$50,000 Prizes For Skating

1920

NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 1. — According to his manager, D. R. Scanlon, Boddy McLean, the American ice skating champion, will receive $50,000 for competing in live races against Oscar Mathieson, the Norwegian title holder, at Christiania, Norway, on Feb. 8 and 9.

The races will be held on a quarter mile track and the victor will be declared the world's champion. The distance will be 500 metres, 1,000 metres, 1,500 metres, 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres. McLean met Mathieson in this country a few years ago and beat him eleven out of twelve races. The races, however, were held on a small track.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 10.