GUNS Magazine April 1957

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WHY AMERICANS LOST OLYMPICS
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ie Olympic overall championship and
ominated the shooting picture as well.
'heir six firsts to our three, were a far cry
Â¥o King's Mountain and Jackson's victory
t New Orleans.
During the 1912 Olympiad at Stockholm
nd won by Sweden, contestants had climbed
:om 484 athletes only 16 short years before,
) a resounding total of 4,742. These lads
nd lassies came from 27 countries. There
Â¥er 18 shooting events, seven won by the
ost country and seven garnered by our-
ilves. Alf Lane, one of the stalwarts of
ie U. S. Revolver Association, warmed up
is .22 S&W Model of 1891 single-shot and,
)me two hours and 60 shots later, was
ailed as the No. 1 pistol man of the
llympic scene.
During the 1920 and 1924 shows, the
rst staged in Antwerp, the second in Paris,
,e had our shooting inning. We mopped
p. We were invincible, unbeatable. We
lade such shooting history as we've never
emotely approached since. During the
ntwerp extravaganza we copped 13 of the
1 events. In the games of 1924, we an-
exed five firsts from a program of 12
vents. Unquestionably the greatest marks-
lan of the modern Olympic revival was
gt. Morris "Bud" Fisher of the U. S.
larines. He not only copped the rifle title
I 1920 but returned to do it again in 1924.
letween Olympics he demonstrated true
hampionship caliber by knocking off the
923 world's rifle championship. This was
big-time affair staged quite apart from
ie Olympics by the International Shooting
Fnion.
Undoubtedly the impetus given shooting
y World War I had something to do with
ur ascendancy as gunners. The big win-
ers during the Antwerp and Paris joustings
rere for the most part military peoples.
"hese were the phenomenal Marine, Fisher,
n army sergeant named H. M. Bailey, and
Iolonel John K. Boles, also of the army.
'here were a number of hot civilians as
fell, none probably better known than Larry
fusslein who won the free rifle match, and
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Mark Arie who took the clay target championship.
In 1928, with our remarkable record of
'20 and '24 placing us in the position of
undisputed champions of the universe, you'd
have thought that we'd have been keenly
insistent on the inclusion of shooting in the
Olympic program. Not so. The National
Rifle Association, which selects our riflemen,
and the U. S. Revolver Association, from
whence came the pistol men, sat idly by
and permitted the programs for the Amsterdam
show to be formulated without the
inclusion of a single shooting event.
T IS difficult to understand at this distance
I and after this time how such a thing
could have occurred. . Unquestionably the
members of the Olympic program committee
from other countries, recollecting only too
vividly the brilliant successes of the American
shooters during the 1920 and 1924 games,
were eager to delete the shooting events.
Their success in writing off the matches for
1928 was an omen. We have never performed
worth a tinker's dam since.
In 1932, two puny little matches were
made a part of the show. These events
consisted of a smallbore rifle match at 50
meters, and the inevitable rapid-fire pistol
silhouette match. We never had a look in.
The pistol badges were divided between the
representatives of Germany and Italy.
Sweden and Hungary shot off a tie for first
money in the rifle event, the Swedes winning.
In the overall tally, the Italians were
tops.
In 1936, in Berlin, it was the same old
story. Germany won the unofficial team
championship. Sweden was second, Denmark
third, then France and Hungary in
that order. It was during these Olyinpics
the shooting world first noticed handgunner
Torsten Ullman of Sweden. He won the free
pistol championship, and just to show he
could also shoot fast, wound up in third
money in the rapid-fire silhouette match.
The Americans also ran. It is significant that
not a single one of the ranking U. S.
handgunners of that day were on the American
team. It was not graced by such hotrocks
as Engbrecht, Hemming, Emmet Jones,
or Spavor. Small wonder our showing was
something less than mediocre.
At that time, shoulder-to-shoulder match
pistol shooting was almost entirely under
the auspices of the National Rifle Associa-
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