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Show M'CARTY SAYS HE CAN LICK JOHNSON . Luther McCarty, who claims to b l the white heavyweight champion, will jlj fight Jack Johnson at the Circle Da Paree, In Paris if the club will guar- antee McCarty $30,000, or give him ll the privilege of 30 per cnt of the K gate 5 The statement was made by Billy J McCarney, the Philadelphia boy who 4 Is managing McCarty, when the en- a tire training camp arrived In the city J the other dav McCarney says he be- j lleves that McCarty can lick Johnson without half trying and he has given up the Idea of drawing the color line 1 for two years. . , (Continued on Page Seven 1 (Cont'nued From Page Two.) NEW RECORD FOR INDOORS Olympic Champion Sets New World's Five-Mile Five-Mile Mark in New York Xew York. Feb 12. A remarkable performance lv Hannes Kolehmal-nen. Kolehmal-nen. the Olympic distance champion. In which he set up a new world record rec-ord for fle miles indoors, was the feature of the Xew York Athletic club's iudoor games In Madison Square garden tonight. The speedy Finn made thedistance from scrairb in 24 29 1-5. clipping 18 -4-5 seconds from his own record of 24:48, made in the garden last Thursday night Incidentally he set up new American Amer-ican records for 3 1-2 miles aud 4 1-2 miles indoors, his time for the former for-mer distance being 1711 3-6 against 17:16 In his run Inst week, while he I was timed for the 4 1-2 miles at 22 07 4-5 compared with his last week's mark of 22 17 All three of his marks last Thursday Thurs-day were now records The record lor five miles outdoors is 24 33 2-5, held by Alfred Shrubb of England. Kolehmalnen's performance was all the more noticeable because this afternoon aft-ernoon running in Brooklyn he had set up a new record for three miles Indoors of 14 18 1-5. He had on attack of nausea after this perform ance and before he started tonlgh complained of feeling 111. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing he set out at a smart pace in the five mile run and soon had the j records toppling and pulled up fresh after a magnificent sprint just betorc the finish. Harry Smith, unattached, of New York City, the ten mile national champion, finished second, one-flttli of a mile behind the winner. |