Show Sports Comments Comment By PETE FRITCHIE lE lEW W It Is moi than n us the United St States tes must do something to send mo more e co teamS team to the winter games of the Olympics TIlE FIZZLE at Innsbruck shows how impossible the present system is We ap apply ly lythe the of rule amateurism strictly strict strict- ly and Idealistically That would be fine if th the other corn com played the same way They dont Not just the tho communist count countries ies but many others make it highly attractive for their b best st athletes to have a afine afine fine life lile and be in training year Some of the hockey hock hock- ey stars Of non communist rles for example arc nationally known names and ande e enjoy joy various economic ad vantages as a r result sult YET SOME of our hockey players find it hard ard to get their fare to the Olympic Games They must stop work for a month or and they often encounter problems loins lems in iii leaving their families perhaps without assured Ii- Ii support There is no national trainIng train train- ing program from which one recognized government supervised suo su- organization selects the very best athletes and helps maintain them if necessary sary and justified SUCIL A program would cost very little It would probably ably make the United States preeminent again in the sum sum- men mer games and give the United Unit Unit- ed States winter games team teama a chance to among the top teams It is hot true that this would be commercialism And it is true true- that the communists are achieving propaganda propaganda prop prop- value from their pie pic successes which seem to advertise to the naive peoples of tile the world a Superiority in inthe inthe the communist system for youth A NATIONAL Olympic team I program would be beneficial l I for the young people of the 3 country and would be an tinI tin tin- I counter to the r ganda gains of the communists It is essential that the MU AAU and the get o o. o gether or a new organization I be formed Or lr some sway ay found to put the United States I In a competitive position |