Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-20
UNCLE SAM BACK Of
OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS
American Athletes to Have
Government Support in
Next Foreign Meet.
(By Edward R. Bushnell.)

(By Edward R, Bushnell.)
Americas college and amateur ath-
letes are taking deep interest In the news
from Australia which seems to indicate
that the Greek government intends to
promote set of Olympic games this
spring in spite of her political disturb
ances at home and abroad Apparently
the Australians either have more definite
information than Americans regarding
these games or they are laboring under
mistaken notion about them. At any rate
the Australians have named a nucleus for
a team which they have decided to send
to Athens for the sports which were or
iginally scheduled for April and May.
In spite of what the Australians have
done there is little likelihood that the
games Will be held. The English A. A.
A. or the British Olympic Association,
which was organized for the promotion OF
the 1905 meet in London, has announced
that it will not be represented by an Of
fetal English team. and that il any Eng
ish athletes do go they will go indie
pendently and not as representatives of
Great Britain. AS for the United States,
this country never did have very serious
Intentions of getting up team.
AT the same time pans are being iaio
here for future Olympic games. but the
will be the olympic games to be held al
Stockholm, Sweden, In 1912. Americans
lee that since the coming Athenian
games do not belong to thu quadrehnlai
Olympic cycle there is no reason why
| they shou send a team to them. To do
so would entail considerable expense.
which could be better saved for the
Swedish meet. Furthermore. since the
games are scheduled for April and May
the team would be without the services OF
the college athletes, who comprise the
cream of our athletic talent. It is true
that with only club athletes the United
States won the 1908 games at Athens,
but the outside competition at that meet
was not so keen as at London In 1908.
Before the next Olympic meet In 1912
the A. A. L. hopes to have secured the
financial assistance Of this COVE nment.
That was not done'in 1908 and the Amer
count of lack of funds. Canada con-
/! trbuted' to the expense of the Canadian
| team to the London Olympiad. and sew
| eral other countries did likewise with
| their teams. There is consequently some
reason to believe that the United States
| will make some sort of an appropriation
to enable this country to retain its pres
ent title as Olympic champions.
The I. C. A. A. A. A. Championship.
! At the annual meeting of the l. C. A.
a. A A. in New York this coming week
| the association will definitely fix the
| place for holding the thirty-fifth cham
| pionship track and field meet. This body
has not committed itself to any one track
because this IS something that can be
| done only In the annual convention not
yet held. The executive committee has
| already recommended that the games be
held at Franklin Field OF the University
of Pennsylvania. 1t was not thought
| that there would be any opposition to this
plan until the publication OF remarks by
| Capt Little and Manager Little mot
| brothers. to the effect that Harvard
would take the games II she could get get
| them. It should not be judged from this
| that Harvard intends to make an enort
to get the games from Pennsylvania,
| though the Crimson did succeed In doing
| this on a former occasion. while Penn
| Sylvania once worked somewhat similar
coup on Harvard.
| On this occasion, however, there seems
| little likelihood that there will be any
serious opposition to Pennsylvania for the
meet. At the annual convention or the
association a year ago a resolution was
! passed giving Harvard the 1900 me and
| recommending that under the circum-
| stances the 1910 meet should be held by
PENNSYLVANIA and after that the games
given to New York in case a suitable field
| could be found there. Columbia is now
| endeavoring to provide such field, but
| there is no certainty that 1t will be ready
/ in time.
| II is stated on very good authority that
| Syracuse intends to make a serious, BID
| for the games in 1911. Syracuse has
| lately completed a splendid STADIUM ana
can furnish facilities for. such meet:
| The only drawback is that the city or
| Syracuse cannot be expected to give the
| games the patronage they would receive
| in Philadelphia Boston or New York
| The association has no need for the gate
0Q And
dollars every year, but the gate receipts
| have become more important since the
association has been paying DIVIDENDS 10
| the colleges which are members. syria
| cuse is likely to encounter some OPPOSE
ton by reason of her inaccessible loca-
ton When the games were last held in
| New York, in 1903, 1t was the general
impression that the association would let
| them rotate from college to college. That
probably would have been done but for
| the fact that Harvard and Pennsylvania
were the only universities which sup
| piled the proper faculties
Date of Cross-Country Run.
At this same meeting the association
will consider a resolution to hold the an
nual cross country run the Saturday fol-
lowing Thanksgiving instead of preced-
| ing it, 1t lis not likely that this resolu-
| ton will muster much support, for the
reason that il is designed principally to
benefit those Harvard and Yale men VINO
wish to see the Harvard-Yale foot ball
game. The changing of the date would
probably inconvenience more men than
| it would benefit, for the new date would
| be the same as the Arlny-Navy foot ball
| game, which appeals more TO college men
| than does the Yale Harvard struggle
| Considerable opposition has already de-
| veioped to the Army-Navy date for the
cross-country run. and the present ar
| rangement Is likely TO stand
Rewarding Tiger Hockey Team.
| The Princeton athletic authorities have
shown a disposition to be more liberal
| in rewarding athletes with the coveted
varsity "P.' This they have shown by
awarding the university letter to the
members of the hockey team which re-
Gently won the intercollegiate champion
ship in this sport. AS rule, varsity let
tiers are not given except for the
| major sports, some other combina-
| ton being considered sufficient for
| the minor teams Other institutions
| frequently grant limited num-
| Der of rewards of the varsity letter for
minor athletic championships but it Is
/ seldom done in the wholesale way cele-
| brated by Princeton.
| On the subject of hockey, il is interest
| ing to note that 1t is now being pilloried
as rougher game than foot ball Howe.
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