Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — AMERICAN ATHLETES WIN HONORS ABROAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMERICAN ATHLETES WIN HONORS ABROAD

American athletes have again shown that they retain their place at the head of track and field sports by the brillianUperformances of the chosen few who crossed td the Scandinavian countries at the invitation of Sweden. With only five men on the team, four of them selected officially and the other, Ward of Chicago, going because his fellow citizens thought he deserved the trip, the representatives of the United States have won nearly every event in which they have competed. In the two days at Christiania the Americans were victorious in -every event but one, and in that Ted Meredith was beaten only by a_.yard by J. Bolin, the Swedish champion, at 800 meters. The performances of the men at Stockholm were remarkable when it is taken into consideration that they had disembarked from the steamship only a day or two before their first meeting with the Scandinavian champions. In the stay of a week beforerthe Stockholm and Christiania meetings the Americans had a chance to train, and the result was apparent, particularly irrThe cases of Meredith, Loomis and' Ward. Loomis recovered his spring in the high jump and de-

seated Kullerstrand, the Swede, who had beaten him in the first meeting. Ward scored his first victory of the tour when he won the 200 meters on the opening day at Christiania and Meredith got close enough to Bolin at 800 meters to make matters uncomfortable for the man who had easily conquered him a week previous. Bob Simpson, the University of Missouri hurdler, has been invincible, in all the competitions over hurdles, and already has placed on the books a new world’s mark for 110 meters. Besides showing his superiority in hurdling, Simpson has acquitted himself well on the flat, and the same may be said of-Murray, who has beaten the Scandinavians with great regularity in both hurdle races and at sprinting distances. Loomis has been victorious in all the short-distance races, and, now that he has evened up with Kullerstrand in the high jump, has established his supremacy in that department of sport. The Scandinavians were delightedwith the work and sportsmanship of the Americans and promise to send a representative lot of athletes to the United States next year to compete in various tournaments.

BRILLIANT PERFORMERS IN SWEDEN.