New Britain herald., 1920-02-19
OLYMPIC PROGRAM
 IS RECEIVED IN N. '.
Games Committee Will Proceed
 With PlanS-Will Meet Soon

NeH York, Feb. 19.-~-The first Of .iciAi program of the Olympic games , :,& Antwerp. BelSiun1. next summer reached the American Olympic com miltec yesterday. The data included the special booklets on swiming and other sports. as well SIS q lengthy an sNer to d uucstionnaire forwarded to tho Belcium committee some weeks ago.
 With this information ill hand the American committed expects to be ;Ihle to complete it's plans for the formation, entry and transportation Of the United States team, which will be the largest that ever sailed front these shores for foreign competition.
 The program was immediately pla ced in the hands of transiators, and President Gustavus T. Kirby will call a meeting of the committee to hear reading of the complete dates and conditions governing the interna- tional sport competition as soon as the translation is completed.
 The program contains more than 100 papers of descriptive matter, giv- ing in detail every event and the con- oiitions governing the same in more than twenty different branches of amateur sport. Illustrations of the stadium at Antwerp, plans of the running track, football field, prizes and the principal patrons and royal officers are included.
 The answer to the questionnaire discloses much information which the Am erican committee has been await ing.
 The track will be approximately 40 yards in circumference and will not be equipped with the usual 22O- yard straightaway. In several events. such as the rowing races, which will be over 1-4-miIe course. only one entry nation will be accepted. In q majority of the individual con- tests the limit of entries will be six men or women, with only four al- lowed to start.
 The American com mittee was in formed that the efforts of that body to secure the Catholic preparatory school at Nellie, near Ghent, as the residence and training quarters of the United States team had proved unavailing. and so far no quarters have been selected for the 200 or 300 athletes and officials who will make up the party which will sail from this city about the middle of July.
 The Belgian committee is endeavor-
  ever, and special American represen- tatives have been despatched from Paris to assist in the work of finding |; camp within a radius of thirty miles or Antwerp.
 Descriptions of the Marathon race course from Brussels to Antwerp and the course of the crosS-country run and the long distance bicycle road race are not yet available.
 It is explained, however, that the hockey games will be played under English rules and the boxing conduct ed under the regulations of the Inter national Boxing Federation.
 The lawn tennis matches will be played on composition courts, the foundation being composed of brick dust and clay.
 The hand grenade throw has been eliminated and there is doubt whether there will be golf fixture included in the games. This question cannot be answered until some idea Of the mum Der of entries is obtained.
 Dates for the more important fix lures with the time for closing Of en- tries follow:
 April 20 to 3o-1ce hockey and sll ating Entries close on March 19.
 July to 10-Yachting. Entries close on June 6.
 July 2: to 31--Shooting. Entries close o:1 June 21.
 Aug. 15 to 23-Track and field sports, fencing. Graeco-Roman wrest- ling. Penta thlon tclassic) Decatha- lon and lawn tennis. Entries to close on July II.
 Aug. l. to 26-Boxing. Entries to close on July c6.
 Aug. - to 31-Catch- as ca tch-can wrestling. Entries to close on July 26.
 Aug. - to 29-Swim ming, men and women. Entries to close on July @1..
 Aug. 4 to 3I-Pentathlon (mod- elr) Entries to close on July 2%-
 Aug. to 12--Cyclng. Entries close on July &.
 Aug. 23 to 2s-Gymnastics. Entries close on July 21.
 Aug. - 10 29-Rowing. Entries close on July 5.
 Aug. 2s to Sept. 5-Soccer and Rugby football. Entries to close on July 2S.