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Preview Email me at this address if my answer is selected or commented on:Email me if my answer is selected or commented on Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications. Anti-spam verification: Rare 1904 Olympic Golf Medals Rare 1904 Olympic Golf Medals August 03rd 2016 By Dr. Tony Parker, World Golf Hall of Fame Historian Currently on display in the “Road to Rio” exhibition at the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum are two of the Olympics’ rarest items: a gold team medal and the individual silver medal for golf from the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to golf’s return to the Olympics this year, this was the last time golf was played as an Olympic sport. These rare medals, won by American H. Chandler Egan, were virtually unknown until their remarkable discovery just last year by Egan’s grandson, Morris Everett, Jr. Until this historic find came to light, historians believed all of golf’s individual medals from the 1904 Olympics at Glen Echo Country Club were lost.

Chandler Egan led the Western Golf Association 10-man team to win the gold medal over the Trans-Mississippi Golf Association and the United States Golf Association teams in the finals. In the individual competition, Egan, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion, battled for a runner-up place to Canadian George Lyon, who took home the gold medal. The St. Louis Olympics were the first to award gold, silver and bronze medals, and one of only two Olympics to confer medals made of solid precious metal. The 14-carat medals for golf were designed by Colonel George McGrew, founder and president of Glen Echo Country Club and were made by the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company in St. Louis. Unlike the medals presented in the Olympics today, which measure 3.34 inches in diameter, the 1904 Olympic medals were small in comparison at only 1.48 inches. The 1904 design features a set of golf clubs with a banner crossing with the word “Golf” inscribed along with a Scottish Thistle, representing the roots of the game of golf. On the pin of the medal is inscribed “1904 Universal Exposition Olympic Games, St.

Louis.” On the back of the gold team medal is written “Glen Echo Country Club Olympic Team Golf Champion H.C. Egan,” and the back of the silver medal is imprinted with the words “Glen Echo Country Club Runner-up H.C. Egan.” To see these incredibly special showcase items, come visit the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum in St. Augustine, Florida and share a moment of Olympic history in the “Road to Rio” exhibition. X Golf club time machine - Travel back to 1904 for last Olympic golf tournament comment For the first time since 1904, when mashies, stymies and niblicks were as familiar as birdies, backspins and the 19th hole, golf is set to return to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The absence of several top players in the men's tournament scheduled for Aug. 11-14 might keep adrenaline flow well below Ryder Cup levels. An untested Olympic course in a logistically challenged city might even make the experience downright uncomfortable. But the man who endures to win gold within the Reserva de Marapendi in Barra da Tijuca will have perseverance in common with George S.

Lyon, the reigning Olympic golf champion for the past 112 years. Lyon had taken up golf just eight years before the 1904 Olympics. The 46-year-old Canadian survived a lengthy format, even longer odds and tumultuous weather conditions on the final day in St. Louis to defeat Chicago native H. Chandler Egan. The grueling tournament consisted of 12 rounds in six days -- starting with 36 holes of stroke play that pared the field of more than 70 golfers (all but three of whom were Americans) to a 32-player bracket for match play. Lyon and Egan were the last men standing for the 36-hole finale on Sept. 24. With help from the next day's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, excerpted in italics, here's how that final day unfolded at Glen Echo Country Club: The last time golf was played at the Olympics, 1904, H. Chandler Egan won the individual silver medal and a team gold. His medals were recently found by one of his descendants. The Everett Family Collection A large crowd, including many of the most prominent golf players in the West, witnessed the match.

The crowd followed the players in spite of the heavy rain which fell when the match opened in the morning and during part of the afternoon. ... When Lyon drove the ball from the first tee at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning, rain was falling in torrents. A strong northwest wind was blowing, rendering long drives difficult. Lyon was an all-around athlete growing up in the Toronto area, competing in baseball, rugby, football, lawn bowling, curling and track and field, even setting a national record in the pole vault at age 18. As he grew older, he turned his attention to cricket and set a national record in that sport. Lyon was 38 years old and selling insurance for a living when a friend invited him to play golf for the first time. He was quickly hooked, and the next year he finished runner-up at the Canadian Amateur Championships, an event he would later win eight times. Egan was 26 years younger than Lyon, but came to the Olympics as the more decorated golfer, having won the 1904 U.S. Amateur title.

Lyon, however, was more mentally prepared for the Olympics than Egan, and the Canadian's steady play allowed him to win four of the first five holes in the final match. Egan didn't come through with a clutch shot until No. 6, pulling out his mashie, a club somewhat comparable to a midrange iron in today's bag. Both had much difficulty in making the sixth hole. Lyon drove twenty-five yards into the rough, and, after considerable trouble getting it out, landed twenty feet short. Egan used his mashie to lift his third over pools of water and landed near the cup's edge. George Lyon, the last Olympic golf gold medalist, was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1955 and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1971. Glen Echo Country Club On No. 7, Lyon was stymied by Egan, literally. In those days, a golfer wasn't required to mark his ball if it blocked the path of another. The situation was called a stymie, which was finally eliminated from the sport in 1952.

Egan didn't attempt to stymie Lyon, but when his approach nearly holed, the ball stopped directly in the path of Lyon's ball. Lyon was forced to putt around Egan's ball and lost the hole. Egan continued to chip away at Lyon's lead, scratching back to within 1-down after No. 13, but he could never wrestle the lead from the Canadian and sat 1-down with four holes to play. That's when Egan's driver let him down again. What chance Egan had at the thirty-third, he threw away by pulling his drive into the pond and losing a stroke. He had a twenty-foot putt to make on the green for a half, but the ball rimmed the cup. Lyon won the hole and was then up two with three to go. Lyon began to celebrate on the ensuing hole after Egan hooked his drive in the rough and then launched his second shot into a clump of trees. Lyon, meanwhile, was flawless on both shots, putting his second 3 feet from the cup. He eventually tapped in to win the hole and capture the match 3 and 2.

