Meeting, for which the Shanghai athletes have been training for lenths, will be held to-day and tomorrow on the Pioneer Field, Rue YObservatoire. One hundred and sixty-eight entries have been filed with the secretary, Mr. H. A. Atkinson, representing eight national teams—Britain, America, France, Holland, Japan, Portugual, China and Russia and'x single entrant, G.
Johannson. China leads with 46 contestants, Japan second with 38, Great Britain third with 26, Ameri ca, Holland and France trail with, and five respectively.
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Mr. Edwin S. Cunningham, U. S. Consul-General, is honorary president, while the vice-presidents include representatives of many nations. Volunteer officials for judging, scoring and timing, will run half a hundred. "The meeting is purely amateur, rules of the Far Eastern Olympic Games Committee being adopted officially, The events follow:—
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