New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-28
GERMANY SETS DATES
FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
July | to 10 Assigned for the
Track and Field Events
at Berlin in 1916.
jim SULLIVAN PROTESTS
Will Request an Advance of at
Least One Week on Be
half of Athletes in
This Country.

InlS country.
Berlin, oct q. - The track and field
events of the Olympic games to be held
here in 1916 are to be decided between
July / and 10, according to an announce
ment made to-day by the German
Olympic committee.
The June dates contemplated earlier
were abandoned by the committee at the
instance of the United States, which OBJ
jectcd because the college athletes from
that country would be unable TO attend
at that time of year.
The football and hockey championships
are to be fought out on May % and June
5 respectively. and the rowing on August
70 The dates for yachting. golf shooting
and other fixtures have not yet been set.
The committee has not decided to what
extent supplementary sports are to count
in the programme of the Olympic games
lanes l. sullivan, American Olympic
commissioner. announced last night that
he would request the German olympic
committee. on behalf of the United States
team TO postpone the opening of the
Olympic games al Berlin in 1916 at least
one week.
According TO the cable message received
from Berlin yesterday the opening events
in the track and field programme are set
for July /. This date would prove
handicap to the American team according
-f,, {
United States representatives to sail be-
fore the closing OF the American colleges
and universities, from which many mem
bers Of the 1916 team are expected TO be
recruited In discussing the conditions
Mr. sullivan said:
1T was the original intention of the
German Olympic committee TO open the
track meet about the middle OF June
When l was abroad last summer l eX-
planned the situation from an American
standpoint and requested a later date
The German committee evidently made
concession 10 US, but even to open the
games on July ! will work a hardship on
our team in 1915
The Stockholm games began on July
and a similar date at Berlin would be
far more acceptible. Close to 30 per cent
of the team will be college students, some
of whom will be graduated in the sprinS
of that year In many cases it would be
impossible for them to leave college be-
fore June Is or later To sail on that or
a later date would put the team in Berlin
with little or no time for final training.
II sincerely hope that we can secure
postponement of the opening for a week
at least. for it will mean big difference
in the chances of the American team WIN
ming The games Of 1916 will be closer
and harder 10 win than ever before and
no team Of the size Of the American az
gregation will have TO travel the distance
that ours will be obliged to undertake.
That extra work means more 10 the
American competitors than to any other
country interested in the olympic games,
and I feel sure that when the conditions
are understood fully by the German COM
rnittee the concession will be granted.
owing TO the early and thorough man
ner in which the Germans are preparing
for the next Olympic meet, all these de-
tails will be arranged in advance ana we
are already planning for our part in what
will be without doubt the greatest attn
etic games ever held.
From present indications the United
States team will consist Of about 80 atm
letes. drawn from the colleges and anna
teur athletic clubs as the result Of series
OF trial games keld in various parts OF the
country. as in 1912 In view of the new
rule adopted at the recent meeting OF the
international Federation Of Athletic Asso-
Citations, which permits only SIX starters
in an OLYMPIC event, i'm place OF twelve as
formerly. IL will be necessary 10 use
greater discretion in selecting the team
81 an, in favor of a final try-out AFTER
tba sectional meets in which every WIN
rer second and third man shall compete
Those final tests should >be held at cen
ira, point. such as Chicago, Pittsburgh
Cleveland orpBunalo, and the first SIX IN
each track and field event chosen to form
the United states team. Under these coh-
ditions il would be fair field and no
favor for all. and those VINO ultimately
maize the team would be without question
the best in their events
According to the present plans oil the
American Olympic committee. the teaIi'
which will consist of about $50 atnletes'
Will be euartered in some suburban holei
near Berlin during the games ana the
American Consul at Berlin has ALREADY
been requested 10 secure list OF sultaDie
quarters in order that they may DE III
spected and a selection made during the
summer of 1914, when members Oh inc
American committee will be in Berlin at
tending the Olympic conference ior inc
final arrangements for the games.
incidentally, it can be stated that the
team will not be taken to Europe IN
specially chartered steamer. as was the
case in 1912"