The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-04
(By Ed Hughes

While indications strongly point to another Olympic triumph for Uncle Sam when the nations of the world clash for the Athletic supremacy at Antwerp this year your Uncle isn't so conceited that he isn't expecting a few reverses here and there during the games. He realizes that he hasn't an absolute corner on all the ath- letic marvels in the universe. In fact the defeat of the formidable American hockey team which it had been confidently predicted, would "clean up'' at Antwerp has brought the old boy to an even keener sense of this realization. And when Sam uel, your Uncle, takes inventory of other probable point winners at Antwerp who will not sport the American shield on their chests, one of the first thoughts concerns Cor poral A. c. Guillemot of the French army.
 At present writing, considering the dearth of American material for the long distances, and the GauIs tri- umphs over the pick of the British distance stars, Guillemot looms up as an almost certain winner of the 5, 900 and 10000 meter runs. Fred Taller, the national 10 mile champion is the only Yankee today who would ap- pear to have anything like an even chance to beat the Frenchman, a1- though it is possible we may develop others in the meantime. Athletic phenomenons spring up over night when they do appear.
 Gui11emot bears the same relation to the French public in track athlet- ics as does Georges Carpenter in nJ1o-i1iSr11 Jo ie crowned king, and justly so. Cor poral Guilleaot, like Carpenter, has l upheld the newly established French tradition of triumphant athletic prow- ess. Did he not humble Great Bri- tain's premier distance performers on their own soil, in their own beastly weather, in the blue ribbon cross country championship event?
 The little Frenchman, who is said | to closely resemble our own Joie Ray ] in build and running form, competed i for the first time in his life at the l ten mile route when he won the i English championship. Guillemot,
 with characteristic Ga1lic zeal. shot 1 into the lead at the very outset of the
 test and was never headed. The Windsor fences and yawning pluvian l hazards, which it was supposed would 1 i easiest sort of obstacles for his skill
 and enthusiasm. He romped home a
 full three hundred yards in front ot l England's distance pride, Sergeant C. | T. Clibbon. It was a bitter blow to ! British pride but the experts at once | perceived that a genuine champion
 had arrived and they were the first | to congratulate Guil1emot for his great performance
 A week following this nerve rack ing achievement the flying Corpora, | won the French cross-country cham | pionship. Keen and unexpected op-
 position arose in the persons of Cor let and Vignaud, over whom Guile
 mot was expected to excel handi1y Near the finish the latter sprintec
 and passed the fayorite. Guil1emo ot
 with defeat staring him in the face
 pulled himself together, and by z
 desperate finish breasted the tape eight feet in front of Vignaud- Hs has the pluck of a bulldog and the
 stamina of an elk
 Corporal Guillemot has ten months
 more to serve in the French Army
 He will have to obtain a furlough t.
 compete at Antwerp this summer
 But representing possible victory fo.
 France in four events, it is ju
 dicious bet that the Corporal will no I be e'in charge of quarters the day