Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-09

hero of these great international con- tests to be spoken of in saddened tones as fine men who have gone to the great beyond. In this. respect amateur athletics has suffered fully as much in recent years as has pugil- ism, from which so many celebrities have passed of late. Natural causes have sent several fine Olympic per formers to their graves. along with those who have made the supreme sacrifice for their countries in the great war. The war deaths are of course in the majority.
 The first Olympic hero to pass away after the Stockholm games six years ago was Ralph Rose, the great. Cali fornian, who beat the world at put ting &the shot in three successive Olympic meets. Rose fell victim to typhoid fever after an illness lasting less than 10 days.
 Jean Bouin, Frances greatest dis tance runner, was the first cinder- path champion to fall in the great war. Bouin was sergeant of in- fantry in a desperate charge after all of the officers had been shot down. His death scream was: "Vive former to yield up his life early in the
 
 sprinter. This fine runner, who num- bered among his victims on the cin- derpatn a majority of the finest short distance men in Europe, was a Cor poral of infantry. A shell from a French "55' burst at his feet and killed hlm instantly.
 Russia has lest hundreds of her best athletes in the war. and among these was A. R. Taipale. the giant Fin. who accounted for the discus throw at the Stockholm games. Tai pale was serving in the Russian navy, and was killed in fight between his ship, 9 destroyer and a number of German cruisers Still another, Stock holm winner to lose bis life in the was war Cecil Healy, the AustraI Iian swimmer, unquestionably one of the finest ampihbians ever sent out to win honors for the island continent | Healy, who held the Australian rec ords for 110 .yeards straightway, 15O l yards (tWo turnsl and 200 yards 1 (three turns) was a captain of in fantry, and was killed on the western front after going safely through the terrible Dardanelles. fighting. ~ l Greece lost her most famous ath- i lete, Tsci!itras, ill the campaign that | Greece and Serh.a made against Bull 1 SdIId IOllOWIIISs slIG uESI bdlhln war Tsciitras. who defeated our own Plat Adams, by a narrow margin in the standing broad jump at Stockholm
 was rot killed cn the battlefield. He passed safely through the fighting stage Of tho var, but died of pneu- morIa in one of the Greek demolil-
 ization camps after the fighting wa. all over.
 No fr:er lad has lost his life in tn,
 great war than Jimmy Duffy, thu Canadian Marathoner, who finished
 in seventh Pace in the race iron
 Stockholm to Soilentuna and return Duffy rushe l to the colors at hi: country's first call. He was killed
 in the Neuve Chapelle attack-prob ably by a shell from British gun
 The mention of Martin Sheridan
 sad end together with that of M. H
 Griffin, who once defeated the her,
 of Athens with the discus, abou
 completes the roster of the famou
 Olympians who have gone to tn
 great beyond since internationa
 competition was killed by the com
 ing of war. The list is long one
 but too true, but it's probably a yer small fraction of the losses that hay ) thinned the ranks of the Olympic con tenders. Dozens of just as fine youn men, but less famous, have passed ou
 in the great struggle that has drench ed half the world in blood. II a list could be compiled of tn Olympic athletIS who have bee wounded since the war started would run into hundreds beyond a
 doubt. We only know of those wh : were famous enough to warrant tn cabling of their names across tn ocean. We know, for instance, tha Arnold N. s. Jackson, the Stockhoh 1500met victor, now a major in th British army, has been struck thre times Dy flying shell fragments Jack } son was mentioned in despatches fc handling his battalion especially we . in one of the British offensives. Hans Braun, the promising youn ship architect who was also the fine: : middle distance runner ever turne out to the German empire, wa
 among the athletes severely wound
 ed early in the war. Braun was
 a brigade that opposed the early 1T | vasion of Alsace by the French, an
 lost both his legs after being struc by a French she'll Another gre,
 German performer, Lische, the hig
 jumper, who gave Alma Richards
 Utah such a fight for the champion
 ship at Stockholm, is now a cripp = as d result of the deadly effectivene. 3 of the French field guns. Lische ws r struck down while charging with h n battalion in the fighting on the eas a fronf