1904 Olympic Games: Complete Results For All Competitors In All Events, With Commentary; Author: Mallon, Bill; Hardback; Book

Author: Mallon, Bill
Results of the Early Modern Olympics; Hardback; Book
320 pages
Published: January 1999
McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 0786405503

The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to determine which of the events at these Games were truly of Olympic caliber. The Games were included as part of the Worlds Fair, and every athletic contest that took place under the Fairs auspices was deemed Olympic. These activities included croquet and water polo, high school and college championships in football and basketball, as well as the Anthropology Days events in which members of primitive tribes competed against one another. The authordemonstrates, after great deliberation, that 16 events of the 21 overall were truly Olympic sports and gives descriptions, scores, and analyses for each (as well as for the five non-Olympic events). AThe author provides a substitute for the results section that would have been included in the Official Report of the 1904 Olympic Games (had it been published). He includes introductions from two important works on the 1904 Olympic Games; results from archery, track & field, boxing, cycling, diving,