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Show AMERICANS IN OLKGAIS First Step Toward Entering Teams Will Be Taken Tomorrow. m XEW TORK, Nov. 26. The first formal step toward America's participation in the Olympic games at Antwerp. Belgium, in Atiffust. 1920. will be taken here FHday night when the American Olympic committee com-mittee will confer regarding entering of learns in the seventh Olympiad. Prior to the conference the committee and representatives repre-sentatives of the leading sport go veiling veil-ing bodies of the country wllL meet Colonel Col-onel Osterreith, the Belgian director general gen-eral of sports, ttl a dinner at which plans for the games will be outlined. Colonel Osterreith, wJio i 9 chief of the Belgian military mission in the United States', as well as a member of the committee com-mittee on preparation for tho seventh Olympiad, requested an opportunity to explain ex-plain in detail arrangements for the international in-ternational meet, the first since the Stockholm games in 1912. The dinner, which will be held at the New York Athletic club, will be attended by members of the Amateur Athletic Union, Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Ama-teur Athletes of America, Western Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate Athletic Conference. National Nation-al Lawn Tennis association. United States Football association. Association of Amateur Ama-teur Oarsmen. Fencers' League, United States Revolver association. American Trapshootlng association and National Cycling association. While plans for organization and transportation trans-portation of the United States team are still in a vague state. U is understood that more than 100 athletes, cyclists, mark amen, football players, swimmers and fencers will make the trip to Belgium. The team will sail from this country early in July and the competitions, beginning about the middle of August, will continue con-tinue from three to four weeks. Tryouts for track and field athletes will be hold in various parts of the United States, and It (s probable that the winners will meet In a final set of games In the east just prior to the sailing. Reports from abroad are to the effect that France. England. Italy and tho Scandinavian Scan-dinavian Countries have already begun their training campaigns. Judging from preliminary trials, the generally accepted opinion in America that the United States team will nave a walk-over in the track events Is not warranted. |