The newspaper report was hard on Egan, misspelling his name as "Eagen" in one sub-headline and shouting "American Champion's Nervousness and Adverse Weather Conditions Were Largely Responsible for the Result" in another. Nervousness, causing weak driving and erratic putting, is responsible for Egan's defeat. Lyon, hardened by years of cricket before he took up golf, was more at ease, though his style was less polished than that of Egan. Despite those observations, readers would get the scoop directly from Lyon and Egan, who each penned sidebars that ran alongside the main story. Lyon unabashedly claimed he simply wanted the victory more. Egan gave up competitive golf a few years after the 1904 Olympics and went on to become a course designer. Glen Echo Country Club I was compelled to play my hardest to win. I attribute my success principally to my long drives. I outdrove Egan, and it was mainly through this that I won. Egan, meanwhile, apologized for his bland effort and then explained he became burnt-out long before the grueling tournament. Candidly speaking, I would have been surprised very much if I had won.

I was stale from overplaying. It was even surprising to me that I captured the national championship, as at that time also I was "overgolfed." Egan would re-energize his mind and body and win the U.S. Amateur again in 1905, but he mostly disappeared from the national scene after finishing runner-up at the same event in 1909. He re-emerged as a respected golf course designer, mostly in Oregon and Washington, before dying of pneumonia at age 51. Lyon, meanwhile, lost in the finals of the 1906 U.S. Amateur before traveling to London to defend his title at the 1908 Olympic Games. The golf competition was scuttled at the last minute, as representatives from England and Scotland could not agree on the format. Most of the medals handed out at the 1904 Olympics were lost over the years (there was also a team competition, with all three medals going to U.S. squads), but the silver belonging to Egan was located last fall in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Egan's only child, Eleanor E.

Everett, had died there in 2012 at the age of 101, and one of her sons, Morris Everett Jr., discovered the silver medal, along with a team gold medal, in separate cases within a medal box at the bottom of a bookcase at her house. Lyon's medal has never been found, but his legacy lives on in many forms. He was posthumously inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1955 and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1971. He was known for shooting his age throughout his 70s. He died at 79 in 1938. Who would have guessed his reign as Olympic golf champion would last another 78 years? An Olympic gold medal for golf from 1904 | Christie's Corporate Social Responsibility Golfing for gold at the 1904 Olympics The remarkable stories of the 17-year-old prodigy from Chicago who won a team gold medal on the last occasion the sport featured at the Olympic Games, and the 46-year-old champion who celebrated victory by walking on his hands In August golf will return to the Olympic Games after an absence of 112 years.

Following the decision made by the International Olympic Committee in 2009, many of the world’s top male and female professionals will line up to compete in 72-hole individual tournaments over the newly built Olympic Course within the Reserva de Marapendi in Rio de Janeiro. Many of those playing in Rio will be household names to the millions worldwide who follow the sport — a far cry from the last time golf was part of the Games. In 1904 the Olympic tournament was dominated by leading amateur players from the American Midwest and a handful from beyond. Among them was a 17-year-old prodigy from Chicago whose team gold medal, one of only three known surviving Olympic gold medals for golf, is offered in the Out of the Ordinary sale at Christie's South Kensington on 14 September. The 1904 competition was held at Glen Echo Country Club on the outskirts of St Louis, opened three years previously. Today the course — designed by the 1896 US Open champion Jim Foulis, a native of St Andrews in Scotland — is largely unchanged, other than for the mature trees that now line the fairways. The Olympic flag still flutters outside the clubhouse. It could be said that Glen Echo C.C.

owes its place in Olympic history to the organisers of the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. Chicago had originally won the bid to stage that year’s Olympic Games, but the movers and shakers behind the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, as the fair was formally known, threatened to stage their own, superior sporting events unless the Olympics were moved. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, eventually bowed to pressure and awarded the games to St. Louis. A combination of global tensions over the Russo-Japanese war and the difficulty of getting to Missouri meant that many top international athletes did not attend. The United States fielded 526 participants across 94 events in 19 disciplines, which included tug of war, hurling and roque, a form of croquet. The next biggest national team was Canada’s, with 56 competitors. Great Britain sent just six athletes, while France was represented by a single competitor. The fact that the games were treated as something of a sideshow to the World's Fair is reflected in the performance of American George Eyser, who won six medals in gymnastics despite possessing a left leg made of wood.

Golf had appeared in just one previous Olympic Games , four years earlier in Paris, when a 36-hole competition had been staged for men and a nine-hole contest for women. For the St Louis games, however, the women’s championship had been dropped, replaced by a men’s team championship held over 36 holes. A young Robert E. Hunter demonstrates the swing that helped win him an Olympic gold medal Seventy-seven golfers — 74 leading American amateur players, chiefly from the St Louis area, and three from Canada — assembled for the competition which began on 17 September. As The Golfers’ Magazine reported at the time, ‘The entries for the Olympic championship were rather disappointing, particularly so in those from the East. The known apathy of New Yorkers for any Western event should have been taken into consideration.’ Among those who did attend was Robert E. Hunter, a 17-year-old member of the Midlothian Golf Club, one of Chicago’s most celebrated courses. At this nascent stage in the development of the sport, the Chicago area was regarded as one of the hotbeds of American golf.

Hunter had won the Junior Handicap Cup at the Midlothian Country Club in July of the previous year, at the same time coming within one stroke of the amateur course record with a round of 80. He went on to win the prestigious Chicago Cup in October 1903 and, two months before the Olympic event, played in the US Open Championship at Glen View Golf Club in Illinois where he would have finished as the top amateur had it not been for one H. Chandler Egan, a 19-year-old from Chicago. Egan was a tyro who won the 1904 US Amateur Championship at the Baltusrol Golf Club, as well as the coveted Western Amateur Championship. ‘I am not foolish enough to think that I am the best player in the world, but I am satisfied that I am not the worst’ Hunter was a member of one of three U.S. teams in the Olympic event, his made up of representatives of the Western Golf Association and led by Egan, whose cousin also played. The other two teams representing the United States consisted of players from the Trans-Mississippi Golf Association and the United States Golf Association, which entered late after other teams had dropped out.

