The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-11
GREAT OUTFIT
FAV0RITES TO
WIN 0LYMPICS
S. S. Roosevelt Will Have
Training Quarters and Home
Built on Board
ROBERTSON IS COACH
Biggest Opposition Expected
from Finland ard German
Athletic Stars

New York. July 9t-An
other athletic argosy sets forth 10
day with flags waving and spirit!
high aboard the S. S. Presiden
Roosevelt; in many respects tn.
most formidable hoatload Of talent
America has ever sent ont in ques'
of Olympic honors
Track and field stars. fencers
swimmers. cyclists. oarsmen. gym
nasts, and entrants in other branches
of Olympic sport. 26s strong. will
have a ten-dav voyage aboard the
President Roosevelt.
Recruited from every section Of
the country. this argosy should re-
turn to the United States in Sep
TENDER bearing more than its share
of athletic honors.
Should Win Five
Comparative performances indi-
cate that the United States should
win championships in at least five
Of the eleven branches of Olympic
competition-track and field. SWIM
ming. rowing. boxing. and wrestling.
In all of these the Red. White and
Blue will be defending team cham
pionships gained in the 1924 games
at Paris.
In fencing. gymnastics. cycling,
modern pentathlon. equestrian COM
petition, and Yachting America is
sending teams that will give other
nations a fight of it, if nothing
more.
Although Germany. the British
empire. Finland. Sweden, and France
are certain to give Uncle Sans
runners and field stars trouble, none
of them individually is in sufficient
strength to break the long string of
triumphs the United States has
piled up.
Sprinters Are Dangerous
Wykoff, McAllister. Scholz, Pad
dock and company must watch out
for the stars Of Germany and Great
Britain. In the middle and Icing dis
tance runs Finland's iron men are
most to be feared. although in the
800 and 1900 meters Lloyd Hahn
and other American competitors will
need to watch Douglas Lowe Of
England. DR.. Otto Peltzer of Ger
many, and Edwin Wide of Sweden.
England. Sweden and South Africa
will be strong in the hurdles, and
Finland, Germany and Sweden in the
! field events.
In rowing Uncle Sam has the
Golden Bears of California to de-
pend upon to repeat the victories Of
Navy and Yale in the 1920 and 1924
games. The swimmers. boxers and
wrestlers will be heavy favorites to
retain their titles.
80 Women Aboard
The more deadly" Of the species
comprise much larger part of the
total Olympic ensemble than they
ever have before. Thirty nine women
are making the trip abroad. 10 Of
them forming the team for the
women's track and field events, the
first time such competition has
found place on the Olympic pro-
gram.
The American team will have a
week of preliminary training in
Europe before the chic. Olympic
program opens with the track and
field championships. starting Sun
day. July %.
Four hundred or more persons
were assigned quarters aboard the
President Roosevelt.
It is also probably the best or
ganized athletic expedition ever to
leave Yankee shores, guided. as it
Is, by soldier returning to Europe
on peaceful mission - Major Cen
eral Douglas Macarthur - and ac-
companied by such able figures in
American athletics as Murray Hull
bert, president of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union; Gustavus T. Kirby,
former head Of the Olympic Com
mittee; Frederick w. Ruben. sec
retary-treasurer Of the outfit: and a
staff Of coaches headed by Lawson
Robertson, chief of the track and
field forces.
This years Olympic campaign is
under new leadership. for General
Macarthur has taken over the pres
idency Of the Olympic Committee in
succession to the veteran Col. Rob-
ert NJ. Thompson. while Mr.. HUI
bert, head Of the A. A. U. forces.
has taken the place of the late Will
liam G. Prout. The latter died
while in the midst of organizing the
Olympic work.
Ship Is Unique
The chartered VOYAGE Of the
President Roosevelt has contrast as
well as similarity with former
Olympic argosies. Like the trip to
| Stockholm in 1912, the ship will
! also serve as living quarters for the
main body Of athletes while they
are in Amsterdam for the interna-
tional competition.
Unlike the voyage Of 1906 to
Athens, which took a stormy three
! weeks, the Roosevelt will dock at
Amsterdam, it is expected, in nine
days, to give the athletes time to
shake off their sea legs. The big
competition starts July 20.
The athletes, cream of the crop in
dozen branches Of sport and gath
cred from all over the country,
have been provided with every IA
cility for comfort and activity while
sailing across. They are travelling
first class; in fact they have been
9iven the preference over all other
members Of the party, officials and
others, in the allotment Of accommo.
dations. Formerly the athletes have
had to take what they could get.
Athletes Are Favored
'sOur policy this time has been
- favor the athletes in every re-
apoct,s Gen. Macarthur declared in
pronouncine the committees policy.
They are the ones who have the