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Show I ! TRYING TOMM I i -s THE I OLYMPIC TEAM - H Thousands of AjjicrLr m can Athletes Are H Training for the H Trials on June 9 in , H Jhe Hope They Willi H Be Selected to Rep- H resent Ameripa in CnStockholmjni1 H CourHcbi1012. bj tt0 .NV-rrTori OiraM Vi. All H New Yokk, Saturday. TFIE nco rra3 scrawny and colorless, col-orless, much the Rime as any H ..York except its irontage, uncom- H monly lout;, Ncver bavin? been In the section before, we wondered H what could be beyond it? To be sure, the H area of the ground it bounded hinted at H a repair plant of some traction line, per- H haps at a plac. where moving pictures are H taken. But no trolley poles laid their ugly H tips across the skyline and no bearing H hoofs told of a posse galloping away before H an operator's camera. What could tho place be? Curious to iind out, we were search- H ing for the gate when suddenly from within H there issued the bark of a pistol. Above H 1 the fence a little curl of bluish smoke H t drifted, spread thinly and vanished. Then H ( to the other side of the tall barrier silence H returned. H ,' ' "Somebody's been shot!" cielaimcS my H t companion agitatedly. H ' The rest of us looked about, helplessly Hj j bewildered. H "Here!" cried another, catching an idea. H "Jump alongside of tboMcnce . and let H the lightest uan climb over on your bhoul- H ders. Somebody may be dying in there." H Stumbling, with n haste that at any H other time would havo bcn ludicrous, so H greatly had the shot unnerved us, when H suddenly we noticed that a stranger had H come up. Also, ho was laughing laughing H so hnrd that the bones of his slender body H must have rzttlod like castanets. l "Como do-n !" he cried between H chuckles. "Come down ! Nobody's killed in H there. That's where practice for the H J Olympic team is being held." ' H "But the shot the pistol?" demanded 1 our unbelieving one, who had never seen H an athletic meet. H "Oh, that," laughed the stranger. H "That was the starter's gun. lie cither H just fired to Gtart a race or ho was sig- H J nailing tiro men to gathorfor some triaL" H t At which our curiosity, already goaded j unmercifully, groaned aloud for satisfac- H tion, the upshot of it all being that the H stranger directed us to the gate in the i fence. Entering, we made out a group H of men gathered in the far corner of the H Then -we saw the athletic field, rimmed H by an oval track a quarter mile in cir-H cir-H I . cumfeTcnce rind slashed diagonally by the H dark cinder straightaway of the sprinters. Ht I And as wo neared the groupwc taw the H ' spnntrrs btandiug at thehead of this 1 straightaway, making ready for the trial. H I One, a stockily built young man whose i'T s Martin Sheridan, hair glistenStwiih the redness of pepper, stood digging Jiits spiked toes into the packed cinrlerslo test their firmness. Thick armband legs, freckled red, con-trasted con-trasted bj-ightlyvith the white of his running Jsulf,. Indeed, he was red all oyer, like Pho'ebjiwho raced with the sun. But fiear1 iimw-ere other figurea-A figurea-A tall, light hairea Viking, smiling grimly, grim-ly, shed his bathrobe. Another, laughing laugh-ing and Unconcerned, tried to draw him into conversation. The others, all lithe limbed, sinewy men, were walking about. "The 're getting ready for the one hundred hun-dred metre trial," whispered the stranger. Now the starter calls them to the mark. There is a bristlo among the timers as they clutch their watches. Far down the straightaway, where the judges wait, a strand of white worsted has been strung across. As red Phoebus, the fnfr Viking and all of them jerk into position they 6ce it and their eyes flnsh. Each determines to break it to win! "On your mark V commands the starter. The row of backs bend over, cabting trembling shadows before them. "Get set!" he calls. Training for Trial Meets. The bent line crouches lower. Long muscles "begin to run up and down under their skin. The shadows tremblo more perceptibly. Then the starter's pistol flashes in the sunlight and explodes sharply. The row of backs lunge forward. Shoulder to shoulder they dash awny, spreading across tho -track in a line that twists and bend,' first one, then another forging ahead. The Viking is gliding along liko a shadow Phoebus' freckled legs are driving furiously. Tho others are behind, struggling. An instant later, It seems, and the white worsted js -snapped and the Viking Vik-ing has fluug his long arms overhead. The others have hurled themselves headlong and w,e cannot see how they finish. For what? That's the thought that came to u until we knew knew more about this Olympic team and why men isolate them-sehea them-sehea behind fences in rcm6tc parrs of the city and undergo such tremendous phjsical strain. The' stranger, who is on of the trainers of the Irish-American Athletic Club, whose, grounds at Celtic Bark -we had visited, said f " -" "That was o'nJya trial ThoU men'are all sprinters, good ones, too. IfJTlold you their names you'd recognize them on ' the newspaper sporting pages to'-morrow. : t i'C fiXiWm lop - f ? l. Ay V Vi .' pM& f.Kvt mWiA . Ik George Bonhag-, ImKF la.a.c mm' Ralph Rose, S OlvrriDic A. G , i 5PIatt Adam?, ' 'N. Y. A. C; '-i : j They re training like dogs so as to be selected se-lected as members of the American "team BHHBHHWPP-"'HBSiHBB? that will comppto atjthp lympic gamc-si iu Stockholni.,tSwcdcii,'rfrpni June 20 to i July If). This country lusla reconlj, uuintain, jon kuow."VVe won nil the Trecent Olympiads againjlf tlftjiiations of tho world. Wc beat them it. .Athens. ; eight j cars ago, at London four. ears ' !a 'S3'i- -Ml ag6iuid we're out to do it ns.unWi 0 VAnd,WilIigilI thpsmen be takqfn!