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Bravo, Charlie ReddTo Chirk* Limber? Redd of the frail frame md •tout heart, he of the flying herb, our congratuli-tion* To Grafton, »o pieture«quely ne«ti among the bluff* of the UUntu-, he hi* brought fame. To Wood River, where he attended one year of high aehool; and to u», a neighbor of both, he ha* brought fame.To the Olympiad he went, there to meet in athletic conten the greatett of the world. The Olympiad ia the athletic event beyond which there ia none; it ia the laat frontier, the ape*. To compote in the Olympied ia to engage in the greateat competition known to man, to bruth elbow* with the cream of the athltuc ability of ail the nation* of the world, and to *trive for victory a* did the ancient* who knew* the glory that wa* Afhen*’. To win in the Olympica ia to wear the crown that denote* world championahip.To auoh a conteat did Charley Redd go. A «!p of a lad, he i*. And he met giant* in hi* event, the broad jump. But the aize of hi* frame did not indicate the »?autne** of hi* heart, nor the determination. Charley, * pygmv among the giant*, un-abaihed by the fame of hi* opponent*, leaped. A •cant inch and three-eight* tepirated him from thechampion.Had Charley achieved the distance he had in the tryout*, had he reached the mark that haa been hta cut tom — he would have been championj but a»ay with the had*” and the if*”; he finished second, to c!o*e to the champion that he might be given the crown for part of the time, and he haa brought fame to hi* nation — he ha* aacended the great height*. The pride that beat* in Grafton’* heart ia the pride that only champion* in»p»re.Bravo, Charle* Lambert Redd.
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 04, 1932
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