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Show AMATEURS WANT MEN REINSTATED New York, N. Y., Jan. 28. Efforts to have the registration committee of the Metropolitan association of the Amateur Athletic union, which suspended sus-pended Hannes Kohlemalnen and Abel Kiviat, pending an investigation of what the committee termed a suspicious sus-picious race last Saturday night rescind re-scind their action, If only temporarily, In order that the men might compete tonight In the games of the Mlllrose A. C, in Madison Square Garden, have failed. Kiviat put in- a personal application and coupled his statement with a certificate cer-tificate from his physician, the gist of which was that he had not been physically qualified to do anything like his best at the time of the race and that necessity warranted his miserable showing. Kiviat said he had been badly treated by the committee com-mittee because he had not been given an opportunity to clear himself from any charges which might have been brought against him. John MacGowan, manager of the games, last -night was Informed that' no further action would be taken by the registration committee until their regular session, which could take on the nature of -a trial, February 4. All that Kohlemalnen had to say was that he had done his best. |