. ro in, and tipped the scale, stripped, at 17 stone. I have spoken already of Carrels, who was 3rd at 43ft. 3 in. W. Wesley Coe was 4th at 42ft. ro! in. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and had, at the Oxford and Cambridge Sports of 1902,.made an I1:1ter-Varsity re~cord of 43ft. 10 in., which he had improved in 1905 to a U.S.A. and world record of 49ft. 6 in. He also was tall and heavily built. - - 1J1~ fifth day produced a problem _in footwear. The Tug-o'-War is a highly specialized event. The Americans made up a_team by selections from tht:drjieavy-weight strong men, and for the pulling they turned out in ordin– ary walking shoes. The pplice teams representi-ng the United Kingdom had said, howeyer, that · t~ey woulcl pull as a. te<J.m which had !rained together or not at alf. They would have ne> part in a heterogeneo~s collection of strong, heavy men~who had not trained together _as a teamr The Americans protested against ~e footwear of_the· Liverpool Pdice, but the- Briti~h officia}s c~mtended, p·erfectly rightly, that the boots were ~uch as the police– men w_9re in the ordinary course of their duty and they must therefore be allowed to wear t:pem in the contest. In the Fimil the City ofLondon PQlice beat the Liverpool Police by_ two pulls to nil, and the Swedes retiring, K. Division walked over to take _the third place_medals. The U.S.A. team.- retir~<l-aftei one pul1 ·- -- - ~ _ The sixth day was a . goog:C(:me or th_e U.K. In t~e 3200 metres Steeplechase we ·plac!=d fouf_men out of six:. A. Russell won from A. J. Robertson, cU:K.; J. :t. ~isele, B.S.A., divi_ded them from C. G. Holdway and H. ~-Sewell,_ )ot:h U.K. w:- Galbra!tlf, _Canada, was 6th. - -- K R. Voight, U.K., won J:he Jive- Miles race from -E-, Owen, U.K., followed home by.J. F. Svanberg~ who had ruQso well in the Athens Mara– thon two years eq.rlier, and C. Hefferon, the South Af~can, who was to make .so great a showing i!l the Marathon late_r on in this Festival. Of the :first ten. places in the Five_Miles race _the U.K. took -4; _Swec;len, .2; U.S.A., 2; Canad~; 2 and South Afrka, 1. , - The U.K. won also the Three Miles Team race. - Then there w~re the two Hfirdles races in which the ~nfericans -clearly had . t4eir feet on their own heath. We had great 'h_urdlers like Kenneth Powell, the faij,lous Cambridge Lawn Tennis Blue;_. Eric Ht-!ssey, O.U.A.C.; Capt<l.in -C. ~· K]nahan, _a famous Irish -·soldie.r; Oswald Groenings, the world's 300 yards record .holder; A. :tf. Healey; Jimmy Tremeer 1 arid L A. Burton, the latter pail' finishing 3rd and 4th at 4QO metres over the l9w fences.; but ilie -u6_metres Hurdles brought out <!n ·- - __c - "" - ""="" ""