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Show GERMANS PREPARING FOR OLYMPIC GAMES Thousands of Youths Are Being Be-ing Drilled in All Branches . of Athletics. BERLIN, Aug. 2.AmerIcans, -who after their triumph ln Stockholm last year, may think that they will only have to come over here to repeat the same thing at the Berlin Olympic games in 1S16, had better look to their laurels in time, for all Germany Is possessed by a craze for sport. All over the country thousands and thousands of young men are patiently drilling almost every day in all the branches of sport, and from among all these the most promising athletes will be chosen a year from January next, and during the following fifteen months, up to the very time of the great international interna-tional contest, all the young men selected will be absolutely In the hands of autocratic auto-cratic trainers, who will bring them as close as possible to absolute perfection. The expenses of this long training will willingly oe borne by enthuslastlo lovers of sports all over the country. To a certain extent Germany has always al-ways been a sport-loving countrv. Its 'tumvereins," which are so well known in every city in America where a German colony exists, are older than any similar associations in Europe, but of late the craze for sports has reached proportions unknown In any other country ln tho world. Kaiser Enthusiastic. This- renaissance of athletics is, in the first place, due to the kaiser personally. w"onas encouraged sport from the day of his accession, and his pride was certainly cer-tainly justified when he said in his speeoh at a regatta the other day that there are over 50.000 oarsmen In Germany, belonging belong-ing to more rowing clubs than in all tho rest of Europe together. It Is. indeed, true that there is a colossal colos-sal development of sport in Germany. Games which never before had a, foothold are springing into widespread popularity. Polo is a case In point. The sport is officially of-ficially prohibited in the army by order of the emperor, who still thinks the physical dangers Involved for officers are wholly out of proportion to any benefits to be derived. de-rived. Yet a. group of gentlemen riders and other enthusiasts havo just laid out at the, new "garden city" of Frohnau, to the northeast of Berlin, a polo field and clubhouse, with a series of tennis courts, golf links, rifle and archery ranges, cro-ciuet cro-ciuet grounds, and everything else conducive condu-cive to the cultivation of outdoor Ilfo. Polo Is Popular. Apropos of the imperial edjet against polo in the army docs not seem to prevent pre-vent tho crown prince from taking an interest in the game of golf as ho is often tseti on tho links of the new Berlin Golf club in tho western part of the city, whore he is constantly adding to the number of his American acquaintances, whose freedom free-dom and easy manners and absolute freedom free-dom from snobbishnqss appeal strongly to him. Thanks to the frequent visits of tho crown prince, the club Ih prospering beyond be-yond all the expectations of its founders and in 1915 it will have beautiful new links near Wanaee, the favorite resort of fash ionable Berlin, close to the royal palaces at Potsdam. These links are to cost about $200,000, of which amount, nearly one third has been raised without any difficulty But now there fs a hitch as the German mom-born mom-born refuse to invest more unless they are guaranteed thai tb club shall oBsen-tlally oBsen-tlally be German in character nnd management. man-agement. At first sight ono might -suppose that as golf is a British game, Introduced and taught to the Germans by British and Americans, who have run the club for now many years, its further conduct might properly be left in their hands. On the other hand, it 1h reasonable enough that a club whloh must depend ror Jts, financial nuccesa on Gorman support sup-port una membership, and in. moreover, within a feW'Tnllea of he kaiser Potsdam Pots-dam residence and th large Potsdam garrison, gar-rison, should in tho main be under German Ger-man influence and control. The idea is to create a club Homethlng after the, manner of the American "country "coun-try club," with sleeping accommodations &r FJ2ii?"k7on1 and tea-time attractions lor visitors from Berlin. |