By Bill Mallon
The 1904 Olympic video games in St. Louis have been either strange and arguable. one of many significant difficulties for Olympic students has been to figure out which of the occasions at those video games have been actually of Olympic quality. The video games have been incorporated as a part of the World's reasonable, and each athletic contest that happened below the Fair's auspices was once deemed "Olympic." those actions integrated croquet and water polo, highschool and faculty championships in soccer and basketball, in addition to the "Anthropology Days" occasions within which contributors of "primitive" "tribes" competed opposed to each other. the writer demonstrates, after nice deliberation, that sixteen occasions of the 21 total have been really Olympic activities and offers descriptions, rankings, and analyses for every (as good as for the 5 non-Olympic events). Appendices comprise literature when it comes to those video games, lists of noncompeting overseas entrants, and a advisor to all rivals
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Men Comp. Women Comp Nations All Events Women Events Archery 29 Athletics (Track & Field) 117 Boxing 18 Cycling 18 Diving 5 Fencing 11 Football (Association) [Soccer] 34 Golf 77 Gymnastics 121 Lacrosse 36 Rowing & Sculling 44 Swimming 23 Tennis (Lawn) 36 Tug-of-War 30 Weightlifting 5 Wrestling 41 23 117 18 18 5 11 34 77 121 36 44 23 36 30 5 41 6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 10 1 1 2 3 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 3 2 1 5 24 7 7 1 5 1 2 12 1 5 9 2 1 2 7 2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Subtotals Multi-Sport Athletes 645 14 639 14 6 – 12 3 91 – 2 – Totals 630 624 6 12 2 Athletes Competing in Two or More Sports in ¡904 [¡4] Three Sports [¡]—United States [¡]: Kungler, Frank.
P. Lucas. Entitled simply The Olympic Games ¡904, it was published in ¡905 by Woodward & Tiernan of St. Louis. It contains much more detail than Sullivan’s book on the track & field athletic events, but that is all it contains. No other sports are mentioned. Because of the importance of these two books, and their rarity, I have reproduced the introductions to both of them herein. They are reproduced exactly as written, except in a few rare *See Notes on page 38. 27 28 The ¡904 Olympic Games cases where I have abbreviated some names of sporting clubs, including all their errors of statistics and name spellings.
13. Lucas JA, p. 262. 14. “The Next Olympian Games,” The New York Sun, ¡3 November ¡900, p. 5; quoted in Lucas, p. 262, and Barney, p. 95. 15. Revue Olympique, January ¡90¡, p. ¡¡. 16. Barney, p. 98. His source is listed as Furber to Harper, 30 October ¡900, Harper Papers, Box 50, Folder ¡3, held at the University of Chicago. 17. Barney, p. 99; Lucas, p. 264. 18. Barney, p. ¡0¡. 19. , p. ¡02. 20. Ibid. 21. , and Lyberg¡, p. 24. 22. Lyberg¡, p. 25. 23. Coubertin to President William McKinley, 28 May ¡90¡, IOC Archives, Coubertin Personal Correspondence; quoted in Barney, p.