Frost Our Own Counesronnenr, Tientsin, May 6.
Providing a date to' suit alt principal contestants can be decided upon sometime during the latter y, Tientsin will shortly Intantey" whose athletic ounding various ora view to fixing All the big Chinese Universities Tientsin as well as the Y.M.CA. and mission schools will be asked to enter. Invitations will also be jextencted to the Loyal North Lan-|* Jeashire Regiment, the French Colonial Infantry, Japanese and Ttalian troops, in fact to every national group in Tientsin, It is possible that a preliminary meeting of representatives from body will be held in The matter of date, place and programme will in all probability be settled then. The recreation ground if carefully prepared and properly laid out into 1 }440 yards track, would be an ideal spot, but if this ground cannot be obtained the vacant plot at the south end of Woodrow Wilson Street will be a second choice.
This athletic meeting will give many civilian athletes a chance to Jcompete against military champions. The civilians can put into the con. tests a number of good men who should be a match for the best Jarmy athletes. In Ray Foley, the ins have a runner who has already covered 100 yards in 10.2, and the 220 in 24.3, while Hans Park has just accomplished some Jgood performances over the 100. metres and in the jumps. Authur ewart is a fine quarter miler and th a little instruction and train ing should be able to go the quarter in well under 60. Park could Ido much better with a few weeks systematic diet and training. His recent leap of 21 feet in practice Jcompares favourably with the 19 ft.
in. jump by Hunter og the recen! 15th Infantry meeting. "Park could only cover 19 ft. 2 in. in the actual Jcompetition last Saturday, but the Jconditions were not conducive to jzood jumping. His high jump of 5 ft. 63 in. will also take a lot of The bar was actually at 5 ft. 8 in, but allowance was fully made for the sag.
In weight events the civilians should be able to produce some one lo of hurling a 16 pound shot nearly 40 feet. Thirty-five feet seven inches was chalked up in the recent 15th Infantry meeting by JJagiolka, while Park had not long jaga a 35 foot toss to his credit.
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