In the 36-hole qualifying competition for the matchplay stages — which also counted for the team event — Hunter comfortably made it through to compete in the knockout phase. His rounds of 87 and 84 were good enough for 14th place, although such scores would likely guarantee any 2016 competitor a spot at the bottom of the Olympic leaderboard. H. Chandler Egan finished five shots ahead of Hunter, on 166, while the only non-American qualifier, the 46-year-old George Lyon of Canada, qualified on 169. Hunter went on to win his first match comfortably, played over 36 holes in the knockout stages, before bowing out in the round of 16 to Burt McKinnie. His conqueror would make it all the way through to the semi-finals, where he eventually lost 4&3 to Egan. H.

Chandler Egan, who captained the victorious Western Golf Association team representing the USA at the 1904 Olympic Games, and won the silver medal in the Olympic individual event George Lyon of Canada, the last man to win an individual Olympic gold medal for golf On the other side of the draw, the main talking point was the progress of George Lyon. An outstanding all-round sportsman from Toronto, Lyon had made his name as a cricketer before taking up golf at the ripe old age of 37. Three years after picking up a club for the first time, the fire insurance salesman won the first of eight Canadian Amateur Championship titles. In the heat of St. Louis, Lyon thrashed a series of opponents before squeezing past Francis Newton to secure his place in the final. A diabetic who suffered from chronic hay fever, he nevertheless strode the fairways of Glen Echo Country Club in thick trousers, an undershirt, tie, waistcoat and jacket, using his unorthodox swing to unleash a series of huge drives. Egan, who had won the long-driving contest that preceded the tournament, was tipped by almost everyone to win.

Young, successful and also a prodigiously long hitter, the reigning US Amateur champion was quite unprepared for Lyon’s opening salvo, which saw the Canadian drive the green on the 276-yard par-4 first hole. It was a shot that set the tone for the final — as Egan found himself being consistently outdriven, his swing gradually disintegrated. He eventually found himself two down standing on the 15th tee in the second round of the final. When his drive found water and Lyon drove straight and true up the fairway, the match was as good as over. A plaque on the tee at Glen Echo commemorates the moment, with the body of water it overlooks having been renamed Lake Egan. History of Golf in the Olympics History of Golf in the Olympics History of Golf in the Olympics Including golf's Olympic medal winners George Lyon of Canada was an Olympic gold medalist in golf at the 1904 Summer Games. Bettman/Getty Images By Brent Kelley Updated August 20, 2016. The history of golf in the Olympics is brief, despite the fact that it stretches back to 1900.

Which golfers have won gold, silver and bronze medals in the Olympic Games? Golf has only been part of the Olympics three times: in 1900, 1904 ... and again in 2016. The 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo are also scheduled to include golf. After that, the International Olympic Committee will assess and determine whether golf will remain part of the Olympics. Of the medals awarded thus far to golfers in the Olympics, the United States won 10, Great Britain two and Canada one. Of the four gold medals awarded to date, three went to United States teams or individuals and one to Canada. Here's a look back at golf's Olympic history, including the 1904 Summer Games and 1900 Summer Games winners. 2016 Olympic Golf Tournaments The 2016 tournaments was played Aug. 11-14 for the men and Aug. 17-20 for the women. Only individual medals were awarded, no team medals. The fields were 60 golfers each for the men and the women, with dozens of countries represented. continue reading below our video LeBron vs. Michael: Who's Better?

The tournament was played at Rio's Olympic Golf Course . See our 2016 Olympic Golf Tournaments page for more recaps and scores of both the men's and women's events. Men's Individual Medalists Silver: Lydia Ko, New Zealand Bronze: Shanshan Feng, China 1908-2012 Summer Olympics Golf was absent during every Olympics that took place from the 1908 Games through the 2012 Games. The 1908 Summer Games in London, England, were supposed to include golf, and some golfers traveled to the site to participate. But the tournament was canceled very late when organizers couldn't agree on the format. The International Olympic Committee voted in 2009 to bring golf back to the Summer Games for a 2-Games test run, in 2016 and 2020. 1904 Olympic Golf Tournament The 1904 Summer Olympics were held in St. Louis, Missouri. This was the second Olympics to include golf, but golf was dropped following the 1904 Games. The tournament took place at Glen Echo Country Club .

While 77 golfers participated - a major increase from the 22 who played in the 1900 Olympic golf tournament - those 77 golfers represented only two countries. Seventy-four of the golfers were American and three were Canadian. Medals were awarded to individual men and to men's teams. There was no women's tournament in the 1904 Summer Games. In addition, because only two countries participated, multiple teams representing different golf organizations within the United States were allowed to compete. That is how all three team medals wound up going to American teams. Men's Individual Medalists Silver - Chandler Egan, United States Bronze - (tie) Burt McKinnie, USA; Francis Newton, USA Men's Team Medalists Gold - Western Golf Association, United States Silver - Trans-Mississippi Golf Association, United States Bronze - United States Golf Association Gold medalist George Lyon was an 8-time winner of the Canadian Amateur Championship, first in 1898 and last in 1914. He later won 10 of his country's senior amateur championships. Silver medalist Egan was probably the most accomplished golfer to participate in golf's early Olympic history. He won the U.S.

Amateur Championship in 1904 and 1905, and was a four-time winner of the Western Amateur. He later became a respected golf course architect whose work included the design of Eugene (Ore.) Country Club and a renovation of Pebble Beach Golf Links . 1900 Olympic Golf Tournament The Summer Olympics in 1900 were held in Paris, France, and included golf tournaments for men and women. Medals were awarded to individuals only (no team medals). But these tournaments were so poorly organized and advertised that, well, we'll quote the International Golf Federation: "The 1900 Olympic Games were not even called that by the organizers of the sporting events; they preferred the name 'Championnats Internationaux.' ... (Y)ears later, many of the victors did not even know that they had competed in the Olympics." A total of 22 golfers participated, representing four countries. Only France, the United States, Great Britain and Greece had golfers present. The tournament was played at the Compiegne Club. The men's tournament consisted of 36 holes of stroke play while, while the women's tournament was only nine holes of stroke play.

