Arizona republican., 1913-07-01
INTERNATIONAL
 FEDERATION IF
 ATHLETES MEET
To Systematize the Olympic Games-Progress Toward Worldwide Amateur. Ath- letic Union is Highly Encouraging
TAssocTATED PRESS DIsPATcHI

steps toward sNstematizing and stand
 ardIzing the Olympic games of the fu : ture will be taken within . month at | Berlin on August 20-24 there will be
 held the first conference of the prOVis- | iOnally formed international amateur athletic fed1ration, at which tine q world wide track and field governing body will be established Representa- | tives from the national amateur ST 1rt 1 controlling body of every civilized
 country have been invited to attend, and a real working agreement and | basis for future international meets l will be established.
 | At the present time the committee in | charge of the federation affairs con
 sists of P. L. Fisher, Great Britain: | Pierre Roy, France: Carl Diem. Ger
 many; H. Stankovits, Hungary, and
 James F. Sullivan. United States. These l committeeman. in addition to a num- 1 Der of other delegates, will assemble
 in Berlin several days before the open l ing of the conference in order to dis cuss in an informal way the plans and scope Of the new organization of the
 I. A. A F. to the international Olympic
 committee, will be of great interest. | While the new body has not the slight l l the Olympic games, it's recommends tions will undoubtedly carry much weight with the Olympic games com l mittee when that body meets year 1 later at Berlin to plan for the Olympic meet of 1916.
 This is particularly true because it is known that the I. A. A. F. will sug- gest q number of radical reforms which | backed by the athletic governing bodies of such nations as the United States, Great Britain, Sweden, Germany, France Finland and the British colo nies, are likely to be incorporated into the permanent Olympic games code to be prepared at the conference of 1914. It will be strongly urged that the Olympic committee adopt standard set of track and field events at recog- nized distances and weights to hold for all time and that this program be sep arate and distinct from such usual Olympic side lights as skating. yacht ing, polo. tennis and other modern feat ures of sporting competition. No ob jection to these sports will be inter posed by the I. A. A. F.. but it will be suggested that they he held as distinct and apart from the standard Olympic program.
 The American delegates consisting of Gustavus Kerby, Col Robert M. Thompson. James F. Sullivan. Barton S Weeks and Joseph B. Maccabe. will ask the new association to suggest that number of perpetual trophies be se- cured and awarded during the games at Berlin in 1916 These will include grand international trophy for the winner of the greatest number of points in all the recognized Olympic sports of the meet. together with number of minor trophies for the win ming nations in track competition, swimming. wrestling, cycling and simi- lar contests. These trophies to be held for three years and then returned to the country holding the succeeding meet.
 The question of the measurement methods of future games also will be discussed. At present the Olympic meets are based upon the metric sys- tenn, whereas the leading athletic na- tiOns of the world use yards and feet in measuring track and field sports. It appears likely that this proposed re- form will fail. however. owing to the fact that the metric system has been used in Olympic games since the an cient meets in Athens and is really better understood system, from an in ternational standpoint. than that af- forded by the English measuring meth odS
 At present there is no way of com pairing the best efforts of the worlds leading athletic performers under the two systems For example, the 100 yards. standard sprint in America, England, Australia, Canada and South Africa. is nine wards one foot and one inch short of the 100 metre sprint. Des- bite this clash in the two measuring systems. it is probable that the point of substituting the English for the metric system will be passed if the countries most interested can secure a standardized set of Olympic events. This in itself would be a great ad- vantage and assistance to countries preparing to enter teams since it would permit the program to be known sever al years in advance. In addition it will bar the local Olympic committees from inserting in the schedules number of events or contests which are intended purely for home athletic talent and which continue for a period of time which absolutely bars foreign entrants from continuing in the competition.
 That Baseball Record.
 The statement that the seventeen consecutive victories of the Yale base ball team during the recent college baseball season is an intercollegiate record is disputed in several quarters. With the exception of Par1e Davis. the Princeton University athletic sta tistician. however, the disputants fail to produce proofs. Davis shows that Yale at best simply tied a record made by the Princeton nine of 1897. when the Tigers reeled off seventeen straight victories beginning on April r and finishing on May 2S of the year 1897 During the run of wins the Tigers de- feated Cornell twice, Georgetown three times Virginia twice, and Harvard