The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-21
EPARING FOR
OLYMPIC GAMES
MEET OF ALL NATIONS WILL BE
HELD AT ANTWERP IN AUGUST,
1920.

New York, Dec. 2o.-Adopting the
same systematic methods which Amer
iran athletic authorities proved sue
caesful in the past European nations
are preparing for the Olympic games
~ 1920 in a thorough manner which
hodes no easy victory for the United
gates athletes in the International
track meet at Antwerp, Belgium next
August Campaigns for the develop
mont Of teams, collection of funds
md other important details, essential
to success in such an elaborate UNI
aertaking, are already under way,
aided in several cases by government
supervision and subsidies.
No better example may be cited
dian the plans and arrangements Of
ebe French which involve a generous
use Of the army methods and system.
Three classes remain mobilized of the
Great army of France at the present
inc. They are the class of 1917;
bozs aged %; that of 1918; aged 81;
and the class of 1919. youths of 90.
7,aus the flower of the French race,
r.,7vsicaIly and from an athletic point
nj view remains under arms. They are
distributed in various garrison towns
rad departments of France. It is
rom among those three classes that
athletic France expects to recruit thir-
f. or forty first-class athletes to add
IN the already fair quota of men who
are slated to represent France at Anti
werp.
The following program has been de-
rs5nd upon by the athletic directors of
the French army at the head of whom
Il Colonel See, chief of the Joinville
school of athletics for the French
ergav. Elimination trials will be con-
aacted in every regiment of the above
snrae classes. each soldier making a
soociaIty of the sport for which ne has
shown the greatest inclination and to
which he has been pronounced fittest
ay The doctor of the regiment These
rails will occur after three, four and
perhaps six months of preparatory
raining under the eye of an athletic
director. Soldiers who have shown
class warranting their undergoing
further training will be picked out and
directed to one of the large centers
nearest their billet: Strasburg, Lyons.
Narsailles, Bordeaux and Paris.
According to the schedule adopted,
the men chosen as being worthy of
further trial will reach their various
hcadquarters sometime in the spring.
Then semi-finals viii be held in
,stgasburg. Lyons, Marseilles and Bor-
dcau1 and it will be a. case of the sur
v.vll OF the fittest. These will be sent
20 JonvilIe, near Paris, where the
final touch will-b be put to their prep
aratton
Fifty chiefs OF battalions are just
now finishing a special course of
training at the Joinville school and in
q few weeks will be disseminated
among the garrison towns of France to
commerce the training of the men and
osfcers.
Two hundred officer and $50 men
ara already hard at work al the school,
some of them training in their own
behalf, other getting ready to take in
hand the men who win be sent to
them from the provinces. Joinville is
close to the Pershing stadium and the
final work of the Olympic candidates
will be done at the former American
Stadium.
One million francs of the 100000
voled by the chamber of deputies for