The 1900 Summer Games in Paris mark the first time golf was included in the Olympics. (Note: Winners listed here did not actually receive medals, but other prizes. We're sticking with the gold-silver-bronze nomenclature, however, for the first-second-third-place finishers.) Men's Individual Medalists Gold - Charles Sands, United States Silver - Walter Rutherford, Great Britain Bronze - David Robertson, Great Britain Women's Individual Medalists Gold - Margaret Ives Abbott, United States Silver - Pauline Whittier, United States Bronze - Daria Pratt, United States Sands, at the time of these Games, was the head golf professional at St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New York. He also participated in two Olympics (1900 and 1908) in tennis. Abbott has the distinction of being the first-ever American female winner in any Olympic sport. But, according to her bio on Wikipedia, Abbott went to her death without even realizing the 9-hole event she'd played in Paris in 1900 was part of the Olympics!

Francis Field - WUSTL Athletics WUSTL Athletics Softball Field Francis Field Washington University’s tradition-rich Francis Field, now 109 years old, is one of St. Louis’ registered historic landmarks. The field’s first use came in 1904 for the Third Olympic Games, the first international games to be held in the Western Hemisphere. Built in 1902, Francis Field’s permanent stands represented one of the first applications of reinforced concrete technology. Francis also featured a third-of-a-mile track—a track that was used through the early 1980s. Following the 1904 Olympics, Francis Field became the home for Bear football contests. The first gridiron game at Francis occurred in September 1905—a 59-0 Bear victory over Westminster College. During the University’s halcyon days of pigskin—the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s—the Bears played major college football as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. There were even floodlights back then, an innovation quite revolutionary at the time.

At the height of its day, Francis Field seated close to 20,000 fans with a large section of wooden stands erected on the north side of the field. Francis Field has been the site of several great football contests, including the St. Louis University-Washington U. Turkey Day games, which drew thousands of fans. It also has been the home for the NASL’s St. Louis Stars in the ’70s, the 1986 AAU/USA National Junior Olympic Games, the First and Second National Senior Olympic Games, and the 1985 NCAA Division III National Men’s Soccer Championship. In July 1994, Francis Field served as a centerpiece for the U.S. Olympic Festival as 3,000 athletes were housed on the Danforth Campus for the country’s top amateur sporting event. In 1984, Francis Field underwent its first major facelift in nearly 80 years when the distinctive old wings of the stadium, which jutted out on an angle from either end, were demolished.

The seating was reduced to 4,000, and a new press box, a concession stand and ticket window, and a synthetic, eight-lane, 400-meter track were added. In 2003, Francis Field underwent a major renovation. The stadium was resurfaced with new concrete on top of the existing structure, improving its appearance. The stadium was made accessible to the disabled with the addition of two ramps and a new seating area, and the press box was expanded with the roof being repaired. In 2004, FieldTurf was installed as the artificial playing surface for the Bears’ football and men’s and women’s soccer teams. Francis Field was resurfaced again in the summer of 2012. HOURS OF OPERATION Francis Field is open for recreational use during regular Athletic Complex hours of operation. All outdoor facilities are available from 7 a.m. until dusk or with the close of all activity areas, whichever is first each day. The facilities are not available when departmental programs are scheduled.

John DeWitt: Two-time football All-American from Riegelsville won a silver in the 1904 Olympics - The Morning Call John DeWitt: Two-time football All-American from Riegelsville won a silver in the 1904 Olympics Evan BurianSpecial to The Morning Call John DeWitt: Two-time football All-American from Riegelsville won a silver in the 1904 Olympics The Lehigh Valley has a rich heritage of producing outstanding athletes who received both national and international acclaim, including a handful who are competing in the Rio Summer Olympic Games. One who brought some of the earliest recognition to the area on the Olympic stage is John DeWitt. DeWitt, who was born in Phillipsburg and later lived in Riegelsville, brought home silver in the hammer throw at the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis. DeWitt has the distinction of being the only person from the Lehigh Valley to be named a two-time college football All-American (later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame) and also win an Olympic medal. John Riegel DeWitt was born on Oct. 29, 1881, in Phillipsburg.

His mother's maiden name was Ella E. Riegel and his father was Silas W. DeWitt. Ella was a descendent of Mattheis Riegel, a Colonial landowner on both sides of the Delaware River in what became Riegelsville, Pa., and Riegelsville, N.J. Caption #RaiseTheCat: Sixers' success spawns a flurry of cat photos The Philadelphia 76ers are no longer the laughingstock of the NBA and their success has sparked an internet meme known as #RaiseTheCat. The Philadelphia 76ers are no longer the laughingstock of the NBA and their success has sparked an internet meme known as #RaiseTheCat. Caption #RaiseTheCat: Sixers' success spawns a flurry of cat photos The Philadelphia 76ers are no longer the laughingstock of the NBA and their success has sparked an internet meme known as #RaiseTheCat. The Philadelphia 76ers are no longer the laughingstock of the NBA and their success has sparked an internet meme known as #RaiseTheCat. Caption USC’s 2017 football schedule The Trojans will finish off the regular season facing off against UCLA. (Jan.

18, 2017) The Trojans will finish off the regular season facing off against UCLA. (Jan. 18, 2017) Caption Liberty's Luke Werner dominates Liberty senior Luke Werner picks up a technical fall over Easton's Mason Werkheiser Liberty senior Luke Werner picks up a technical fall over Easton's Mason Werkheiser Caption Bethlehem Catholic's Justin Paz on win over Lincoln Leadership The Bethlehem Catholic Golden Hawks improved to 8-3 with a 70-53 in the Christmas City Classic at Freedom High School. Becahi's Justin Paz talks about the win over Lincoln Leadership. The Bethlehem Catholic Golden Hawks improved to 8-3 with a 70-53 in the Christmas City Classic at Freedom High School. Becahi's Justin Paz talks about the win over Lincoln Leadership. Caption Parkland senior Sam Iorio recaps his 31-point effort as Parkland whipped Emmaus 76-63 Trojans ended a four-game win streak by Emmaus and handed Hornets their first league loss. Trojans ended a four-game win streak by Emmaus and handed Hornets their first league loss. DeWitt was educated at Lawrenceville Prep in Lawrenceville, N.J.

