James Brendan Connolly won a gold medal in the hop, step and jump, now triple jump, at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece in 1896. Just prior to the games he was a student at Harvard. They declined to give him a leave of absence to compete. He dropped out and travelled at his own expense. He would fight in Cuba in the Spanish American War which he reported on for the Boston Globe. He contributed to several magazines, including Colliers Weekly. He would author 200 short stories and 25 novels. Most of his novel were maritime related. In 1949 Harvard offered him an honorary doctorate which he refused.
This is a presentation copy of the book 'Jim Connolly and the Fisherman of Gloucester an Appreciation of James Brendan Connolly at Eighty'. It comes in a slip case with an interior folding slip cover. It is inscribed by the author and signed by Connolly below that. He usually signed "James B. Connolly', this is the first time I have seen a full name signature of him.
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