Valdez daily prospector., 1914-04-16
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 NEW YORK. April 16.-With plans for the collection by subscription of $IOO,0O0 to send an American ath- letic team to the 1915 Olympics at Berlin we'll under way. old Uncle Sam bids fair to walk of with an other international field and track victory, despite frantic efforts of En- gland, France, Germany and Sweden to head us of.
 It will be remembered that imme- diately after the last Olympics at Stockholm, England, with great hue and cry, set about to raise 'steen thousand dollars to spend on man ufacturing team that would give the British lion a chance to roar. Those bally Britishers were going to start whang off the bat and develop 8 bunch of athletes who were to gar- ner all the 1915 Olympic medals, honors, records and ribbons in sight. But already. according to reports from the land that has just been startled from tea-drinking habits by an exhibition of Yankee baseball which also shook the crown from and derby hat onto King Georges royal pate, the Englanders have begun to stall.
 The wild enthusiasm which amate field and track lovers of England and the colonies stirred up for the first few months following the Stockholm games has since simmered down un- til it's as lukewarm as a pot of tea would get by the time the sev- en hundredth innings of cricket game rolled by. When it came time to collect passable coin of the realm and actually spend it on hiring ath- letic trainers who had the ability to develop the athletes. there was lit tie doing And it was likewise when the suggestion, was made that England go out into her byways to get ma terial. Never would it do, they ar gued, to have member of the. com- mon classes members of an athiet- ic team that represented England. In England, you nkow, Old Top DO, # an man isn't a gentleman he can hardly be chased as an anna teur~~a, least it's nearly that bad. And so England appears to be back in the same old rut.
 In France it has been slightly diff ferent. Those tempermental French men started right off the bat 10 do the same real work, and if France doesn't show up a whole lot better in 1915 it will be strange. The re ports of Americas Stockholm vic tory wasn't cold on the wires until the Frenchmen, backed by the gov, ernment. had gathered in great bunch of shekels--or francs--and they started in to spend the money i'll the right way. They established a government College of Athletes" at Rheims, and they hired some real athletic trainers---from America. The French government appropriated about $50.00O to the College Ath- letes." They went even further. Any man. officer or enlisted man, in the army, who shows promise of devel- oping into an athlete is ordered" to take up his studies at Rheims. The work is going on there now in stern earnestness, and if not in 1915, then at the next Olympics. France is bound to be heard. from. s
 Work very much, similar to that be- ing done in France, is today going on in Germany and Sweden. The Ger man government is showing every encouragement, both financial and moral, to those who are developing athletes for the Berlin games, and in Swedeni they are using that stadium they built for the last Olympics as a practice ground for developins the Swedish teams ...s--.t.
 But they have started too late for the 1915 games. The United States has too much of a lead. Wit ness the recent amateur indoor cham 8pionShins held at Madison Square Garden, where three records were snasheds and several more were equalled.. And he it remembered that some dozen or more record" men whoge homes are in the West and Middle West. were not among those present. and who can be counted on for points in 1S15. ...a #s \, < Even st thSt, 'however,it Eill nev-- CT do 10 sit back and count the chicks just yet. That $100,o00 isn't