Show MAY HAY MY CHARGE CHANGE PLACES LACES I Olympian Games Association Offers to Give Date to St St Louis Lus Chicago Jan an 31 H J T Furber Fuber jr president of the te tn Olympian Games asso association aso assoCiation today said of ot the proposed transfer of the games ganes game from Chicago to St Louis In 1904 I We have h ve as a yet received no official notification from Europe but there is isa I Ia Isa a strong probability that a a transfer to St Louis Luis will wl be made There is some something something something thing more Important than the Olympian Oy pian plan games the St Louis exposition or I both of them tem combined it is a feeling I I of friendliness between the two great geat i cities cites of the west which in every ev un undertaking I should support each other r to i ithe I the extent of their ability abil and promote i the spirit of amity ami which is necessary for the best interests of both The Te officers of the International Olympian Games association have haye placed before the International Olympian i pian plan committee whose headquarters are in Europe a statement setting I I I forth fort the complications which have arisen arsen owing to the postponement of I the St St Louis exposition until 1904 Upon representations on the part of oC St StLouis St StLouis Louis that the Olympian games If It held In Chicago the he same year as a the Worlds fair might seriously embarrass i ithe I Ithe the latter later enterprise the Chicago asso aso association elation decided to urge a postponement i of ot the games until 1905 05 stating to the chairman chaiman of the International Olympian OI m i plan pian committee at ht Paris Pa that if this thi 1 were not agreeable Chicago would I II I consent to a transfer of the contests to I St Louis but If neither of these tese courses cure j should meet the approval app rova of the Inter International rn I rational national Olympian committee Chicago was prepared to carry cr earr out the pro pr I gramme gme in 1904 as a originally contemplated contemplated plated plated The responsibility of a de decision d cislon now rests on the foreign com corn committee In taking the te position which It has h the Chicago organization has felt that it I should not permit local pride or am ambition ambition ambition to stand in the th way wy of the th suc sue success cess cesso of an n undertaking like the Louisi Louisiana Luil ana Purchase a se exposition e p OS which h ICh having h a ving I already received the te and sup support support I port por to the extent extant tt of oft of the te United States government Is now ts zion a I national enterprise ger 0 |