Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1912 — America’s Athletic Missionaries. [ARTICLE]

America’s Athletic Missionaries.

Writing under this title in Harper’s Weekly, Edward Bayard Moss describes our athletic triumph at Stockholm In the Olympic games. “Some idea of the caliber of the athletes and the competition can be gained from the fact that thirteen new Olympic and nine world’s records were established during’ the games. The victory of Arnold Jackson of Oxford in the 1,600-meter run was the only feature that redeemed England’s poor display.”