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...follows: One first prize ($750), one second prize ($250) and a third prize (honorable mention) to be awarded to winners in each of the following ten zones-U. S.; Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania; Denmark, Sweden, Norway; France, Belgium, Switzerland; Germany, Holland; Great Britain; Italy; Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland; Spain, Portugal; Russia, Ukrania. A grand prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the final winner, selected as the best of the first prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society of the Friends of Music. The awards, in all, total $20,000. Franz Schubert...
...Coaches Finland Team...
After the Olympics Mikkola came to America to study the manufacturing of farm implements and to learn more about scientific farming. He stayed in this country until 1923 when he was asked to return to Finland in order to coach the Olympic Team which was to take part in the 1924 games. This he did, and with his former team as a base he built up a squad which was destined to tie America for the first and only time in the number of first places taken. Nine firsts went to the Fins and nine to the Americans...
Mikkola has played an important role in the development of organized athletics in Finland. Since the time he was first appointed coach of the Olympic Team he has written several books in his native language on athletics, which have had an extensive circulation, and during the time he was actively engaged in coaching his teams for the Olympics he stimulated much interest by touring the country and making speeches...
...favorite occupations, however, are fishing and hunting in both of which he is adapt. Although Mikkola likes America immensely, in this respect he maintains that it is vastly inferior to Finland. But he is willing to forego the pleasures of fishing and hunting for the other advantages which this country offers and intends to remain here in the future...