Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-29
ONLY THE CREAM
Of OUR ATHLETES
HORNEHT GAMES
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Another United States delegate to
the international athletic federation
and international Olympic games con-
gress sailed for France May % in the
person of James E. Sullivan, secre-
tary of the Amateur Athletic Union.
According TO Mr.. Sullivan the A n.
%. viii be represented at Lyons,
France. by five delegates to the in.
ternationaI athletic federation meet
ing June 4. and following days, and
the American Olympic committee by
twice that number OF delegates at the
Olympic games congress at Paris.
June 13. These conferences, which
are those of separate and distinct or
CARNATIONS, have direct bearing.
however, on the future OF all Olympic
and international track and field
sports One OF the principal features
of the /. A. F. schedule is the com
pletion of an Olympic games program
which the federation hopes the 0lym-
PIC congress will adopt or at least in
corporate in its program for the 1916
games at Berlin.
Commenting on this feature OF the
work, Secretary Sullivan said:
81 expect these two meetings to
have most important bearing on the
future of international athletic compe
tition. know that the general plan
for the Berlin games will be adopted
at the Paris meeting and hope that
1t will in a part at least agree with
the program drawn up by the /. A. f..
delegates. One thing is certain, how
ever. and that is that future Olympic
teams will be smaller in number than
in the past
Under the proposed plans II viii
not be possible to enter more than
so per cent Of the athletes who COM
peted in Olympic games Of the past
for this country This means that we
will have to hold more elimination
meets than in other years and reduce
the American team of 1916 to the very
cream of our track and field talent.
Athletes like Howard Drew, the sprin-
ter, and Fred Kelly, the lurdler. will
have to forego competing In the broad
jump and other events Of a like type
and stick to their regular events Il
they expect to make the team. Under
the old conditions there was room for
men good in several events IN 1911
it will be the best men, In each egent
that Wills make the team and am
sure that even such remarkable per-
formers as Kelly and Drew cannot con.
tinue to compete in several events In
an afternoon as Drew did ait the Penn.
syIvania relay carnival and retain
their form for 1916. 1lsy5
The reduction in the sire of the
team will also require change In the
methods of conducting the elimina.
tions. In place OF the meets held In
various parts of the country. followed
by the selection Of the team by COM
mittee it will be necessary to hold
preliminary tryouts in various sec
tions of the states to be followed by
a final meet, at say the Harvard sta
dunn, in which the winners and sec.
ond men at each preliminary shall
compete in the finals. In the final
tryout the first few men in each 0lym.
pic event would make the team and
sail from New York or Boston within
two or three days after the games at
Cambridge. This method will give
us the very best performers In the
states and will be fair to all. for since
we cannot enter but fraction of the
number who competed in former Olynl-
pic meets it necessarily follows that
we must select those who prove be-
yond doubt their right to be on the
team" ~sss-ps