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...metre distance, Ritola of Finland appears as a likely champion, the veteran coach stated. With his compatriot, Nurmi, and Eklof of Sweden, Ritola should finish at the head of the field. Pederson of Norway, Kohn of Germany, and Norland of France also have good racing records...
...three Harvard, runners, although they will be unable to give Wide as good race as stars of the calibre of Ritola or Goodwin would, are expected to offer the invader from Sweden satisfactory opposition. Haggerty, probably the best miler in college ranks, has raced four times to intercollegiate titles in his specialty, while Reid and Flaksman are highly rated as two-milers, both having placed in the indoor intercollegiate two-mile run in New York last winter...
Most of the country's first class distance men have been approached in the search for runners to race the Swedish school teacher. Ritola and Theobald were among the first invited...
...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...
...Piper Heidsick; 27, 28, 31 to 34, The Ups and Downers; 29, Great Scot; 35, 37, M. T. Hope; 36; Betty Bronson; 38, G. Silver; 39, The Would-Be-Goods; 40, Joseph Ward; 41 Hal Winston; 42, Centaur; 43, O. Henry (group of two); 44, Paavo Ritola; 45, John Doe; 46, Joe Dokes; 47, Deus faxit; 48, Oliver Joannin; 49, William Peaiso Lowell; 51, Montgomery Ward; 52, Red Mange; 55, Andy and Min 3rd; 56, She and I; 57, Stoughton Hall; 58, Jesse James and Co.; 59, Monsieur Paraclete; 60, Nestor; 61, Goldy and Dusty; 62, Castor and Polux...