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...Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock on "Athletics." Mr. Clark is especially well qualified to speak on this subject from his won personal experience. He was a member of the University track team during his four years in College; and at the Olympian games held in the summer of 1896, won first place in two of the events, the high and broad jumps. This year for the second time he is the holder of the Amateur Athletic Union all-round track championship...
...Clark was a member of the University track team during his four years in College; and at the Olympian games held in the summer of 1896, won first place in two of the events, the high and broad jumps. This year, for the second time, he is the holder of the Amateur Athletic Union all-round track championship...
...international committee on the Olympian games has decided to hold the next quadrennial meeting in 1904 in the United States. The games will be held either in New York or Chicago. The committee is now waiting to see which city offers the greater inducements before deciding definitely. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, one of those most interested in international athletics and the reviver of the Olympian games, is said to favor the selection of Chicago...
...officials of the Paris Exposition have just sent a message to the American universities which intend to send teams to compete in the Paris Olympian games this summer, that the programme of events has been altered so that no final heats will be held on Sunday. As this objection of the Americans to competing on Sunday has been the only obstacle in the way of their entering, seven American universities have now decided definitely to compete, and are now preparing teams. The Princeton team, consisting of Captain Cregan, Jarvis, Perry, Coleman, Horton, Serviss, Carroll, and possibly Hutchinson, will sail...
...University of Pennsylvania will give at Philadelphia on June 12 an invitation intercollegiate track meet of Olympian events for the American teams which will compete in Paris, for a number of members of the Harvard and Yale teams and for several college graduates. The Paris teams which will be invited are those of Princeton, Columbia, Chicago, Georgetown, Syracuse, and Williams. The following men from Harvard will be asked to compete: Hallowell, Boal, Brown, Rice, Rotch, Ristine and Grant...