Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-01
To SYSTEhAnlE
OLYMPIC GAMES
COMMITTED IL
TO MEET ~ BERLIN
IN AUGUST.
Dispute Claim OF Yale
Canadians Will Compete This Year
for the International Challenge
Canoe Cup Race,

NEW YORK, June 30.-The initial
steps toward sytsematizing and stan
dardlzing the Olympic games Of the
future will be taken within month
at Berlin on August 20-24, there
will be held the first conference #
the Professionally formed lnternatlun-
al Amateur Athletic Federation, -
which time world wide track aud
field governing body viii be estah-
lished Representatives from the ma
tional amateur sport controlling body
of every civilized country have been
invited TO attend, and real Working
agreement and basis for future inter-
national meets viii be established,
At the present time the committee
in charge OF the Federation affairs
consists of l.. l.. Fisher, Great Hri-
tain; Pierre Roy, France; Carl Dleu
Germany; II. StankoNits, Hung 'ry,
and James f.. Sullivan, United 81 ties.
These committees In addition to
number Of other delegates, Will as
semble In Berlin several days before
the opening of the conference "a or
der to discuss in an informal NaN
the plans and scope of the new or
ganizatiou To the athletes of the
world the recommendation of the
A. A. l. to the International OYm-
pic committee, will be of great .ntcr-
est. While the new body has nGt the
slightest authority In matters pertnin-
ing to tho Olympic games IFS rec )ln-
mendations will undoubtedly carry
much weight with the Olympic Games
committee when that body meets
year later at Berlin to plan for the
Olympic meet of 1916
This is particularly tue hce,iu'e
| K is known that the |. \. \. i. Nlil
| suggest u number of radical reforms
which. backed by the athletic gov
| erning bodies of such n ttionS ms the
| United States. Great Britl,a, HWeG' n
| Germany, France, Finland AMI the
| British colonies, are likely to he m
corporated into the permanent olym-
| pic games code to be rcpircd At tNe
| conference of 1914.
1t will be strongly urged that The
Olympic committee adopt = standard
set Of track and field events at ltC-
ogn!zed distances and weights to
hold for all time and th1- tnis p:I-
gram be separate and d,stin ior
such usual Olympic side tights as
skating, yachting. polo, team 0ld
other modern features II sporting
competition. No objection u lhcs,
sports will be interposed bV the !.
\. A. f.. but II will be suggested that
they be held as distinct and apart
from the standard Olympic pro
| gram.
The American delegates, consisting
Of Gustavus kerby, Col, Robert M
Thompson. James f. Sullivan, Bar
ton S. Weeks and Joseph Is. Mac
cabe. will ask the new association to
suggest that a number of perpetual
trophies be secured and awarded dur
ing the games at Berlin In 1915.
These will include a great interna-
tional trophy for the winner of the
greatest number of points in all the
recognized Olympic sports of the
meet, together with a number Of mi
nor trophies for the winning matte Ns
| in track competition, swimming
wrestling. cycling ard simiiat cen
tests These trophieg to be held for
three yeaIs and then returned to I'll"
country holding the succeeding meet.
The question OF the measurement
methods of fufuIS games WI a's,
he discussed. A. present the olym-
pic meets are based upon the ~ atric
system. wherea5 the leading athlcti"
nations of the "orlt Use yards I'D
feet I'm measur,ry u,ok AM iitld
sports It appe'rs III ely that This
proposed reform will fail. hown;rr
owing to the fact thii the metric VS.
| TEN has been uJ"' I Olympic games
| since the anciart meets in An" is
and IL really a better understood sys-
tenn, from an International .ttrui-
point. than that afforded ~ III.
| English measuring methods.
At present there is no way Of cont
pairing the best efforts OF the vcr'1 y
leading athleteic performers under the
two systems. For example. the 100
wards, a standard sprint in Am 49, a.
England Australasia. Canada ana
South Africa. is nine yeards, one foot
and one inch short Of the l00-m'trr