He went to Princeton in September 1900 and graduated in the spring of 1904. At Princeton, DeWitt was a two-sport star for the Orange and Black in football and track and field. In football, he played in the line, sometimes in the backfield, and kicked. In track and field, he specialized in the discus and the hammer throw. College football in that era was a brutal game of brute force. Linemen were lined up shoulder-to-shoulder to block for the running attack which was either a "buck" into the line or "sweep" around end. The forward pass was illegal. Also, the scoring system was that a touchdown and field goal were both worth 5 points, while a PAT was worth 1 point. Known as the "Big Four," Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale ruled the college football world. DeWitt, a big man at 6-1, 198 pounds, was a triple-threat. He gained national fame as an outstanding blocker and tackler as a lineman, was a specialist in the drop-kick field goal and point-after-touchdown, and could also play in the backfield when a pile-driving bulldozer was needed.

Although an injured hand prevented DeWitt from playing as a freshman, in his three seasons playing for Princeton from 1901 to 1903 the Tigers went 28-2-1. He was named a Walter Camp first team All-American at guard in 1902 and 1903. DeWitt was a Nassau hero already as a sophomore in 1901 when in the closing minutes of a hard-fought, 0-0 game against Lafayette, he was inserted into the backfield. The "Princeton Strong Boy" blasted his way through the Lafayette defense and rumbled 75 yards for a touchdown and a 6-0 Tiger victory over the stunned Easton eleven. As a senior in 1903, DeWitt was elected captain of coach A.R.T. "Doc" Hillenbrand's Tigers. The last contest of the season at New Haven became the game of the year that matched Princeton, which was undefeated, untied and unscored upon, against Yale, which was also undefeated with 295 points scored and only 15 given up. With the national championship on the line, Yale jumped out to a 6-0 lead.

Princeton later tied the score when the Tiger line blocked a Bulldog field-goal attempt and DeWitt picked up the loose ball and raced 70 yards for a touchdown. DeWitt drop-kicked the extra point to tie the score at 6-6. With seconds to go in the contest, DeWitt split the uprights with his 53-yard drop-kick field goal and the Tigers won the game, 11-6, and the title. DeWitt, who scored all of Princeton's points, and his teammates were the toast of Tiger fans everywhere. It was the first perfect season, 11-0, for Princeton since 1893. Meanwhile, competing for the Princeton track team, DeWitt was outstanding in the field events, especially in the discus and hammer throws. DeWitt's best event was the hammer throw, as he won the IC4A for four straight years. He set a meet record of 164 feet 10 inches in 1902 that was not broken until 1915.

It was also in 1902 that DeWitt had his best throw in his career as well as the best throw in the world when he beat the great John Flanagan at Celtic Park in Queens, N.Y., with a throw of 168-7. Flanagan won the gold medal at the 1900 Olympics in Paris with a throw of 163-1. DeWitt's personal best throw in the discus was 115-10. After graduating from Princeton in 1904 and as one of the top-ranking athletes in the world, DeWitt helped represent the U.S. in the upcoming Olympic Games in St. Louis that year. The modern Olympic Games under the auspices the International Olympic Committee that we enjoy today started 120 years ago in 1896 with the first games in Athens. Paris was host to the second Olympics in 1900. The third games were held in St. Louis in 1904. And, like in Paris, the Olympic Games in St. Louis were part of the World's Fair that was held from July 1 to Nov. 23.

Therefore, the inscription on the winners' medals read "Universal Exhibition" on the front side and "Olympiad" on the reverse side. The 687 Olympic athletes (681 men and six women) came from 13 countries and participated in 104 events in six sports. Most of the athletes (over 500) came from the United States and Canada because of the time and cost for Europeans to travel to New York and then to St. Louis. In the hammer throw, John Flanagan of the U.S. won the gold with a throw of 168-½. DeWitt won the silver with a throw of 164-½. The United States would not be host to the Olympic Games for another 28 years, when Los Angeles was the host city in 1932. DeWitt, who went on to become a prominent businessman, died suddenly on Monday, July 28, 1930, in a club car of a train while traveling from his home in Greenfield, Conn., to his office in New York City. DeWitt was the president of the National Bag Corporation of New York.

DeWitt was only 48 years old. He was survived by his wife, Helen Elise Casey DeWitt. Two services — one public and one private — were held for him. A funeral service was held at 11 a.m. July 30 in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church, 12 W. 12th St. in New York City. DeWitt's body was then taken to Riegelsville, where a private service was held in the home of Ida Riegel on Easton Avenue (Route 611). In 1954, DeWitt was posthumously inducted into the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. Evan Burian of Emmaus is a freelancer writer and author of six books including "Sports Legends of the Lehigh Valley." History of Golf at the Games History of Golf at the Games History of Golf at the Games ©IOC On 2 October 1900, twelve gentlemen gathered to play 36 holes of golf at the Compiegne Club, about 30 miles north of Paris. Though only a few of them may have realized it at the time, they were the participants in the first Olympic golf tournament.

Even many of the best golf historians will tell you that golf has never been held in the Olympics but, in fact, twice the sport has been on the modern Olympic program. The modern Olympic Games began in 1896 thru the efforts of a Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Coubertin chose Athens as the site of the first Olympics and the Games were a resounding success. Golf was not on the program, certainly one reason being that, in 1896, there were no golf courses in Greece. The 2nd and 3rd Olympic Games have been termed the farcical Olympics. Both were sideshows to World’s Fairs – the 2nd in Paris in 1900 to the Fifth Exposition Universalle, and the 3rd to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. In both cases, the Olympic events suffered from a lack of interest relative to the fairs. One other thing both Olympics shared was the inclusion of golf as a sport.

