Olimpiada w Londynie 1908.pdf

The Fourth Olympiad

BEING

THE OFFICIAL REPORT

The Olympic Games of 1908

CELEBRATED IN LONDON

Under the Patronage of

His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII

AND BY THE SANCTION OF

The International Olympic Committee

Drawn up by THEODORE ANDREA COOK

AND ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF

THE BRITISH OLYMPIC COUNCIL

Together with the Full Code of Rules in each Sport

Complete Lists of all Competitors and Results

and over one hundred illustrations.

PUBLISHED BY

THE BRITISH OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION, 108 VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, S.W.

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE & CO. LTD., NEW-STREET SQUARE, E.C.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOWDEN BROS., 45 ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.

PREFACE.

T HE following pages contain the Official Report of the Olympic Games of

1908, authorised by the British Olympic Council. Every member of the

Council responsible for a section of these Games has corrected the facts

concerning that section in the fourth chapter. For any errors in other

chapters the compiler of the Report accepts responsibility.

I desire to acknowledge my great indebtedness for assistance received

in many other ways, and from very various sources, more particularly the

following : The Sporting Life, which published a separate account of the

Games that has been of great interest and value, besides many articles on

the Amateur Question and kindred subjects in its own columns ; The

Sportsman ; The Daily Mail ; The Daily Telegraph ; The Field, which

published several accounts and diagrams that have been used in this work ;

the National Review ; the official organ of the Lawn Tennis Association;

the Revue Olympique, and many other newspapers, magazines, and journals.

Their editors will, I trust, be good enough to accept this general expression

of gratitude for useful details, too numerous and scattered to be separately

acknowledged. To Messrs. Bowden Bros. the official photographers of

the Games, the Council is especially indebted for the excellent series of

photographs illustrating these pages, which were nearly all taken by the

same photographer who represented them in the Athenian Games of 1906.

A few others have been added, which were most kindly sent to me from

private sources.

A glance at the Table of Contents will enable the reader to dispense

with any unnecessary explanations here, for he will see that this volume

is the first, so far as I am aware, which has ever contained an official

report of the performances of some twenty different nationalities in twenty

divisions of sport and more than a hundred separate athletic events,

together with the code of rules under which each of these events was

contested. Owing, in part, to the early publication of this code, there is

no doubt that the attention of the world at large was far more concentrated

on the Games of 1908 than had been the case at any previous celebration ;

for in every civilised country Committees were formed beforehand, pre-

liminary competitions were held, and every care was taken to select the

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