Edward Gluckman had a very promising start to what could have been an outstanding career in track and field athletics. Along with winning 32 medals and 11 silver cups in his short career, Gluckman was also the schoolboy record holder in the shot put, standing long jump, 110 yards, and 220 yards. In 1904 he broke all records at the schoolboys’ meet at the Columbia Oval. That same year the St. Louis Olympics took place with dozens of handicap non-medal track and field events contested alongside the “true” Olympic events. Gluckman competed in three of these, billed as championships of the public schools athletic league elementary school events for boys. He won the 50 yards sprint and the shot put, in addition to finishing fourth in the long jump. Tragically he was only 15-years-old when he died of spinal meningitis in August 1905 in Manhattan.
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