The 1900 Olympic Games were not even called that by the organizers of the sporting events; they preferred the name “Championnats Internationaux.” The events were spread out over six months’ time and years later, many of the victors did not even know that they had competed in the Olympics. Amidst this setting, it was decided to stage a golf event in October at Compiegne, organized by the mayor of Compiegne, Monsieur Robert Fournier- Sarlovèze. There were two golf events in 1900 – one for gentlemen and one for ladies, using the vernacular of the time. Charles Sands, of the St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, played the Compiegne course in rounds of 82-85 to win the gentlemen’s event by one shot over Walter Rutherford of Jedburgh, Scotland. The next day, October 3, the ladies’ event took place and was won by Margaret Abbott of the Chicago Golf Club, who played her requisite nine holes in 47 strokes. A third competition was held on the final day. However, this was a handicap event for the men, and cannot be considered of Olympic caliber.

It was, however, won by an American, Albert Lambert, (a ten handicap) about whom more will be said later. The events were a success well attended by the society elite as evidenced by a description of the time from Golf Illustrated, “The entries were numerous, the play good, the weather admirable and the company (by which I mean spectators, officials, and others connected with or responsible for the meeting) distinguished and enthusiastic. Amongst others were present – Prince and Princess R. du Lucinge, Mme. Vagliano, Comte and Comtesse Robert de Breda, Vicomte and Vicomtesse d’Hautpou1, Comte and Comtesse de Moussac, Lord Sudeley. ©Getty Images Charles Sands took up golf in 1895 and only three months later went to the final of the first Amateur Championship of the USGA. There he met the redoubtable Charles Blair MacDonald, and Sands’ lack of experience showed as MacDonald won easily, 12 and 11. Sands never again played in the U.S. Amateur, and that and his Olympic triumph constitute his entire golfing laurels. Sands was a well-known athlete, though.

Primarily a tennis player, he was the United States’ champion in 1905 in court tennis, the original form of the game. He is one of only two American athletes to have competed in the Olympics in three sports – 1900 in golf, 1900 in lawn tennis, and 1908 in jeu de paume (the original name of court tennis). Behind Margaret Abbott in the women’s tournament came Polly Whittier and a lady listed in the past as Mrs. J. Huger Pratt of Dinard, France. The three women were mysteries until research by Dr. Paula Welch, a sports historian at the University of Florida, unearthed their identities. Margaret Abbott was born in Calcutta, India in 1878 to wealthy parents. She learned her golf at the Chicago Golf Club but in 1900 was studying art in Paris, accompanied by her mother, who also played in the Olympic golf tournament (she finished seventh). By winning the Olympic golf tournament she became the first American woman to win an Olympic event (and only the second overall).

“Polly” Whittier, listed in older records of the International Olympic Committee as being from Switzerland, was actually Pauline Whittier of Boston. Also from a wealthy family, Whittier was a descendent of the famous poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, and in 1900 was studying in St. Moritz, hence the mistaken affiliation. Mrs. J. Huger Pratt of Dinard was the former Daria Pankhurst. Vacationing in France in 1900, she played her golf at the Dinard Club. A short time after the Olympics, Daria Pratt divorced her husband, later marrying Prince Alexis Karageorgevitch of Serbia, thus becoming the Princess Alexis Karageorgevitch of Serbia. Albert Lambert, the winner of the handicap event, also competed in the Olympic competition, finishing eighth with rounds of 94-95. Lambert was from St. Louis and when Olympic golf returned to St. Louis in 1904, Lambert would again compete, making him the only person to play in both Olympic golf tournaments. In fact, Lambert was the man responsible for the 1904 Olympic golf event.

Lambert was a wealthy man (this seemed to be a common affliction among Olympic golfers). He founded Lambert Pharmacal Co., later Warner-Lambert, best-known as the makers of Listerine. His avocation in later years became flying and he was the primary benefactor for Charles Lindbergh’s trans-atlantic flight. For his contributions to aviation, the St. Louis airport was named Lambert International Field. In 1900 Lambert played the Olympic golf event while on a business trip to his Paris office. On his return he mentioned the Olympic golf event to his father-in-law, Colonel George McGrew. McGrew was the founder of Glen Echo Golf Club in St. Louis and with the Olympics coming to St. Louis in 1904, Lambert and McGrew put forth plans to conduct an Olympic golf tournament at Glen Echo. Seventy-four Americans and three Canadians came to Glen Echo to contest the Olympic championship. They were greeted by a plethora of golf events – driving contests, putting contests at night under the lights, handicap events, flights for non-qualifiers and match- play losers, and team Nassau competitions.

Just two of the many events can be considered to be Olympic championships – a team event of 36 holes stroke play on Saturday, September 17, and an individual match-play event which ran the week of September 19-24. Of the six ten-man teams which had entered, only two showed up on September 17, the Western Golf Association and the Trans-Mississippi Golf Association. A third team was organized at the last minute from among the golfers present and it represented, very loosely, the USGA. The Western GA, led by current U.S. and Western Amateur champion, H. Chandler Egan, won fairly easily. (The previous week, Egan had defeated Walter Travis to win the U.S. Amateur. Travis entered the Olympic tournament but declined to compete, citing illness.) On Monday, September 19, 75 golfers teed off for the match play qualifying. First player off the tee was Raymond Havemeyer, donor of the Havemeyer Trophy given to the U.S. Amateur champion. Qualifying medalists were Stuart Stickney and Ralph McKittrick of the St. Louis Country Club, with a 36-hole total of 163.

A score of 183 was sufficient to move on to match play. Only one of the three Canadians survived the qualifying, George Lyon of the Lambton Golf & Country Club in Toronto. Match play began Tuesday and consisted of daily 36-hole matches. Advancing to the semi-finals were Egan, Lyon, Frank Newton of the Seattle CC, and Burt McKinnie of the Normandie Park Golf Club in St. Louis. McKinnie, a music teacher, was the current St. Louis city champion, while Newton was Pacific Northwest champion in 1902 and would win, in 1926, the first New England Amateur at the age of 52. Egan easily defeated McKinnie while Lyon bested Newton to move to the finals. Egan, based on his summer record, was the favorite in the final, but Lyon was a fine player. Before Lyon’s career was done he would win the Canadian Amateur eight times and finish second in both the U.S. Amateur and Canadian Open. Lyon was known as one of Canada’s great all-round athletes, having been in the 1890’s their top cricket batsman.

