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Show HE CHALLENGES ANY AMERICAN New York, Jan. 16. A novel challenge chal-lenge has reached America from Charles Wilson, all-round champion of Manchester, Eng., bidding for a match with any all-round athlete in tho Unlt-xed Unlt-xed States for the champion of the world The contest which ho pio-poses pio-poses includes almost everything In track athletics, and also takes in swimming, cycling, rowing and tumbling. tumb-ling. The suggestions for the various events to be contested nre as follows: fol-lows: Swimming, half-mile; rowing, on,c-fourth on,c-fourth mile; plunging of one minute's duration; running 100 yards and one mile; walking mile, 120 yards hurdlo; shot-put; hammer throw, running high jump; running broad jump; po'.e vault, one forward spring jump and ten forward spring jumps, with weights, three forward spring jumps, without weights; the backward spring jumps, with weights and cycling cycl-ing from vq to ten miles. |