Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-18
To SEND BIG
OLYMPIC TEAM
TO TAKE PART

There Is now not the least doubt
that the United States will send a big
team to the Olympic games at Stock
holm, and from now on the American
Olympic committee will have its hands
full arranging the details of the trip.
To judge from what has already been
said on the subject, the biggest team
that ever left America will be muster
ed, and enough men will be taken TO
cover every event on the program with
first and second strings. In all about
sixty picked cracks will represent the
stars and stripes. 30 that If two events
Of a kind should clash or come the
same day there win be separate men
for each.
At the Olympic games in England
there was some trouble about the n
tries and the tryouts, and In 1906 the
team had to be taken on chance with
out any tryouts on account of the ear
" date of the Athens festival. 1t
promises TO be the same case with
Sweden, for It Is understood now that
the games wifi 90 the Aeseasvaek in.
June or the end or May. Az the IN
tries will have to be In at least a
month ahead, this would mean that
the tryouts would have to take place
about the end Of April, something
which would not be the best for the
boys here. Around that time each
year the crack performers are In their
very worst condition after being fag-
ged out from the indoor work and are
usually about beginning to sneak out
II the open to get { sntH Of the ozo1s.
Tracks Against Early Work.
Another thing which would be
against the early trial Is the state of
the ground at that season OF the year.
Tracks In the east are generally wet
and soggy. but this could be overcome
by going south for the tryouts. A
member of the Olympic committee re-
marked casually the other day that
the tryout meet could be held at
jamestown, Va. The question of the
tryouts and their location Is not half
SO important as the fact that the team
could not have the services of the col
lege men II the games are held in
either the latter part of May or the
first week In June. Just then every
quarter of the United States is pre-
pairing for the college meets and ev-
cry institution will need its best men,
and they would not consent to let them
go abroad on a team.
When the team went to Athens e.
B. Parsons Of Yale was the only no.
table c%ollegfan, and he had a hard time
to get away from his studies. and he
had a still harder time getting home
In time for the Yale-Harvard dual
meet. which came a week or so before
the intercollegiate championship. He
took q hurried departure from Athens
Immediately after the 800 meters. Two
years ago the American olympic team
had plenty of college material to draw
from, as the intercollegiate meet was
owe In the east and the conference
championships In the west, and out as
far as the Pacific coast the college
men were just fresh from their spell
of spring work and thoroughly keyed
mp. Perhaps the Swedish games may
not ba SO early and may go until July,
and the later the date the better for
the American team and those interest
ed on this side of the water.
Cleveland TO Have Fcstivai.
Cleveland has abandoned the idea OF
fhe Olympic games for 1915, but win
inaugurste an American Olympic fes-
tiyal for 1914. two years earlier. Ger
many was supposed to have a promise
for the games OF 1916, bat 1t appears
italy has doomed up as a candidate,
and al ths Italians passed up the meet
of 1903 they are OF the opinion that
their turn should come after Sweden.
The Italians have selected Rome as
the venue, and next to Athens 1t would
be the most historically appropriate To-
eation for an athletic festival.
AS rar as the Cleveland meet of 1919
is concerned. there Is no reason why
II should not take place. Such a fix
sure has caught the favor Of the Cleve
land residents. and plans for the fix-
ture have reached an advanced stage.
IT would not be in the power of the
international Olympic committee to
have q word to say against the CIeve-
land festival. The Cleveland people
want tie exact program OF the 0lyul
pic games. and It ~ said saaf there will
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