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Show PHILLIPS' TRAINER DECLINES NEW OFFER Exeter, N. Y., April 10. George S. Connor, trainer of the Phillips academy acad-emy track team for the past thirteen years, has declined an offer of a similar sim-ilar position at the University of Pennsylvania to succeed the late Mike Murphy. The announcement that he had signed a ten-year contract con-tract at the local academy was made today. Connor, who is an Englishman, came to this country in 1888 to participate par-ticipate in a six-day go-as-you-please race In New York and afterward held positions as trainer with the Chicago Athletic association and at Cornell and Carlisle, coming to Exeter In 1901. |