Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-20
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Safe in Olympics

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SO long as the Olympic games
continue TO represent the peak OF
international athletic competition,
the names of two American athletes
will linger in the memory of those
who follow the turns OF the clnder
path. These Two men reached the
pinnacle of individual athletic brll-
liancy. one by winning four diff
ferent events in one olympic meet,
the other by winning two events in
four successive Olympic meets and
one other event in two successive
meets.
Alvin {. Kraenzlein and Ray Ewry
were the athletes who have inscrib-
ed their names on the olympic roll
OF honor.
Kraenzlein, University of
Pennsylvania star in the late sos,
won four events in the second
Olympiad at Paris in 1900 He
breasted the tape first in the CO.
metre dash. the 110-metre high
hurdles. the 200-metre low hurdles
and won the broad jump. His
performance is the only one on rec
ord in the history of the Olympic
games where any one athlete won
more 1n2n tuTee events
Ewrys triumph is even more i'm
,, pressiNe because il was achieved
over a stretch of eight years. In
Jump. the standing high jump and
the standing hop, step and jump.
He repeated this triple triumph Al
st. Louis in 1904. At Athens in
] 600 the Olympic committee elimin-
ated the standing hop, step and
Jump but Ewry won the standing
broad and high jumps for the third
time with apparent ease. In London
in 1905 he won these two events
again. passing out OF international
! competition at the conclusion of the
London meet.
| There are many instances of ath-
! letes winning two events in an
Olypmic meet and some who
have won three events. Harry Hill
| man, present track coach at Dart
| mouth and q member Of the 1924
! Olympic coaching staff, achieved the
! remarkable feat of winning three
! events at st. Louis in 1904. Hill
: man won the 400-metre run and the
! 200 and 400-metre hurdles. In the
| same meet Archie Hahn was
/ crowned as sprint champion with
| victories in the so. 100 and 200
| metre dashes.
| Triple victories have been scored
several times in Olympic annals, a
| trio of American stars performing
! this feat at st. Louis in 1904 when
| this country swept the field. Harry
/ Hillman, of Dartmouth. member OF
/ this years Olympic coaching staff
/ captured the 400-metre run and the
! zoo and 400 metre hurdles: Archie
!! Hahn was crowned sprint champion
with victories in the so, 100 and
| 2e0-metre dashes; while Lightbody
middle distance crack, ran off with
| the 500 and 1,50o-metre events and
! 2,5o0metre steeplechase.
! One of the most remarka BILE
! triples" and the last one on record
was scored by Hannes Kolehmainen.
| Finnish distance star, at Stockholm
| in 1912. when he won the 5000 and
! le,oo0-metre runs and the cross
country race.
Many double victories have been
recorded, but the increasing tendency
/ for athletes to specialize in one
! event has reduced the versatility
which formerly was so prominent.
| Paavo Nurmi, great Finnish runner.
! who won the 10,000-metre run and
cross country race in 1920 at
Antwerp. may try for three distance
titles this year. while Charles Hoff.
Norwegian holder of the world 5
pole vault record and aIl-around
star, may figure prominently in
several events. but these performers
are exceptions.
Among Americas hopes. Harold
! Osborne. Illinois A. C high jumper
and ali-around star: Glenn Hartranft.
Stanford discus and shotput tosser:
Jole Ray. middle distance runner:
and Loren Murchison and Charley
Paddock. among the sprinters. are
outstanding candidates fer honors in
more than one event.