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Show B McLean May Again I) Meet Norway Champ Promoters Endeavoring to Get Norwegian to Come Here and Skate Chicagoan for World Title; Looks Like Big Year for Skating (BY rCTliK P CARNETl Indications point to this helne a - IQI most successful Bk.-etins season. Sna Tn? Itfrf issn Itfnthltsirn world'! i hamplonshlp skntlnj; match in Nor- -'"'vBR way last February did much to revive fxlSfc! Interest In the sport and thlnKa are ?$T5 Picking up now Just where they left OBS off last winter. There Is a possibility j .y-jlifaj tnnt MiLean and Ifathlssoh win racei V j .icrilri. Promoters iryluk' lo S't the pair together In this country. It ' 'mS may be possible to pet these skaters ( ",v sftSr together, and McLean Is more than! 'J?n willing to skate the Norwegian. Getting Mathleson to skate however, ML" Is something: else When Mathleson 1 -yBW defeated McLean last February the; ral frst ln,nff hc dl' when the got off the; tS ice was to take off his skates and Hi null them to the wall In the dr-HslnR xS'ti room of the Christiana club, with the l4Sl3 remark that he had skated his Inst lSflBH We have known athletes who could ( SjtWjbB be Induced to make their return to dBnH the track for u consideration and '5fftwJ -Mathleson, loo, may be niscoptable f iK when the golden lucre is spread ln tLIB front of them, The Norwegian got; ' ?1$lW about 140,000 out of the McLean races. jjrVHB which Is about J3S.000 more than he: IsmRwI Pot out of all Ills other races, and why t he should retire is something we cannot can-not understand. I McLean may have some skating tc I do at home. Norval Baptfe has thal-I thal-I longed the Chicago filer to a s;'rleM ol 'races for the Amerieun chanilonship land McLean " 'H skate Baptls or any ione else Just as soon as some one Of" fen something for them toskatafor. 1 So niurh for speed skating. There will b big doings In hockey. . new arena has ben opened in Boston Bos-ton and there Is talk of one in New York, and talk also of amateur and professional hockey leagues. There will be .1 professional hockey league in the western p.trt of Canada and the usual number of stars will bo there. D R. Scanlon has-visions of a pro' hockey league with Philadelphia Bba ton, New Yrl Pittsburgh and Uuffa-lo Uuffa-lo as the rival cities Scanlon Is In the east trying to put the Idea over. Last winter there was talk of a international in-ternational hockey league ntnong the amateurs but this has gone by the boards with the formation of the Ca-nadlan Ca-nadlan Hbckej league. An effort is being made to form u I'niled States league with Boston, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh. St Paul and Cleveland In it. N The European and International hockey matches win be played at Stockholm in February. |