The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
DEFICIT CLOSE TO S6O,OOO AS SAILING WEARS
Olympic Administrative Committee Needs Addi-
 tiOnal S5O,OOO
By HENRY McLEMoRE

| UA10 ls 9e AAHAAAAAvtuAA kNAea wv sNA~S the harbor and heads for Hamburg tomorrow she will carry an Ameri@ can Olympic team which Is the largest numerically, strongest ath. leticaliy and stoniest broke flnan. cially, in history.
 There will be upwards of S04 ath- letes on board--some 80 more than made the trip to Amsterdam in 1928, when the depression still was way around the corner and money grew on bushes. But they will be on board only after one of the maddest financial scrambles in history. or the a teams which will sail, the members of only 8 of them will walk up the gangplank with tickets which did not cost them something out of their own pockets. These fortunate teams are mems swim- ming, mems track and field, basket. ball, boxing, equestrian, modern pentathlon, rowing and soccer.
 The members of the other teams were told by the poverty. .harassed Olympic committee, ct the close of it's final accounting meeting yeS- terday, that they simply would have to make up the deficits in their budgets themselves, or shear their personnel to the bone.
 This announcement waS greeted first by walls of anguish, and then by c desperate drive for funds. The managers, coaches and members of the crippled" teams sent telegrams by the dozen, made telephone calls by the score and reached deep into their already thin wallets.
 Early today 1t was learned that the frantic appeals had been suc- cessful in most cases, and that only three teams--women swimming, women's track and field, and held hockey-were in danger of having to prune their lists.
 The women swimmers must raise 93,600 by noon today (the deadlinel or else be reduced from l8 to 10. Practically all of this is promised, ahd is expected to be on hand.
 The women's track and field team, must secure SS,328. It is believed that the cash will be laid on the line and Q full complement car. ried.
 The field hockey squad, which was given but $500 by the committee pc. cause 1t Is only . step above the exhibition class, ia In fairly dire straits. The boys are short SS,22S, and the committee has refused to take their notes. Playing Manager Leonard O'Brien, however, was still hopeful that the deficit could DC made up.
 Ali other sports were in fairly solvent condition. The mems swim ming team raised It's s10,O00 with" out much trouble, 5000 coming from the water polo and diving try. outs In Chicago, and S6,000 from the swimming trials. Henry Penn Burke, chairman of the rowing com. mittee, had the S6,000 his sport lacked ready to turn over to Treas. irer Qustavius Kirby. Mems track and field had Q deficit of ell,7oB, but only because the s26,00O it earned at Randail's Island In thei finai tryouts Saturday and Sunday has vet to be turned over by the New York city parks commission.
 The men and women gymnastic teams lover the top" as were the weight. lifting, baseball, field hand. ball, wrestling and pistol teams, but only because the members reached into their pockets and paid most Of their own expenses. The same was true of the canoeists, cyclists, and fencers. The latter, it b known, were assessed e200 each for the honor of parrylng and thrusting TOT the worlds wealthiost nation -
 The women gymnasts paid SSVO each and some of them are nve- and ten -cent store girls
 Kirby, in announcing the inabils ity of the committee to finance Q flill team, said 1t was nothing short of disgraceful that this country had forced the athletes who will carry It's colors against the world to pay their own way.
 Kirby said that the present cash deficit for the sports budget was 167. .700. To this must be added an additional Sb0,0O0 needed to pay for the operating expenses of the Olym' bic administrative committee for the next four years and to pay back S2B,O00 debt.
 Kilby said that the operating ex' uense of the committee was sec" ondary consideration. -
 The only other American Olympic team which was beset with tinai- cial troubles was the 1920 edition, which sailed on the 8. 8. Princess Matolka with 6 e26,000 deficit.