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olympic committee adopt a standard
set of track n field events at recog-
nized distances and weights to hold
for all time and that this program
be separate and distinct from such
usual Olympic side lights as skating.
ern features of sporting competition.
No objection to these sports will be
interposed by the I. A.. A. F., but It
will be held as distinct and apart from
the standard Olympic program.
The American delegates consisting
Thompson. James e. sullivan, Barton
S. Weeks and Joseph B. Maccabe, will
ask the new association to suggest
that a number of perpetual trophies
be secured and awarded during the
games at Berlin in 1916. These will
include a grand international trophy
for h winner Of the greatest num-
Der of points in all the recognized
Olympic sports Of the meet, together
with a number Of minor trophies for
the winning nations in track competi.
ton. swimming. wrestling, cycling ana
similar contests. These trophies to
be held for three years and then re-
urn 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 ma
tons Of the world s yards and feet
! n measuring track and field sports.
reform will fail, however, owing to
the fact that the metric system has
been used in Olympic games since
the ancient meets in Athens and il
really a better understood system,
from an international standpoint, than
that afforded by the English measure
ing methods.
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, a standard sprint in America,
England. Australasia, Canada and
South Africa, is nine yards one foot
and one inch short Of the 100 metre
sprint. Despite this clash in the two
measuring systems, it is probable that
the point Of substituting the English
for the metric system will be passed
II the countries most interested can
secure a standardized set of Olympic
events. This in itself would be a great
advantage and assistance to countries
preparing to enter teams. since it
would permit the program to be
known several years in advance. In
addition it will bar the local Olympic
committees from inserting in the
schedules a number of events or con-
tests which are intended purely for
home athletic talent and which con.
tinue for a period of time which alb.
solutely. bars foreign entrants from
continuing in the competition.
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 quar-
tiers. With the exception of Parke
Davis, the Princeton university ath-
letic statistician, however. the dis
putants 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 IL and finishing on May 2s
of the year 1897. During the run
OF wins the Tigers defeated Cornell
twice Georgetown three times, Vir-
gina twice, and Harvard. Brown.
Lafayette. Lehigh, Pennsylvania state
and other college mines at least once.