Show America Needs Middle Distance Runners for Olympiad I II T 4 7 b y Americans Will Face I Great Runners at Amsterdam By Henry L. L Farrell CLEVELAND 0 O. Jan 10 Feel FeelIng Feel Feel- Ing fairly well vell set for th the sprint races with such stars as Paddock Borah Dorah Locke Bowman Husse Hussey and McAllister the American Olympic committee Is setting its glasses on the indoor tracks scouting for good middle distance talent Since time too humiliating to re recall recall re- re recall call the United States has failed tailed to win a race of more than meters meters me me- ten in the Olympic games sames and in 1924 the sacred ground wax waa trespassed trespassed trespassed tres tres- passed when hen Harold Abrahams of ot J England won tho the meter race ace from a IL flock of tho best sprinters that ever eer represented America For or years Lawson Robertson head coach of or the American team has been praying for fot youngsters to goin goIn go goin in for the quarter mile the half and the tile mile but only a IL few have had the tenacity to stick to it and the field from which to pick the 1923 1925 runners necessarily will be bo smaller Three of 0 tim the best of ot the American Amer Amer- lean ican flock Lloyd flock Lloyd Hahn Bill Dill Cox and Blondy are Romig-are are now in training for the Indoor season leMOn and will continue through for tor the outdoor outdoor outdoor out out- door trials Hahn recently resumed training after a IL long rest and Romig a n. few days das ago put on his togs and won across a IL across cross country race near Philadel Philadel- phia Cox a student at nt Penn State college has been in almost continuous continuous contin contin- training Hahn because of or the many races he won last year indoors and the records he set la Is considered to be bethe bethe bethe the best beet chance chanco for American points In Amsterdam His Ills victory over Edvin Wide the Swedish star ew I should be discounted however be because because because be- be cause none nono of oC the foreign runners know much about tho the wooden track Bill BUI Cox however may mol be tho the leader of oC tho the American squad lieis lie He HeIn In is one ono of It th the greatest cross CrollA country countr w. w 4 C I I l PAAVO NURMI RUNNING PUNNING HIS FIRST RACE CE IN THE TIlE 1920 ANTWERP OLYMPIC GAMES THAT STARTED HIM Wv TO TO FAME FAM FAME athletes developed in years having won the national intercollegiate in succession succession championship two ye jears e rs sion slon and he is now training strictly for the flat races Romig also a IL Penn State product was an nn ace nce runner and a veteran of or orthe the 1924 team and if he ho goes to Amsterdam it can be taken to mean that he lie will train in Holland and will bo be out there trying There of or course courle will be more runners appointed to the team and andone andone andone one of them may be Johnny Zola captain of oC Wisconsin's cross country countr country coun coun- tr try team and the winner of 0 the last Western conference race Zola at nt least is serious In his lila ambition to make the team as ns ho he left tho the classroom after acter the midwinter midwinter midwinter mid mid- winter examinations and went to work eo so that he lie would have enough money to finance himself In the event ent that he made the squad The Tho American middle distance runners will have some of ot the best I runners runner In the world to beat blOat at nt Amsterdam Including Germany great star etar Dr Otto OUo Pauo and Nurmi Finland's champion EdvIn Wide the great Swede Hahn has beaten Wide Nurmi has beaten Hahn and Wide Vide an and ha have hae e beaten Nurmi and also wiped off oft tho books the great eat records records records rec rec- of Ted Meredith But these performances will sill not count so 80 much when nhen they line Une up in n Amsterdam Hahn Wide Ide and Nurmi always will be good runners They may be better than they ever have o been been thIs been this summer so past form cannot be taken too much a at as evidence Germany tears fears that DC Dt DI Peltier who Is now in tho United States State and Is contemplating a IL trip around the world orld will travel himself out of form That remains to be seen Ono One thing can be taken for granted Nurmi did not relish th the defeat derent he ho suffered Buffered by bl the German and he will not do anything to throw himself off ort |