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...Libby of Dartmouth being his rivals. A ten mile race is also planned in which four leading American marathoners are entered. Miles and Hanigan of the B. A. A. will fight it out in this race with Michelson of the Cygnet A. C., and Koski of the Finnish-American...
...making every possible effort to assemble as excellent a field as possible to push Wide to a record. Ritola was invited to meet Wide, but the noted Finnish star refused to race the Swedish runner at any distance less than three miles. Theobald, a distance man who achieved an excellent reputation in his races for Columbia last year, is another star under consideration. It is reported that Cox, a sophomore at Penn State whose brilliant record during the past few years has gained him a ranking as one of the country's leading runners at distances over one mile...
Mikkola was born in Helsingfoors, Finland, on January 15, 1886, where he lived and went to both public and private schools. After he graduated from the academy which corresponds to our high schools he entered a Finnish university from which he has a degree as a technical engineer. In his capacity of engineer he took a position in a company which manufactured and sold farm machinery, but at the same time, as is customary for business men in Finland, he held a membership in an athletic club...
...because of the part he had taken in the development of many of the star athletes of the Helsingfoors Athletic Club, he was appointed coach of the Finnish Olympic Team which was to participate in the following year at Antwerp. Mikkola immediately began a systematic combing of the country for prospective athletes and developed a team which made an excellent showing in the 1920 games...
...inclined to talk about his own accomplishments but is willing to discuss athletics in general. When asked why it is that the Fins are the outstanding long distance runners of the world he said that he believes it due to the fact that for hundreds of years the Finnish people have been forced to struggle for existence in the face of hardships entailed be the rigors of climate and a soil but little adapted to agriculture. This lends them the spirit to fight against odds so essential to long distance runners, and the centuries of hard work have geven them...