The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 (extracts)

c.,8 classes, but made bjs bet throw in the restricted style. Not improbably, therefore, the restrictions in both Discus and Javelin will be removed in future ames held outside Athens. Lemming was 28 years old, born at (Jothenberg, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, and weighs 14 st. He is in the Stockholm Police, and won this event at Athens with 17 5 ft. 6 in. His throw in London is the Olympic record, but he has done 188 feel in Swe<len. Halse, of Norway, could throw 133 ft. with the left hand, and had done 178 ft. with his right before the Games. A Diploma of Ierit was awarded LO A. 'alovaara, of Finland. XXVII.-SIXTEEN HUNDRED METRES RELAY RACE. (10J, Yards short of a Mile). '.reams of four :-Two to run zoo 111etres. One, 400 11letres. One, Soo ,.lf etres. FIRST H.OU..i:TD. Heat 1.-Hungary (P. Simon, G. Racz, J. agy, 0. Bodor), r ; S, edcn (S. Laaftman, K. Lindberg, K. Stenborg, and E. Bjorn), 2. Simon and Laaftman ran the first 200 metres for their respective countries, and the Hungarian at once took the lead. Running finely, he touched Racz IO yards before Laaftman reached Lindberg. The latter, however, went hard after his man, and when Nagy was sent off for the 400 metres his opponent, Stenborg, was only 6 yards behind. Striding out splendidly, the Swede was in front after roo yards of the distance had been covered, and, although ..i:-agy went all out, the half mile was started with Bjorn possessing a three yards' advantage over Bodor. For, say, 400 metres, it was a great tussle bet,\een the pair. Then Bodor, who ran so finely in the 800 Metres Final, went ahead. Bjorn endeavoured to catch up the Hungarian, but whereas the latter was running quite easily Bjorn was labouring. As a consequence, Bodor easily kept ahead and won by 3 yards. Time, 3 min. 32; sec. The time for the second half of the race-800 metres-was r min. 56] sec., so that Bodor accomplished an extremely :fine performance. Heat 2.-Germany (A. Hoffman, II. Eicl·e, Dr. 0. P. Trieloff, H. Braun), r ; Holland (E. Koops, J. Hoogveld, Y. Hcnny, B. Evers), 2. Hoffman led Koops almost immediately, and at the end of the first 200 metres Eicke was able to score 10 yards lead over Koops. At the beginning of the next stage Germany were leading by 20 yards, and Braun won by 90 yards. Time, 3 min. 43} sec. Heat 3.-United States (W. F. Hamilton, . J. Cartmell, J. B. Taylor, and 1\1. \V. heppard), I ; United l{ingdom (G. A. Hawkins, II. J. Pankhurst, E. II. Montague, and T. H. Just), 2 ; Canada (F. Lul-cman, D. Buddo, L. Sebert, T. Parkes), 3. Hamilton, Hawkin , ant.l Lukeman ran the first 200 metres, and Hamilton touched his man, Cartmell, 2 yards before Lukeman reached Buddo, with Hawkins sending Pankhurst a;,\ ay a yarcl behind the Canadian. Running beautifully, Cartmell gave Taylor a G yards' lead from 1\[ontague and Sebert, who were released simultaneously. Taylor just about held his own, but Iontague caught Sebert in the last few yards, so that the ord ·r was Sheppard, ] ust, and Parkes for the Soo metres. The issue cannot be said to have been in douut for one seconc.1. Just did his very best, but the man in front of him was speedier, and not even the Light Blue's great stride could save_him from suffering defeat by 25 yards. Time, 3 min. z7~ sec.