The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-26
TEAMS FROM UNITED STATES .TOHAVE STRONG OPPOSITION
Tryouts For Team To Repre- sent America In Track And Field Events To Be Held On
 June 13

NEW YORK, oct. 25.-(By Asso- ciated Press. )-Faced with the pros poet of the greatest challenge to its athletic process in it's history of in ternational competition, the executive committee of American Olympic com mittee today formulated detailed plans for the marshalling of the eountrys most potent forces for the 1924 Olympics at Paris.
 Tho United States, it was developed at the committees meeting, will be more completely represented in the various fields of competition than ever before, notably tennis and polo, while in such brances as track and field, where American supremacy has been pretty well established in the past, every effort will be made to send the best material available in the lists.
 Outstanding among the concrete steps taken by the committee were the selection of Harvard stadium at Boston, as the scene for the final Olympic track and field try-outs on June 13 and 14, 1924 and the defeat of a proposal to change the functions of the Olympic committee by clothing it with complete and final Jurisdic- ton over all matters pertaining to thfS pdIIlClpdllOu, ldrAluS away such powers as now are vested in the various athletics governing bodies.
 Under the proposed change, advo- cated by Brig. Gen. Palmer E. Pierce, and also by Elwood s. Brown, execu- tive officer of the N. A. A. F., the Olympic committee alone would pass upon the eligibility of American com petitorS and take away authority now held by such bodies as the A. A. U. in track and field and other sports the United States Lawn Tennis as- sociation, the National Rifle associa tion and similar sport controlling or ganizations. Selection of the Olym- pic team members, for all practical purposes, will be vested in the hands of the various sport t-controlling bodies. Such authority was delegated by the committee to the various or ganizations, Col. Robert M. Thompson, chairman of the committee pointing out that the function of the Olympic body was primarily one of rejection rather than selection.
 These efforts will result in Ameri- can representation in practically all features of the Olympic program, starting with the initial events, the winter sports to be held at Cham January 25 to February ,. These will include speed and figure skat-
 
 will draw American competitors in cIude rugby. soccer football, polo, target shooting, shotgun matches, fencing boxing and wrestling, swim ming, rowing, lawn tennis, gymna- sites, weightlifting, equestrian sports, cycling and yachting.
 Selection or candidates by the sport go verning bodies will be sub ject to the final approval of the Olympic committee, while for track and field ' sports, the outstanding feature of the championship program, the official tryouts at Boston will be the medium of selection.
 Annual college and club track and field meets in various parts of the tests, the best performers qualifying for the final tryouts. These meets, such as the I. c. A. A. A. A. in the east, and the western conference and N c. A. A. in the west, will furnish most of the material, although other organizations, such as the army, also plan to have trials. The army will have tryouts in each of the nine areas into which the country is di- vided.
 The Olympic committee proposes to raise s350,000 to finance it's project, a sum which will provide for send ing team of approximately 800 athletes, with tralnerS, asslStants ana others. The money, according to the plan outlined by Col. Robert M. Thompson, chairman of the com mittee, and approved today, will be obtained from the sale of tickets on the steamship, America, chartered to take the team to France; from the receipts at try-out games; and from pubic subscriptions. Plans already are afoot for an intensive nation wide campaign to raise funds by popular appeal.
 The budget will be administered by a finance committee to be appointed by Colonel Thompson, which, among other things, will pass upon any ex- pense to the Olympic organization involved in sending athletes to sec tional or final tryouts.