After five straight days of 36 holes, one factor against him in the final, it was thought, was his age, 46. The day of the finals dawned cold and gloomy and both contestants would fight the rain for the entire day. When the battle was over, George Lyon was Olympic champion by 3 and 2. His body, hardened by years of athletic endeavour, had pulled him through. While Egan was a classic stylist, Lyon had an ungainly, flat swing, relying on his natural coordination and great strength, which made him easily the longest driver in the tournament. After the match, Egan went to bed exhausted. Lyon went to the awards dinner and further showed his stamina by walking the length of the dining room – on his hands! And thus ends the history of golf competition in the Olympics, though there have been a few attempts to revive the sport as an Olympic event. Golf-mad Britain was to host the 1908 Olympics and it seemed natural for the London organizers to include golf on the program. They planned a 108-hole stroke play event at three courses – Royal St. George’s and Prince’s GC, both in Sandwich, and Cinqueports GC in nearby Deal.

The Royal & Ancient, however, became embroiled in a dispute over eligibility with the Olympic organizing committee and all the British entrants withdrew. Some measure of how the Royal and Ancient felt about golf in the Olympics can be gleened from their original response to the letter sent by the London Olympic organizers. They did not reply. Eventually, however, the organizing committee gained some support and planned the Olympic golf event. W. Ryder Richardson, Esq., secretary of Royal St. George’s, was on the Council of the British Olympic Association in 1908,. and was placed in charge of the golf event. The event then had to be cancelled due to lack of entries. George Lyon sailed for Britain to defend his Olympic title prior to the event’s cancellation. He was offered a symbolic gold medal but declined. Golf was not included in the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm. Although a few Swedish courses existed at that time, the sport was not very popular in Scandanavia. In 1920 the Olympics were held in Antwerp, Belgium, and a golf event was scheduled to be held at the Golf Club of Cappelen but again a lack of entries prevented its being held.

In 1936, a golf tournament was contested at Baden-Baden, Germany as an exhibition just prior to the Olympics. Adolf Hitler donated a trophy and hoped to present it to a winning German team. With one round remaining, the German duo led, and Count von Ribbentrop, foreign minister to the Third Reich, sent a message to Der Führer about the German lead, and Hitler began the trek from Berlin to Baden-Baden. The next day, when Hitler arrived, von Ribbentrop informed him that the British pair of Tony Thirsk and Arnold Bentley had broken a course record and won the tournament over the Germans. Hitler got back in his car and returned to Berlin, leaving the trophy presentation to the president of the German golf federation. Extract from “Golf and the Olympic Games” by Bill Mallon – ISOH 1904 St. Louis Olympics The excellent book Oops! by Paul Kirchner (1996, Rhino Records, pages 106-107) offers a fairly detailed summary of the St. Louis Marathon.

Two articles from the New York Times were valuable in the preparation of this story: The first, titled "Olympic Games of 1904" appears in the Wednesday, July 20, 1904 issue and summarizes the preparations made for the Olympic Games. Since readers probably were not familiar with the Olympics at the time, the article details a history of the games. The second article, titled "American Runner Wins" was featured in the August 31, 1904 issue on page 5. This story details the marathon and Lorz's eventual disqualification. The May 15, 1996 issue of Newsday features an article titled "Olympics in the Political Arena: Clinton to be no stranger to Atlanta" profiles the role that United States Presidents have played in the Olympic Games. A brief summary of the 1904 games is given. If you are looking for details, details, and even more details on all of the Olympics, be sure to check out The Complete Book of the Olympics by David Wallechinsky. There are many updated editions of this book which is published by Penguin books.

An excellent chapter on the 1904 Olympics can be found in the book An Approved History of the Olympic Games by Bill Henry (1976, G. P. Putnam's Sons, pages 50-57). Another excellent book is All That Glitters is Not Gold - An Irreverent Look at The Olympic Games by William O. Johnson, Jr. (1972, G. P. Putnam's Son's, pages 120-127). And yet another is The Story of the Olympic Games by John Kieran, Arthur Daley, and Pat Jordan (1977, J. B. Lippincott Company, pages 39-49). Finally, if you are in the market for a big, colorful book filled with pictures, check out the book Chronicles of the Olympics 1896-1996 published by DK Publishing, Inc. (1996, pages 24-27). These games were a sideshow in every sense. We usually have the image in our minds that the Olympics are really big business.

The hosting cities go out of their way to make sure that everything runs smoothly and that the best facilities are provided for the competing athletes. But, it wasn't always this way. Take the 1904 St. Louis, Missouri Summer Olympics for example. These games were only the third summer games ever held (There actually were no winter games at this time - they were added in 1924.). The original games were held in 1896 at Athens and were then followed by the 1900 Paris games. The St. Louis games could hardly be called an international competition. Since traveling overseas from Europe was extremely expensive at the time, the competition consisted mostly of Americans and Canadians (of the 681 athletes, 525 were from the United States.). It should be pointed out, however, that the Olympics were not intended to be a competition among nations at the time - it was a competition among amateur athletes from around the world. It was the job of the amateur athlete to find his way to the games at his own expense. No one cared if you couldn't get there. Needless to say, the 1904 Olympics were of relatively minor importance.

They were originally scheduled to take place in Chicago, but President Roosevelt urged for the games to be held in St. Louis because the Louisiana Purchase (World) Exposition was being held there at the same time to showcase the world's newest technologies (electricity, automobiles, airplanes, etc.). The Exposition organizers built a permanent gymnasium and a stadium with enough seats to hold some 35,000 spectators (This may sound like a lot of people, but it's really nothing when you compare it to the estimated 20 million people that attended the Exposition during its six month run.). The entire event lasted from Monday, August 29 to Saturday, September 3, 1904. There were no events scheduled for Friday, so the entire series of Olympic games lasted for just five short days. At this point you probably don't see too much wrong with this scenario. Unfortunately, when the games were actually held, they were a disaster. To start, if you were considered to be a minority, you had to compete in separate games. These games came under the high-sounding name of "Anthropology Days" which were held on August 12 and 13, 1904.

