Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN PARIS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN PARIS

Platt Adams to Compete in French Metropolis in Military Title Runs, Says Robertson. “Sparrow” Robertson, the noted’ New York track coach and starter, now in France with the Y. M. C. A., writes as follows: “Platt Adams, Olympic champion, blew into Paris as a Y. M. C. A. instructor recently. Platt looked jpretty

good and no one would ever think that such a handsome fellow could ever be brought up on professional charges such as he was a couple of Syg.'rjXy quarter mile record holder of the raSe e XnJ. Dter - C 1 egbl ■ tßm ’ “We had quite a confab on American sports. I expect to have the two compete In the military track and field cnampiouanip?! «»• v/v * vm uvo, u«u Parisu

"Sparrow" Robertson.