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Show AMERICAN COMMITTEE DESIRES ONE CHANGE "XKW YORK. Dee. JC Memher.s of the A nif rieau Ol.vmpte gaiiifs eomniittee, when informed today by the Associated Press of the seleet iun of the dates for tho various competitions at Antwerp next , , year, expressed satisfaction with the pro-jrra.m, pro-jrra.m, wite. the exception of the dates select ed for the. swiininifis and rowing: events. It was pointed out that these contests, fall! i.ir almost a month after the eotnnlet icn of the track and field Raines, w-'tild badly upset the plans for the American team now being organized. . I'm less n cha nge can he effected, it may be necessary to send the team to r lM',um m two sections, as the swimmers swim-mers and oarsmen, a. delegation running Into double figures, cannot be transported transport-ed with the track contingent and held in Belgium for a month after the major portion of the team is en route for home. Plana for the I or mat ion of tho Ameri-, Ameri-, can team are rapidly advancing, and ar-va ar-va ngements for the housing of between I ''ton and KO contestants from the United States are well under way. Owing Ow-ing to the low alt it ude of Ant werp, it has been derided to quart -t the team at a considerable distance from the scene of the games proper, and transport the entrants from day tu day to the stadium as repi ired by tho program. This was considered to be a w iser course than to permit the athletes to be housed amid tlwe noise and confusion of the city and in close proximity to tho damp air of the salt - meadows. Jt also was pointed out that Hie course for the Marathon race from Brussels to Antwerp will be over historic ground and along the same roads over which the German army advanced in its initial attack at-tack on Belgium in August, 1914. The runners will pass through Malines, famous fa-mous for the determined stand of Cardinal Car-dinal Mercier and the cathedral which the Germans used as an observation post in their attack on Antwerp. All along the twenty-f ive miles will be evidences of the bitter fighting in the earliest days of the war, including the completely wrecked forts at Wavre, destroyed by the shells of the big Ber-thas, Ber-thas, and the hundreds of graves of the fallen combatants. The race probably will be run over a Belgian block and asphalt course, unless special provision is made for a soft dirt pathway paralleling the main roads. f . |