These games were designed to face "costumed members of the uncivilized tribes" against one another. Never-to-be classic Olympic games were included - mud fighting, rock throwing, pole climbing, spear throwing, and... you get the idea... Things went downhill from there. In swimming, Hungary's Zoltan Halmay won the 100m and 50m freestyle. Originally, Halmay beat American J. Scott Leary by just one foot in the 50m event. However, the American judge ruled that Leary had won. This ruling resulted in a brawl between the two, so the judges ordered a rematch. Halmay won on the second attempt. (They couldn't check the videotape at this time in history.) An American gymnast named George Eyser won two gold, two silver, and one bronze medal at the games. Quite a remarkable feat when you consider the fact that he only had one real leg - the other leg was solid wood (His leg was amputated when he was run over by a train - Ouch!). Now for the competition that they would really like to strike from the record books - the Marathon.

The marathon was run on a very humid, 90+ degree day. The 40 kilometer course started with five laps around the stadium track. The runners then left the stadium and embarked on a dusty, unpaved course that took them up-and-down over seven different hills. The path was marked by red flags that designated the way. A vanguard of horsemen cleared the trail along the way. They were followed by doctors, judges, and reporters in the newly invented automobiles. The net result was a constant cloud of dust kicked up into the runners' faces. They were literally forced to eat dust. The first man to cross the finish line was Fred Lorz from New York City. Lorz had completed the race in just over three hours time. When he entered the stadium, the crowd roared with excitement. Photographs were taken of President Roosevelt's daughter Alice placing a laurel wreath over Lorz's head. Lorz's moment in the limelight did not last very long. Just as Lorz was about to accept his medal, officials learned that Lorz had been spotted passing the halfway mark in an automobile. It seems that Lorz had been suffering from cramps, so he hitched a ride at the 9 mile point.

He then rode in the vehicle for another eleven miles, at which point the car overheated and broke down. He waived at the spectators and fellow runners along the way. Lorz, now rejuvenated from his ride, chose to run the rest of the race. Lorz claimed that he never meant to fool anyone - he just couldn't resist the praise and adulation of the roaring crowd. Lorz was immediately banned for life from any future amateur competition. This ban was lifted a year later allowing him to win the Boston Marathon (we'll assume that he was closely watched). So, if Lorz didn't win, who did? It was a British-born man named Thomas Hicks who ran for the American team. Hicks ran the race in 3:28:53. When he ran into the stadium the crowd was less than enthusiastic. After all, they had already cheered for a winner, even if he had been disqualified. Of course, good little Alice Roosevelt was again ready to pose with the winner. But she couldn't. Hicks had to be carried off of the track. It seems that Hicks had begged to lie down about ten miles from the finish line.

Instead, his trainers gave him an oral dose of strychnine sulfate mixed into raw egg white to keep him going. This was not enough - they had to give him several more doses, as well as brandy, along the way. By the end of the race, Hicks had to actually be supported by two of his trainers so that he could cross the finish line (essentially, he was carried over the line with his feet moving back-and-forth). Hicks was very close to death's door. It took four doctor's to get him in good enough shape just to leave the grounds, eventually falling asleep on a trolley. Wait! That's not the end of the story! (can it get any more bizarre?) It seems that another entrant was a Cuban postman named Felix Carvajal. Once Felix heard about the marathon, he announced that he was going to run. He had no money, so he quit his job and went into the fund raising business. He ran around the central square in Havana and jumped on a soapbox pleading for donations. He repeated this several times until he raised the necessary cash. On his way to the race, Felix managed to lose all of his money in a crap game in New Orleans.

As a result, he had to hitchhike his way to the games (not an easy thing to do in 1904). When Carvajal arrived at the games, he lacked any type of running gear. The officials were forced to postpone the start of the marathon for several minutes while he cut the sleeves off his shirt and the legs off his pants. He ran the race in lightweight street shoes. During the race, Felix didn't seem to fatigue easily. He constantly conversed with the crowd, even running backwards at times while he spoke to them in broken English. But wait, in keeping with the 1904 tradition it had to get worse for poor Felix: He blew any chance of victory by getting hungry. He first ate some peaches that he stole from a race official. He then took a detour into an orchard to munch on some green apples. Big mistake - he developed stomach cramps and had to temporarily drop out of the marathon. Eventually, Felix got back in the race and managed to come in fourth place. He probably would have won if he had not gotten the munchies. Hold it - the marathon is still not over!

The marathon included the first two black Africans to compete in the Olympics - two Zulu tribesman named Lentauw (real name: Len Taunyane)and Yamasani (real name: Jan Mashiani). They wore bibs 35 and 36, respectively. The only problem was that these two tribesmen were not in town to compete in the Olympics - they were actually the sideshow! Yes, they were imported by the exposition as part of the Boer War exhibit (both were really students at Orange Free State in South Africa, but no one wanted to believe that these tribesmen could actually be educated - it would have ruined the whole image). Lentauw finished ninth and Yamasani came in twelfth. This was a disappointment, as many observers were sure Lentauw could have done better - that is if he had not been chased nearly a mile off course by a large, aggressive canine! The marathon was over, but there is still one more little story to go along with this: It seems that two of the patrolling officials driving in a brand-new automobile were forced to swerve to avoid hitting one of the runners - they ended up going down an embankment and were severely injured.

In the end, the St. Louis Olympics (along with the previous Paris games) proved to be such a disaster that the Olympic Committee was forced to hold interim Olympic games in 1906 at Athens, in an attempt to revive the flagging Olympic movement. These games were not numbered, but were attended by twenty countries and put the Olympics back on a steady course to success.

Question: Which country came first second and third in the golf teams event at the 1904 Olympic Games at St Louis?
Answer: USA