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...Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that the 1940 Olympics would be awarded to Helsingfors, the Finnish city whose bid had been outvoted (36 to 27) at the committee meeting in 1936. Peace-loving Finland, a land of Grade A athletes, including Runners Paavo Nurmi, Hannes Kolehmainen, Gunnar Hoeckert, has never been host to the Olympics, was last week planning a modest program in keeping with the ideals of international amity...
...record, set by Hannes Kolehmainen...
...strong. Up in the line somewhere strode their most-feared rivals, 60 hardy Finns, among whom the greatest names were Paavo Nurmi (distance runner entered in six races), Willie Ritola (present U. S. distance champion, bearing Finland's colors because of an Olympic ruling), Hannes Kolehmainen (long time a Marathon marvel), Porhola and Torpo (weights...
...Molla Mallory is a native of Norway and an American citizen by marriage. Both Norway and the U. S. claim her for their respective Olympic tennis teams. Precedent is cited: Hannes Kolehmainen, distance runner, American citizen, returned to his native Finland under whose colors he competed in the 1920 Olympics. Although Mrs. Mallory is said unofficially to have stated her preference for the red, the white and the blue, she refused to go on record. "I have nothing to say about it at all. I never give interviews...
...individual entries, the best-known stars include Joseph Ray, the A. A. U. mile champion; D. S. Caldwell, of the B. A. A., who will also run in the mile; Hannes Kolehmainen of the Irish-American A. C.; J. G. Loomis of the Chicago A. A., national champion in the sprints; Thomas Halpin, of the B. A. A.; and Alma Richards of Cornell, the Olympic champion high-jumper...