The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-17
To ADMIT WOMEN
TO OLYMPIC MEET
international Committee Has
Given Consent to Open Two
More Divisions.
BY RICHARD DAHLGREN.
ecial Cable to The Tribune.

SpeClai CaDlc TO The Tribune.
LONDON, July I6.-The time is ap
preaching when women will be admitted
In all the sports of the international
Olympic meetings. When tho games
were first established il was generally
agreed that women were not sufficiently
interested In athletics to go through the
long periods of training necessary for
the games and to make the long trips to
the scenes of the tournaments. In the
last Olymplad In London women were
admitted to lawn tennis, skating and
archery. The international committee.
which IS preparing for the 1912 games
IN stockholm has consented to open up
Two more divisions, swimming and
gymnastics, for women, making five in
all. Those who follow such subjects are
freely predicting that, within four of
SIX years women will be taking part in
every branch of sport at the interna-
tional games, from tennis to discus
throwing and racing. The committee
Will hold its next important meeting at
Budapest on May 20, 1911
Women in Swimming Contests.
Women will play prominent part in
the long-distance swimming contest on
August goth known as "the swim
through London. - In many sections of
Great Britain organizations. which will
have delegates in this contest are at
work preparing for it. Henry Taylor
the long distance amateur champion,
who won the gold cup last year, is in
practice getting into his old time form
At Plymouth F. j. Southern and Miss
G. Williams are taking long swims In
the sea as they have been selected to
represent the swimming club at that
place. Liverpool will be entirely rep
resented by women, FIVE of them being
chosen by the Liverpool swimming club
All are taking long swims now for prac-
tice work. The Misses Shipley, o. Car
son and B. Slaves will represent Leceis-
ter. Miss Lilly Smith, the famous woman
swimmer Of Kingston. will also take
part, Heretofore men have predomi
mated in the entries.
Jimmy Britt Is Rolled.
Jimmy Britt has been rolled at re-
ports circulated in America that he has
eypatriated himself. Said he: 81 like
England, but / like America, too Pa
pers at home have linked my name with
Waldorf Astor in saying that / have
become voluntary exile. | bet Wal
dorf Astor feels proud of the f,ct that
his name has been used with mine. ' IN
SOiHp huNh W LuS 'otdbS5. L III nOl an
Anglomauiac.
Who Will Go to Stockholm.
There is much speculation as to
the American athletes who viii rep.
resent this country in the 1912 Olvm.
piad in Stockholm. The West has shown
SO we'll in athletics recently that il is
believed that tho American team will
be composed half Of Westcrners and
half of Fasteners. All Sweden is en-
thrsiastic over the prospects Of this
great international event being car
ried out in Scandinavia, They aim Mt
surprising the gathering at Athens, 81
Louis, Paris and London, not merel, j.
by the entries and quality Of the com.
pctitors. but by the precision Of the or
ganization. The Crown Prince, as pres,
ident of the Swedish Olympic commit
tee, is ralsing the keenest interest in
tho arrangements, while the chairman,
Colonel Balck, and Secretary Kristan
Hellstrom are working to mako tho
occasion a credit 10 the nation. From
the efforts beirg displayed by the Swcl.
ism authorities. the games in 1912 will
constitute model programme. ard
there will be none Of the chickering's
which caused so much controversy mt
London two years ago