The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1920-07-08
PERRINE AMERICAN STAR.
Nezperce Boy Wins Coveted Ma
tional Athletic Honors.

$ The statement that Leo,
: Eat Perrine, the well know
Idaho University student iron
TINS city. is the best all-aroun.
athlete in the Unied States wa
well subusantiated last week i,
mat young man IS tryouts in New
York for the world Olympi,
games In Belgium. This youn,
man, who has put his home tow
ON the map in the world athletics
IS a product Of one of our bes
known prairie families. the son @
Mrs. ). Il. Perrine of this city
and brother of Leroy Perrine
who is successfully operating tn.
nome ranch northwest of town.
The following dispatches from
Mondays dailies give the story
OF his success in the national con
tests for the coveted place on the
American team:
New York, July Alive ives.
tern collegiate all around athletes
Including two from the Univer.
slty OF Idaho at Moscow and one
from Georgetown university,
earned the right to represent the
United States in the pentathlon
contest at the Olympic games in
Belgium at the final tryouts in
Brooklyn today. There were 90
aspirants for places on the teams,
as well as III. Masuda, Japanese
Olympic athlete.
The six men who excelled in
the tests in all five events, togeth-
er with the points they earned.
are:
Brutus Hamilton, University
of Missouri, II points; Robert
Legendre, Georgetown university,
IS; Everett L. Bradley, Univer-
sity of Kansas. %; Leon Perrine,
26, and R. N. Irving, 80, both
from the University of Idaho, and
Joseph l.. Baker, of the Univer-
sity Of Michigan, who had 80.
Perrine won the Rocky Mountain
pentathlon recently.
The pentathlon events were
running broad jump, javelin
throw, 100 meter run, discus
throw, and 1900 meter run.
University of Idaho, Moscow,
July rupert Neil Irving, Of
Rupert, Idaho. who won first
place in the national Olympic
tryouts for the pentathlon held in
New York city Sunday under the
auspices Of the American ANA
teur Athletic union, is junior in
the University of Idaho. He is
% years old. 5 feet 7 inches in
height and weighs ITO pounds.
In his three years at the Uni
versity of Idaho Irving continued
a brilliant high school record by
starring in both football and
track. After a year Of freshman
athletics and a season of S. A. IT,
G. football in the fall Of 1918, |
irving stepped into prominence
in the intercollegiate athletic |
world by taking three firsts in |
The northwest conference track |
meet held in 1919. In this meet
ne established new Idaho records
n the discus and shot and came
close to the northwest javelin
record, which is held by an Idaho
nan. He continued his successes
oy sweeping the first places in
he weight events in the P. A. A.
meet held in Portland in June.
Irving and his team-mate, Leon
oerrine Of Nezperce, will also en-
er the decathlon tryouts to be
leld in New York on July 9.
Leon ("Pat") Perrine Of Nez-
oerce. who won third place, is
'trictly a University of Idaho
product. When he entered the
University Of Idaho in the fall
If 1916 he had never kicked a
football, shot basket, or run a
ace. This year he marked him
elf as one Of the greatest all
round athlets that Idaho has ev-,.
r had by winning his II" in.
ootball, basket ball and track.
Perrine is % years old, 5 feet
/ inches in height and weighs
IS pounds. By persistent prac-
ice he has developed himself un-
il this year he was strong enough |
0 star at tackle on the eleven,
asst enough to play center on the
asket ball team. and versatile
nough to place in six events in
he dual track meet with Wash
ngton State college this spring.
Perrine can toss the weights,
urdle, pole vault, broad jump,
r do any Of the other II stan
ard events in a track meet with
bout uniform ability.
Lutte Mae Mitchell. the eleven
ear-old daughter of Sheriff and
FRS. A. w. Mitchell has been SER
n n