Show UT UTAH H GOLF GOLF Asso ASSOCIATION SETS SETS DATE ATE FOR FOR A ANNUAL NUAL TOURNAMENT T 1 American Runner Os Is Star I IFor For Fr Finland's Great Team i Finnish Point Getter Point Learned All of His Run Running Running Running ning Stunts as Resident of America By Frank Getty United Press Staff Correspondent NEW NE YORK July 29 It It seems the height of ingratitude thing that Willie Villie Ritola did in the op opening ning event of the Olympic games of 1924 The Tho little Finn was trained in the United States and appeared in in marathon and anu aim uisu distance runs lOins throughout the ine In East CUSt appeared in in marathon and anu aim uisu for several years All h he Ito learned of the running game gam all the the best coaching could l lend nd to his lithe limbs Ritala received receive a here bere But under the rules of the plad Willie represented Finland at atI atI I Paris And when the starters starter's gun sent the men away on the first event of ot the tho track and field program I the Finn Inn romped around his field smashed a worlds world's record won therace therace the therace I race with yards ards to o 0 spare and so I full of running at the finish he ha set setout setout out on another lap of ot the huge Colombes Colombes Colombes Col- Col Vernon Booth first American home finished twelfth u. u s. s nUN FR WINS FOR OR l FINLAND Il iIA U UIt It was the flag of Finland that went up above the Scoreboard first to be honored because of an Olympic victory I Speaking seriously no po sportsman will begrudge Ritola his success Many acclaim his triumph in the meter run at Paris the greatest greatest great great- est Individual Olympic achievement of ot modern times I In the first place rain wan wal l fallIng fallIng fall- fall ling Ing continuously and the track wasI was I heavy This means a lot Jot to runners who must plu plug along for more than six miles miles' Their running shoes drag up the heavy cinders they are hampered ham ham- even pored even w with h due allowances for proportion proportion more more than short distance distance dis dis- tance men Ritola ran as though It were a aday aday aday day of spring sunshine His most dangerous competitor was a a. a big Swede named Wide The two set setout setout setout out at a pace tHat mat quickly left the entire field behind WIDE IDE ALSO STAll ST. Wide made the pace pac with the Finn at his elbow until the eleventh lap Jap Then Ritola lengthened his stride and gradually worked up to and past his rival Stride tride for stride he drew away from Wide VIde who could not maintain the terrific pace What had been a two-man two race became a one-man one affair but the Finn never l let up nor pampered himself On he ran as though the seven devils of ot the old Finnish le legion legion le- le gion were nipping at hi his heels He was In a tremendous sprint at t the finish with the tired Wide a couple hundred meters back Willie cut 1 12 1 6 seconds from his former world mark In tha that race but what he would have done had he been pushed or had he known the race was over no one knows hARD liARD TO STOP STOl Ritola thought he had another lap to go and he was tearing along at a great a pace running around the fg laggards d of ff the f field on l a another tte l lap when Olympic officials flagged him and finally dragged him from rom the track our Four years ago Ritola won the same at Antwerp on that occasion occasion occasion oc oc- oc- oc casion setting a new Olympic and anda a 8 new now world mark At the Ant- Ant we p games the Finns Finn's time was 2 At Paris It was 1 |