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Copyright 2012 by Jim Reisler
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Globe Pequot Press, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, P.O. Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437.
Lyons Press is an imprint of Globe Pequot Press.
Text design: Sheryl P. Kober
Layout artist: Sue Murray
Project editor: Kristen Mellitt
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.
ISBN 978-0-7627-8659-6
IGNITING THE FLAME
ALSO BY JIM REISLER
Cash and Carry: The Spectacular Rise and Hard Fall of C. C. Pyle
The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees, October 13, 1960
A Great Day in Cooperstown
Guys, Dolls & Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball
Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend
Voices of the Oral Deaf
Babe Ruth Slept Here: The Baseball Landmarks of New York City
Black Writers, Black Baseball
For Tobie and Julia
As a runner, I was fortunate to have been a member of several teamsat Lincoln High School in my hometown of Canton, Ohio; at Bowling Green State University; and the United States Olympic team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where I captured the gold medal in the 800 Meters.
Competing in the Olympic Games is an interesting endeavor. On the one hand, you are competing for your country, while on the other hand, you are competing for yourself. It is an intriguing mix of pride in country and pride in self. While I will always be proud of my accomplishment at the Munich Games, I am just as proud of being a part of the truly special fraternity of US Olympians.
Knowing what it took to win in Munich gives me a real reverence for the Olympians who came before me, and especially for the pioneers who started it all. What Robert Garrett, Thomas Burke, James Connolly, the Paine brothers, and the other members of the first US Olympic team accomplished in Athens went well beyond anything they did at the track or the shooting range. Their memorable performances were integral to creating the American Olympic movementand making it possible for future generations to become Olympians as well.
So to those first US Olympians, I say thank you. I hope youll enjoy getting to know them as much as I have.
DAVE WOTTLE
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
The term Ivy League is well known, generally referring to eight institutions of higher learning in the northeast United StatesHarvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and Cornell universities, the University of Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth College. Ivy League schools compete in an athletic conference of that name and are best known for academic excellence and selectivity in admissions. So in the spirit of full disclosure, this book refers to Ivy Leaguers to describe members of the 1896 US Olympic team, though the term would not appear in print for another three decades. According to The Yale Book of Quotations, the 1930s-era New York Tribune sports editor Stanley Woodward was the first to use the phrase in print, taking it from Caswell Adams, a colleague. While comparing the merits of Fordhams powerful football team to those of Princeton and Columbia, Adams remarked disparagingly of the latter two, saying they were only Ivy League. Woodward made note of the term and printed it the next day. A proportion of our eastern ivy colleges are meeting little fellows another Saturday before plunging into the strife and the turmoil, Woodward wrote October 14, 1933, in describing the football season.
Note that Woodward used the term, ivy college, not Ivy League as Adams is said to have used. So there is a discrepancy in the theory, although it seems probable the terms ivy college and the later Ivy League came from the sports world, particularly in 1954 with the formal start of the Ivy League conference.
Arthur Blake (Boston Athletic AssociationBAA) Track and Field1,500 meters, Marathon
Thomas Burke (BAA) Track and Field100 Meters, 400 Meters
Ellery Clark (BAA; Harvard) Track and FieldLong Jump, High Jump
James Connolly (Suffolk Athletic Club, South Boston) Track and FieldTriple Jump, Long Jump, High Jump
Thomas Curtis (BAA) Track and Field110-Meter High Hurdles, 100 Meters
Robert Garrett (Princeton) Track and FieldDiscus, Shot Put, Long Jump, High Jump
William Hoyt (BAA; Harvard) Track and FieldPole Vault, 110-Meter High Hurdles
Herbert Jamison (Princeton) Track and Field400 Meters
Francis Lane (Princeton) Track and Field100 Meters
John Paine (BAA) Shooting25-Meter Military Revolver
Sumner Paine (BAA) ShootingFree Pistol, 25-Meter Military Revolver
Albert Tyler (Princeton) Track and FieldPole Vault
Charles Waldstein (also known as Walston) (IOC) Shooting
Gardner Williams (BAA) Swimming
Launceston Elliot (Scotland/Great Britain) Gymnastics, Weight Lifting, Track and Field
Edwin Flack (Australia) Track and Field800 Meters, 1,500 Meters
Alfrd Hajs (Hungary) Swimming100-Meter Freestyle, 1,200-Meter Freestyle
Spiridon Louis (Greece) Track and FieldMarathon
George Robertson (Great Britain) Track and Field, Tennis, and Author of the Olympic Ode
Eben Alexander: US Ambassador to Greece, Romania, and Serbia
Eugene Andrews: Cornell Archaeologist and Journalist
Baron Pierre de Coubertin: Founder of Modern Olympic Games
Basil Gildersleeve: Journalist
John Graham (BAA): Manager of US Track and Field Team
Crown Prince Constantine of Greece: Olympic Supporter and Benefactor
George I, King of Greece: Olympic Supporter and Benefactor
Burton Holmes: World Traveler, Ace Photographer and Journalist, and Chronicler of the 1896 Olympic Games
Albert Meyer (Germany): Influential Photographer and Chronicler of the 1896 Olympic Games
Olga, Queen of Greece: Olympic Supporter and Benefactor
Rufus B. Richardson: Journalist
William Milligan Sloane: Princeton Professor and Leader of US Olympic Movement
James Sullivan: Director of US Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)
Benjamin Ide: Wheeler Cornell Archaeology Professor and Spectator
ELLERY CLARK HAD AN ISSUE. A HARVARD STUDENT WHO WAS ABOARD the SS Fulda on his way to Athens to compete in the 1896 Olympic Games, Clark wanted desperately to practice his specialty, the high jump. But the massive tankers constant pitching and rolling in the choppy Atlantic Ocean made practicing the event on the ship deck next to impossible. In the turbulence of open waters, a successful practice jump depended on the angle of the ship. If the deck was going up, about two feet was the limit; if [it were headed] down, there came the glorious sensation of flying through space, Clark said. A worlds record appeared to be surpassed with ease; and your only fear was of overstaying your time in the air, and landing, not upon the decks again, but in the wake astern.
In another part of the SS Fulda, James Connolly faced his own dilemma. Clarks teammate at Harvard and headed to Athens to take part in the triple, long, and high jumps, Connolly had strained his back working out in the college gymnasium only two days before sailing. For now, he could do little more to ease his discomfort than take daily walks around deck, sleep in the oversized steamer chairsand hope he would feel better. So hour after hour each day, Connolly stretched out in his steamer chair, content with just sitting there and looking out on the blue sea through the open rails, he recalled. At the same time Connolly harbored a desperate fear that the injury would fail to heal in time for the start of the Games, he vowed to maintain an upbeat perspective by absorbing the excitement and reveling in the adventure. After all, the Games were only part of the voyage, the Bostonian said. Here I was sailing the high seas, and Athens would be there when I got there It was swell. Just to be gazing out on the deep blue waters was satisfying something deep inside of me.
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