Pershig Sends Colonel to Races

General Pershing has sent Colonel Joseph H. Thompson to attend the Intercollegiate track and field championships which will be held in the Stadium on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of selecting athletes to represent the United States in the Inter-Allied games. This event will be held in Paris from June 22 10 July 6, and will include championship entries for all the allied nations. It will be greatest track and field meet since the Olympic Games at Stockholm in 1912.

Almost every one of the 572 contestants in the Intercollegiate Championships has been in some branch of the service, and will consequently be eligible to represent this country in the army games. A large number of star athletes have already singed up for the allied meet, including several intercollegiate champions who are going out for records on Friday and Saturday.