The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-27
COLUMBIA PROFESSOR WOULD
HAVE UNITED STATES COOP
ERATE WITH GERMANY.
TO HELP GERMAN TEAM
American Athletes Helped 5wedes Be-
fore Stockholm Olympiad and Are
Now Anxious to See Germany Do
Well in 1916.

Berlin. March 26.-Initial steps have
been taken for close cooperation, be-
tween the German n American ath-
letic worlds at the neXt Olympic games
at Berlin in 1916.
The prime mover in the project is
Professor William Milligan Sloane. of
Columbia university, New York, who
has spent the winter here as "Roose-
Welt Exchange Professor" at Berlin
university and who is one of the three
American representatives on the Inter-
national Olympic committee. His
plans for a German-American athletic
alliance" were unfolded at a luncheon
he gave in honor of Count Sierstorpff.
a German representative on the COM
mittee, Herr Carl Diem, president of
the German Amateur Athletic union,
and Lieutenant Won Reichenau, who
represents the army on the German
National Olympic committee
DR.. Sloane told his guests that
American athletes would like to see
the Germans win in 1916 and would do
all in their power to help them or
ganize. victory" America would ex-
tend a cordial welcome to Herr Diem
and Lieutenant Won Reichenau, who
are going to The United States next
August to make an exhaustive study of
training methods and engage a num-
Der of expert trainers. The Ameri-
cans had rendered yeoman service. to
the Swedes between the London and
Stockholm ~Olympiads, and We're dis
posed to support the Germans in the
same manner.
1.-THE Pyramid Idea"
The men who won for America at
the Olympic games We're merely the
apex Of a pyramid whose BASE was
made up of tens of thousands of po-
tential champions. 1t vas the "pyra-
mid" idea that Germans must cult
vate, n America was ready to show
them how to do it. He did not mean
that America was not coming to Ber-
lin to win herself if she could. She
had sent $50 men to Stockholm. She
would sem more and still better men
to Berlin.
The Germans assured DR.. Sloane
that American advice. would be in
voked to the fullest possible extent.
manages IN 1dmeS.
Two changes have already been
made by the German committee of the
Olympic games in Berlin in 1916. The
~left-handed shot-putting and discus
and javelin-throwing are to be aban-
doned, if the international committee
confirms the decision. and it probably
will. 1t is stated that the German
authorities do NOT haliaVa thaf thn
principle. of symmetrical physical de-
velopment is physiologically correct,
and that one-arm development is more
natural, and their position would seem
to be justified. Standing jumps have
also been eliminated, but that may not
be approved by the international COM
mittee. At every recurrence of the
Olympic games the nation in charge.
a change in the program, and
generally it is made to include some
sport peculiar to the nation holding
the sports, and comment is not always
favorable. It is high time that some
standard program was arranged by
the International committee, to be
used in all games, no matter what
country holds them. There is no rea-
son why the committee should not do
this, and thus avoid trouble in future
games. Every nation has some sport
in which it excels, or which no other
country practices, and to put it into
an international program will simply
add to the points scored by that ma
ton. Complaints will continue until
q standard set Of games is arranged
for all time.