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Show : r-- Left to right: Abel Klriat, Ted Meredith Mere-dith and liana Kolehmaiuen. New York, March 8. Three cinder path stare who are practically unbeatable un-beatable at their respective distances are Ted Meredith, the University of Pennsylvania flier; Hans Kolehmain-en. Kolehmain-en. the wonderful long distance runner from Finland, and Abel Klviat. who has the backing of every member of the Irhsh -American A. C. every time he starts In the 1000 meter events and the 1500 meter contests. The regularity with which these three athletes win races Is becoming monotonous to the athletic world and tho fact that stimulates interest In events in which any one of the trio is entered is the ever present probability prob-ability of a world's record being shattered. shat-tered. When the Americans were in Stock-' rN . . holm making their final preparations I for the Olympic games. Mike Murphy, that greatest of all athletic trainers and coaches, sent a cable to a New York newspaper in which he told of having seen Hannes Kolehmainen, the ; Finnish entrant in the five mile event, w orking out. America was figured to I have a pretty good chance of capturing cap-turing this event, but Murphy'B announcement an-nouncement that after seeing Kolehmainen Koleh-mainen perform In training he believed believ-ed the Finn would win the race, and predicted that he would develop Into the world's greatest distance runner. Murphy's prophecy has been fulfilled fulfill-ed to the letter. Kolehmainen won the tlvo mile event in. a walk, and since he has been in this country ho has smashed record after record and is being hailed on all sides as the fastest man in the world at distances ranging from two to fifteen miles. . i , The wily University of Pennsylva-i nla athletic trainer has also set himself him-self on record with a line of opinion regarding the ability of Ted Meredith, I the youngster who Is at present king! of the Quarter milers. MereMlth's past; performances are firm enough foun-da foun-da tion tor the boast of Murphy that his pet will be known as one of the j greatest runners in the history of I athletics. i Meredith has been attracting the attention of athletic bugs since he was a mere stripling. In fact he was only out of high school last summer when , he caused the whole world to gasp by his performances in the Olympic ! games. Meredith gladdened every American heart when the news was j flashed across the broad Atlantic that he had not only won the 800 meters .event for the U. E. A., but had smashed smash-ed the world's record for that distance -7B5 and continued on to the half mi mark to establish another world's re j Meredith's most notable perforn ance since the Olympic games was hi f recent, victory in the great Suburbak ji ( lii.r, winiiinu troni the classiest field that ever contested in that raceX H in America HiB time was 50 4-f sec- on ds. t I i The boy who is daddy of them all VI & at the mile. 1000 meters and like dis- V H tances la Abel Klviat, the plucky lit- Vj r tie Irish-American runner, who at H present wears the one mile cham- pionshlp crown and holds the world jfl record for the 1500 meter event. "3 H-- Law son Robertson, the formor Olyrr- B pic champion, who is now trainer of EH the I A. A. C. squad, declares that MM Kiviat is getting faster with each ra:e .end has not yet exerted himself to H tho fullest. I |