The Washington herald., 1914-07-12
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ENGLAND IS SLOW
TO AID OLYMPIAD
Promoters Have Hard Time
to Raise $500,000 Cam
paign Fund.
PROFESSIONALS In GAME
Shipping Companies Decide to Aban-
don Queenstown as a Port
of Call.
PROFESSIONALS In GAME

London July il.-Despite the luke
warm response to the Olympic Councils
appeal for a $4,000 campaign fund thu
search for talent goes on. Economic:
viii have to be practiced and the orig
inal scheme has been considerably cur.
tailed, but the members of the reor,
ganized council are all out to get tht
best athletic representation possible al
the Berlin games in 1916. The American
lesson has been taken TO heart and the
old order is changing. British amateur.
ism is taking a wider range. When
America cut such a figure in the 1916
Olympiad in London. you willNremember
the scream about the paid amateur rep
resentatives OF the Stars and Stripes
II seems to have dawned on this effete
old country that such squealing. while
all the plums Of the athletic wOrld-were
passing into foreign hands. was not OF
much use.
Great Britain will not even have the
consolation OF shouting about the purity
OF her amateuTism II she fails at Ber-
| lin, for We have trainers OF all sorts
here now. and we shal! have more when
the wheat is sifted from the chan. The
outdoor athletic meetings are just start
ing and at all the chief gatherings there
are special scratch olympic field events.
which are to be utilized as the media of
elimination.
Are sadly Wanting.
Special attention is being devoted to
the pole and high jumps and to the
throwing of the javelin, in each Of
which the Britishers have been sadly
wanting.
In view of the revision of the program
OF Olympic games. the Amateur Athletic
Association has decided to add TO their
list of championships the following
events: Throwing the jayelin. throwing
the discus: hop, step and jump, and 40
yard hurdle race
r. o. Kitchling. the champion tavelin
tkrower here, has several times ap
preached 80 feet. and his keenest rival,
Kenneth McLennan. is coming on so
fast that Kitchling's supremacy is
threatened.
The fans here set great store on A
E Flaxman. the old English hammer
throwing champion. who Is said to have
accomplished what the American ath-
letes have always held to be impossible,
by throwing the l5-pound hammer with
four turns from a seven-foOt circle,
thereby increasing his throw up TO nearly
$50 feet
Recent events in the sporting world
have acted as a powerful stimulus TO
athletic enthusiasm in this country. and
for Berlin will be even better equipped
than was the one which did duty at the
London celebration.
Recent marine disasters have served
to strengthen the conviction Of thu
big shipping companies that Queenstown
in ireland must he abandoned for all
time as a port OF call for the big liners
crossing the Atlantic. The harbor au-
thorities have not yet abandoned all hope
of securing a reconsideration Of this de-
'cision. They have made all sorts of
suggestions. even TO the extent OF spend
ing S.O00OO0 on the improvement Of the
harbor, but without success.
To auit Queenstown.
Thus il can be finally assumed that
so far as vessels like the AQuitania,
Olympic Britannia. Mauretania, and
Lusitania are concerned Queenstown is
a dead letter. II will mean heavy loss
TO ireland in many ways, for II will
undoubtedly reduce the American tourist
traffic enormously. but more serious still
is the fact that these huge fast vessels
will now take mails from the ports of
departure This means posting at least
nineteen hours earlier for each outgoing
mail One prominent shipping magnate
declared the other day that~nO govern
ment subsidy could induce the companies
to change their plans. Calling at QueenS>I
town involved great risk. and the only
solution of the mail difficulty would be
for the government to subsidize and use
smaller and slower ships. This is NOT
at all a Likely contingency.