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Show YALE UNIVERSITY IN OLYMPIC GAMES Yale will pend some of her giants and some of her fleetest sprinters to the St. Louis exposition for the Olympic games. Some of the athletes who plan to compete com-pete from Yale are Edgar Glass, shot putter and hammer thrower; Thomas Lee Shevlln of St. Paul, Minn., hammer thrower; Ralph P. Kinney, shot putter; Charles B. Long, middle-distance runner; run-ner; Ward McLanahan, pole vaulter and high Jumper. The entry of any Yale athletes Is conditioned con-ditioned on the proposed trip which Yale and Harvard' will take abroad1 during dur-ing the summer If present plans arc carried out. If they cross tho ocean to meet the English universities, Oxford and Cambridge, in London during July they cannot, of course, take the St. Louir trip. Long, the Yale middle-distance runner, run-ner, has an Invitation to go to St Louis as the guest of Capt. Adult of the Princeton Prince-ton team, which will go to the exposition. exposi-tion. Capt. Adslt and Long were closo friends at the Hill school during tho preparatory school days. The Yale team will not be entered as a team, but the athletes will go as individuals. There has been talk that Capt. Edwin Clapp, who is a Minneapolis boy, would take tho trip, but ho says he does not expect to go, even if the Yale team does not go to England. |