| Show I GREAT TRIBUTE mil TO AMERICA S ATHLETES By Associated Press NEW YORK July Jul- 10 Tho Tho regard in which foreign athletic Ue experts hold tho the American team I Olympic is shown in a rov review w published last lut week in tho the London JAndon Times s and just received here From Stockholm a a. member of ot the papers paper's staff writes 1 The fact which T tads stands out mostly Is la lathe the great strength of the American team It is generally recognized to bo be b by far U the e strongest not merely In point of oC numbers but aleo in all around ability I When hen one teams learns that there aro are among the Americans six men mM who can run the tho fOO 00 meters under 43 49 seconds six lx who can ean run the meters under und r 1 minute and 4 45 seconds as aft well AS ns ten first class hurdlers one f eels lR that thoy they might bo be Justified In tb their lr boast that they could send over three teams an any one of which would sweep swep th the boara In the stadium A finer lot of or men was as probably never got together The rhe average avenge height I Is nearly six feet and not even tho Swedish gymnasts aro are more symmetrically built The English athletes on the othor oth r hand and especially especial tho the a distance runners arc are built on a a. small scale One fears once again that we shall have to recognize that a rood good hi bl big one ono one always beats a good little one Whoever is to b beat at the Americans this year ear must not only be bo boa a a. great athlete but mu must mURt tt undergo a a. thorough and scientific course of ot training and In this the Americans Amen Ameri cans arc of or course pre Not Nt oven even the Swedes and they the haVo liate an American Amen Ameri can cnn trainer have o anything like the care lavished on them thorn that has been spent on the Americans Partly It Is 18 of tf course tho the result of or orthe the A m genius for or specializing and on whatever nm may bo the tho Immediate thing In tn hand TV whether nether In sports or business Partly und b by no means the least It-ast it is a a. question of dol dol- lars Jars How ITow Ho much in iu the ag aggregate the lie United States will spend in iii bringing Its lis athletes to tho time post wo uro not le privileged ed edI to len know a In an any C case O tho the contrast with I the tho Ineffectiveness of the tho British Olympic I council is almost alm t ludicrous |
