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Show ITHEY EXPECT MUGH FRDIW WESTERW MEW Athletic Material in This Region May Have Part in I Berlin Olympic. II The cait looks largely to the west to furnish material for the Olympic team which will bo sent to Berlin in 19J6, nccordinc to W. E. Day, physical direc-J direc-J tor of I be Dcsorot pymnasiiun. who re-I re-I rumorl yesterday from Now York, where i o went to attend the annual meeting I of the Amateur Athletic association. I Knstern athletic officials have n high J rrpard for the prowe?s of Alma Ttich- ar ls of Provo, Olympic high jump chain- jiion, and they loci that, t ho develop- mcnt of nthlctics in the west is yet m ts infancy, t Mr. Day attended the meeting in New r York to represent the Intonnountain Athletic association, which is affiliated I with the national organization. Ho was t elected a member ot the board of governors gov-ernors of the national association, and I also a member of the national basketball basket-ball rules committee, and was called upon for a toast at the bniiqiiot jjivon at the close of the convention at the Waldorf-Astoria. An opinion among those prosent at the meeting-, according to Mr. Day, was that soccer, as a popular sporty is bumming bu-mming morn and more rocoynized in 1 the United State?. Dr. .Manning, president presi-dent of the United Urates Football association, as-sociation, said that it was being adopted u schools throughout the country, and thnt it would eventually bo a national jfatne. Ir. Day extended an invitation 'o Dr. Hirschman, who has been sent by the Austrian government to investigate investi-gate athletic methods iu tho United 1 States, to visit Suit Lake on his tour of tin- west. Mr. Uav said vestordav that he was J.tI to get back'to Salt Lake. Ho had much praise for tho business activities of thti city, and unid that Snlt Lake was in a "far better condition finnn-cinllx finnn-cinllx than cities iu the eat. In dis-h dis-h i u sing plana which the liitermountain thletic niaociation intended carrying out this winter and next spring, "Mr. Dnv said that boxing and wrestling tiMTcnmenta would be arranged; that swimming meets would be held from t we to time, and that a big track and neb! meet would bo held, including a j Miurutliou run. It is probable that the conation will send a team to parti- i i-te !ii the. games at the Tanama-Pa- itie exposition iu 111.1. |