Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

OF their team mates VI iesS SApSii
ence, yet reserving the privilege OF
rushing TO the fore when the possibill-
ties appear TO favor a score by con-
centrated attack. All the players are
experienced poloists even though not
the best four that might be selected
from the birmingham list. Every
one has an excellent record as army
team players. although Captain
Cheape is the only member of the
combination who has figured in inter
national cup play. He was mem
Der of the 1911 and 1918 English
teams. Major Barrett was sub
stitute on the 1911 four but did not
secure an opportunity to play in the
matches of that year.
Another United States delegate to
the International Athletic Federation
and International Olympic Games
Congress sails for France today in
the person of James E. Sullivan, sec
rotary of the Amateur Athletic I'm
ion. According to Mr.. Sullivan the
A. A. L. will be represented at Lyons,
France, by five delegates to the In
ternational 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 IS. These conferences, which
are those of separate and distinct or
CARNATIONS, have a direct bearing,
however, on the future of all Olym-
| pic and international track and field
sports. One of the principal features
of the l. A. F. schedule is the COM
pletion of an Olympic Games program
which the Federation hopes the Olym-
pic Congress will adopt or at least
| incorporate in its program for the
| 1915 games at Berlin.
Commenting on this feature of the
work, Secretary Sullivan said;
I expect these two meetings TO
have most important bearing on the
| future of International athletic COM
petition. | know that the general
plan for the Berlin games will be
adopted at the Paris meeting and
hope that ii will in a part at least
4 agree with the program drawn up by
the l. A. F. delegates. One thing is
certain, however, and that is that fu
ture Olympic teams will be smaller
in number than in the past.
Under the proposed plans it will
not be possible to enter more than 80
! 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
sprinter, and Fred Kelly, the hurdler
will have to forego competing in the
| broad jump and other events of a like
| type and stick to their regular events
If they expect to make the team. I'm
| der the old conditions there was room
! for men good in several events. In
| 1916 it will be the best men in each
event that will make the team and
am sure that even such remarkable
performers as Kelly and Drew cannot
continue to compete in several events
| in an afternoon as Drew did at the
| PENNSYLVANIA relay carnival and re-
| tain their form for 1916.
The reduction in the size of the
! team will also require a change in
the methods of conducting the elimin-
atoms In place of the meets held
! in various parts of the country, fol-
! lowed by the selection of the team by
a committee it will be necessary to
! hold preliminary tryouts in various
sections of the states to be followed
! by a final meet. at say the Harvard
/ stadium, in which the winners and
second men at each preliminary shall
compete in the finals. In the final
| tryout the first few men in each
! Olympic 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 a frac-
| ton of the number who competed in
! former Olympic meets Ii necessarily
| follows that we must select those who
prove beyond doubt their right to be
on the team"
Ability to break records in stadium
building appears to be one of the nee
essary requisites on the part of sue
cessful construction concerns these
days. Federal League baseball clubs
and college athletic associations all