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Show FRENCH ATHLETToTrEPARE TC ENTER OLYMPIC GAMES Careful System of Elimination Being- Carried Out by Army Athletic Directors; Young Guille-j. Guille-j. mot Shows Up Well in Trials. NETV YORK, Dec. ,0. Adopting t lie .ame systematic meihod Tiiii:h Amorirau athletic authorities author-ities proved successful in the pas'", European nations arc preparing i'or the Olympic panics of J'J0 in a thorough manner uiiich Lodes no easy victory for the United States athletes tu the internatitjim I track meet at Antwerp, Ant-werp, Belgium, lujxt August. Campaigns Cam-paigns i'or the development of teams, collection oi' i'unds and other important details essential to success in such an elaborate undertaking, are already under un-der way, aided in several cases by government gov-ernment supervision and subsidies. No better example, may be cited than the plans and arrangements of the French, which involve a generous ui-o of the army methods and system. Three classes remain mobilized of the great army of Franco at the present time. Tltev ajo the class of 1917, bovs aed 22; that of 1018, aged 21, and the class of 1019, youths of U. Thus the flow- er of the French race, phvsically and from an a-hle'ie point of view, ).;mains under urn:.-. Tltev a re u'striiju: ed in various garrison towns an. I depart-meats depart-meats of France. Ir is from anion!.' those tin-..' clas..cs that a'liletie France expects to recruit thiry or forty first class athletes to add 'to the alreu.iv fair quota of men who are slated tu represent Frame ;it Antwerp. Program for Army Athletes. The following prouram has been iV-filled iV-filled upon by the at luetic, directors of the French army at the head of whom is Colonel sce, chief of tlie Joinville tiehool of Athletics for the French army. Fliininn; ion trials will 1 conducted con-ducted in every regiment of the above three classes, each soldier making- a specialty of the sport lor which he has shown the greatest inclination and to which ho lias la.ju pronounced filtest by the doctor of the regiment. Thivo trials will occur after three, four aud perhaps six months of preparatory training under the eye of an athletic director. Soldiers who hawi shown class warranting- their tiiidereoint; further fur-ther traiuing will be pieked out and directed di-rected to one of the lnre-e centers nearest near-est their billet: Strasburg, LyoitSj iMar-seines, iMar-seines, Bordeaux aud Paris. According' to the schedule adopted, the men chosen as being worthy of further fur-ther trial will, reach their various headquarters head-quarters sometime in the spring. Then seniifiuals will be held in Slrassburg, Lyons, rSlarseillos and Bordeaux aud it will be a case of the survival of the fittest. These will be sent to Join-ville, Join-ville, near Paris, where tho final touch will be put to their preparation. Fifty chiefs of battalions are just now finishing a special course of training train-ing at the join ville school and in n few; weeks will be disseniina I ed among the garrison towns of France to commence com-mence the (raining of the men and officers. of-ficers. Two hundred officers and 130 men are already hard at work at the school, some of them trainiug in their .ow-n behalf, be-half, others getting ready to tak.? in hand the men who will be sent to them from the provinces. .Toinville is olose to the Pershing stadium and the final work of the Olympic candidates will be done at the former American stadium. One million francs of the 10,000,000 voted by tho chamber of deputies for tho ' intensification of athletic training train-ing among French youth has been appropriated ap-propriated for the work at Joinville. Discovered by an American. The officers and men at Joinville are already training in earnest and an Associated As-sociated Press correspondent recently saw Tirard negotiate the 100 meters in 11 seconds flat; irieurin cover 200 meters me-ters in 22 1-2; Carlaix run 1000 meters in two minutes, 35 seconds, and young Guillemot do 10 kilometers without being be-ing pressed in 33 minutes. These performances per-formances arc very close to championship champion-ship form. Young Guillemot is considered as being be-ing (lie most likely successor to the famous fa-mous J. Bouin. Ife is somewhat awkward awk-ward in his style, but when it is realized real-ized that six months ago ho had never competed in a race, (he way in w-hich he has been winning from all competitors competi-tors lately w-ould seem to indicate (hat with a little more experience and training train-ing he w'ill be a hard man to beat at Antwerp. Guillemot was discovered by an American officer. He was stationed at Brest and attended the field games of the American army on tho 30th of May. Standing on the side lines he expressed (he desire to talc part in a fivo-mile race which was just being started. Tie was allowed to enter, more as a t'oke than anything else. He peeled off his tunic, took off his army shoes, niid ran in his stocking feet, running a splendid race and finishing third. |
