The Washington times., 1926-01-07

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international track and field
athletics will enjoy another big
boom this year with Americas
contenders right in the thick OF
things.
Young Nineteen Twenty Six is
getting away to fast start in
the matter of contests between
the amateur athletes Of the ma
tions.
Even now, jackson Scholz, OF
the New York Athletic Club, the
200 meter Olympic champion, and
Lloyd Hahn, the crack miller or
the Boston Athletic Association,
are on their way to New Zealand,
where they will meet the fleetest
men in their respective events
"Down Under"
AS the great Yankee pair are
steaming through the Pacific on
their way to test the mettle OF New
Zealandss stars, four European in
vaders are converging on New York
on 4 similar Charley Hoff,
Of Norway: Adrian Paulen, of Hol.
land; George Goodwin, OF England,
and Hubert Houben. Of Germany.
This great quartet is crossing the
Atlantic to follow the trail blazed
by Paavo Nurmi. Ffnland's athletic
hero, g. year ago.
The advent Of the European in
vaders promises to inject fully as
much enthusiasm into the coming
indoor campaign as Nurmi's hectic
foot.racing schedule did a year ago.
The appearance Of a fifth Eu-
rODean track luminnKy-Sten Pet
tersen, Of Sweden, winner Of four
standard championship on q sim
gle afternoons tentatively prom
ised, too. Petersen has received
an invitation to race here next
month and Is expected to cable
his acceptance In q day or two.
The Penn Relays at Philadelphia,
late in April, will be the scene of
another international foot racing
clash. The Pennsylvania officials
have forwarded invitations to both
Oxford and Cambridge to send run
ners across for the Franklin Field
classic.
Lord Burghley, the Cambridge
star, who won four hurdle races at
the international intercoll e gia e
meets here last year, and Arthur
Porritt. Of Oxford. who won the fur
long dash against Harvard and Yale
and the 100" against Princeton and
Cornell. last summer. are two Of the
British stars who are wanted for
the Penn meeting. It is understood
that both are ready to come II they
can arrange to leave their studies
tor the necessary time.
Porritt is especially anxious to
come to the United States this
spring. He has q score to settle
with the Yankee sprinters. Porritt
stated at the Princeton Cornell vs.
oxford Cambridge games. at Allan
tic City last July. that he'd return
TO the United States at the first
opportunity that offered.
The combined Princeton and
Cornell team will constitute the
only American collegiate aggrega-
ton to invade Europe next sum-
mer. The Tigers and Ithaeans
have accepted the invitation of
Oxford and Cambridge for q dual
meet at Queens Club, London, in
July.
Following in the wake Of the
Princeton and Cornell collegians will
York Athletic Club athletes who
will sail from here soon after the
national A. A. e.. games at Phila,
delphia to compete against Europeis
best in a ten-meet schedule starting
with the British A. A. champion
ships at Stamford Bridge, in mid.
July.
With Jackson Scholz back from
his Australasian tour, the Winged
Foot club will present a powerful
lineup at the European meets,
though several Of the n. Y. A. c.
stars are reported to be uncertain
about getting away from business
for the first overseas invasion that
the club has ever attempted.