Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

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We wonder what it will cost
Sir Thomas Upton to line up
Shamrock "!
1t is rather coincidence that
exactly the same amount asked
Tor by the Duke of Westminster
and his Olympic team, namely,
100000, is what Mr.. D. C. Jack
ling, a Salt Lake City mining
engineer and one of the Rocky
Mountain Club of New York
members, is accredited with pay
ing for his new yacht Cyprus
the first of oil fuel consuming
yachts-which is on the way to
Panama now on its first cruise.
Reference was made in a recent
article to the increase in cost of
teaching in sports. Even the train
ers in preparatory schools now re-
ceive salaries that twenty years ago
yes, even ten years ago-would just
have seemed out of reason. Yet the
old law of supply and demand is just
as sure to be operative in these things
as in any other wage scale, and there
is no way of getting around it. AS
noted earlier in these columns, there
may come time when it will seem
wise by mutual consent to reduce the
cost of this kind of instruction, but
when it is an open market and when
universities colleges or schools wish
to secure expert instruction in GER
R1sw Il. 8 .
tor will naturally be governed by the
number of competent men there are
to be had and the desire of others
to secure them. The Reichstag turned
down the proposition for an appro-
priation for similar purposes as that
of the Duke of Westminster.
Socialists Votes the Cause.
Reports are, however, that this was
done through the Socialists vote and
was a matter of politics. At any
rate, Kraenzlein, the American train
er, who was taken back by the Ger
man Olympic Committee when they
visited the United States, states that
it will have no effect upon the de-
velopment of the German team, but
will rather aid, for it will stimulate
private subscription. Furthermore,
there is a possibility that the meas
ure may come up again for further
consideration.
In the first article of this series
there was a prediction relative to
this national rivalry, and as we pro-
coed further along the pathway to
the next Olympic games we shall see
more of this. The German commits
sioners who were over here and had
an excellent opportunity to observe
what was being done, and although
their stay was a short one, they must
have seen something of the develop
ment from the bottom up that has
taken place in athletics in the United
States.
If trainers in the preparatory
schools command salaries far better
than the one England is prepared to
put up for the head of his training
system, it is not difficult to follow
the probabilities that presage the re-
suit. If every preparatory school in
the country be provided with an
expert trainer and every university
with an expert trainer, who takes the
men after they come from the pre-
paratory schools, and If each athletic
club has an expert trainer the
chances are that the development of
the country in which this athletic or
gani2ation is operative will turn out
more and better men in the special
ties IOr which .IDtS Tram b1ldh any
country working under the old hit
or-miss" methods.
No Economy in Expenses Here.
..i all probability we are living, in
regard to the expenses of athletics,
Ipon very much the same plane that
we are living in other expenses, and
some day a halt must be called.
Meantime, however, that does not af-
feet our situation in the development
of athletes for the next Olympic
games. because an era of economy Is
not likely to burst upon us suddenly.
While as above stated, England ana
the English committees and the Ger
nan Parliament both failed in fnanc-
the increased development OF
athletics. our widespread system Will
go on working just the same.
Treasurer Julian w Curtiss has
started the ball rolling in the way OF
raising the funds to send our athletes
10 the games. and Secretary James y.
Sullivan. of the A, A. T. IS taxing a
mail vote on the question OF appro-
priating $4,000 toward TINS fund.
Probably many clubs also throughout
she country will be asked to JOIN IN
siding this n, AZ
THOMPSON. president of the Amerl-
con olympic Committee. is making
INST as thorough plans for the care
80 our athletes as for Their develop
,,,.n, The team WI taNe some
,-anerican cooks and II is S~ohaDle
that heir drinking water ~