Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1919 — OVERSEAS ARMY ATHLETES WILL ENGAGE IN GREAT INTER-ALLIED OLYMPIC MEET [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OVERSEAS ARMY ATHLETES WILL ENGAGE IN GREAT INTER-ALLIED OLYMPIC MEET

Plans are under way in the army for the most extensive series of- athletic contests ever held. The series is to terminate in a great interallied military Olympic meet. While yet tentative, the plans have been approved by General Pershing, American * com* mander in chief, and the finals of the contests will be held in Paris if possible. Plan Competitive Games. The plans provide for competitive games, sueh as track and field sports, shooting matches and.'the like. The competition will begin by platoons and progress through companies to regiments, brigades, —divisions and- army corps and to the allied armies.

When completed the program will embrace events for every branch of the service, such as competition between machine gun organizations, the artillery, trench mortar and other branches and between platoons and companies of infantry. The army will be assisted by the athletic trainers of the Young Men’s Christian association, the Knights of Columbus and other organizations in* rounding out the men for the track and field events. .Purely American events will be confined to the American soldiers, but British, French, Belgian and Italian soldiers will be asked to meet tho A morinaflnulH of OthfiF /IIU vll vCHJB XULUU xxilCttCT vr wmv* events.

American Soldiers Engage in Hurdle Race in France.