- 'ICcrtamly not," Ju5l(felicd---the'mc -' tolerant Hugh that wc had heard outside thefice-lTJiat,s w'hy they're training - so hard. They hope to be chosen by the Kfank Irons, rvChicago A- A Mti& Ilk '-.?$&, J3P: r BKS&s1 (- put every alhlelo Svlioliiuks he-has a chance in a state of nenous worryr Why, the committee them-'ched won't know until the last miniito who's going" "But who, for lustance, of the sprinters we just saw," was asked, "has a chance logo?- - 7 " ;r- ":- "Th.U man," he replied, pointing to a spriugj limbed jouth whom we hadn't tiolicd. "He is Mcjer, the IriKh-Amcjr can ABlotic Club staa;' d& "ArcWrenoothefe ,ff There Rosenbcrgfr nnotherot. the Winged Fjs$V-'rs. but he's notfoiuvto-1ji.v," notfoiuvto-1ji.v," ho explained. "The other crack printers whwill represent us in the 100 re ecnUu Stockholm Arc sciittcrcd toughout the couiTty-. 'Way down in ToiGvvyn Ilcnry a" phenomenal performer, per-former, Is training .uvay on a farm near Eden. Up in Michigan, Craig, possibly the best short distance man m the conn-try, conn-try, is hard at work near Detroit. Foster, the old Harvard star, is preparing for the trjouts at an athletic club just outside of Boston. That about all. Oh. no! Thero's Cary, who used to run for .Annapolis That boy's a naval oulccr now., He's on the battle ship Connecticut. I don't sef how he manages lo do any training, but I hear he hones to trot on tho team. Don't soo how h's solus: to manage it. though." WiM the sprintnrs thru ln taken just from those men jou nicnlinned?" I in-flliirod in-flliirod The Sprinters. "Well, Uiey, must have men for the two hnndrfd metre dish." he continued "Ford, who is traiuing now at Cornell University, comes in this class. So docs Drew, who Isulugging awaj at Boston. Resides, Craig and Mcjcr, one hundred metre men, are also available for the two hundred metre-. You can put it down as sa'fe that from thcc names will be selected se-lected the sprinters of the American team " And from what he told me further I learned that the training of sprinters was one of the hardest operations in the build- ll&K il " WlWm Texas and Irish-Am. A C Harry Babcock, &y WmMSBJIBII I Columbia and N.Y. A. C. v? $$kMvJm3&!H s special committee that will pick the team. This body will base its selections ou the results of three big trial meets that will be held In different parts of the country. The first, which will Come on May IS at t San Francisco.Js for the athletes of the ri West. Thc-e9oud, at Cbjcago a week e later, is for the men -of the Middlo West, and for the 'Efist' there will be the meet ,. at the Harvard Stadium, ou June $ At llw.o.. l.,. . ".' .1.- ....i -r .ii p unoc viucu LTvuius ine lUL-uiuerc ol ail i- amateur .athletic ,clubs .scattered through-a through-a out tliccountry aviII compete, and for the college men, a number of whom arc bound s to be on the team, there aro the intercoh 1 legpte championships' 5u Juue 1, in Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, for the committee to btfSc thejr selections upon. Do you wonder -thut ever) athlete is up on his toes these days? 2 They have to make brilliant showings- at ; these trial meeLs to be considered at all, and even then it doesn't mean that the committee will award them places in the team. Olympic Team the Goal. "Think ot the thousands of athletes trj-ing trj-ing for that team the honor to represent this country in athletic competition against the world! I tell jou those days from June S, wheu tho list trial meet is-held, is-held, to June 1-1, when .the stcanisbintbat" w ill carry .tin tTanPiiud vlhoscw hovac? company it to Stockholm' vill sail, will, J. Rosenbergcr, l A A.-C. ing of an Olympic team. The reason is this- Sprinters .no delicate pieces of mechanism. They set out of order very easil. The other l tinners the men who I ma uie instances irom a quarter mile (four hundred metres in Ohmpic language) lan-guage) up, arc the sturdier, solider machines. ma-chines. Sprinters train for a burst of spued that for a hundred yard,, lasts ten .seconds, sometime a hfth of a second I under, sometimes over. They are keyed iHMo'u-tornhc mcntul as well as physical pitch. The slightest ailment and they aie useless. It's diftcrcnt with the more phlegmatic distance men. FurUicrmore I learned that these sprint era have regular training campaigns thai they follow, so they may become member; of the team, 'These they begun lust autumn, au-tumn, when the indoor athletic season started. They competed in many of the early meets keeping their stride iu form H5d tjiqirs attuned to the bark of the st.irqc's-JifetoI. Around mid-February, however, onevby one they dropped out of competition. ' TJiej w ere Hiking UIe five 1o six week.lujoff fhat wise '.sprinters ir. eVally dcvhefqre brartching into an outdoor campaign. Then about the middle of March they begin activities again. Thov take walks, not too long, for such efforts are bad for sprinters. j They stiffen muscles -which -abould be as'Titho as a cat's. Two niifcj, isenn'j orally Hie limit. After muscles are loosened up after the lay off by ihj method, running fuUs nra donned and the ;SotS?R nlonp thCf-jrack, lifting their knSns high as opMHJp. ThJgJ 1r to limopU Jl0lr strIde -TIin thclcrouchv ing siraHs' are practised not more'"thnn two or throe a day for the first week. Little by little the work i? increnscd until trials such as the one wc chanced to see become ,i daily feature of the .practice. So much for the-' sprinters. Broidly, that is the way all of thcni arc ot work now building up our Olympic team. The Broad Jumpers. But watch another trial. It is for the broad jump and Fl.itt Adams, the wonderful won-derful jumper of the New York Athletic Club, is about to make his effort. It is a warm afternoon another of those strange days injected into late spring and the sunlight is streaming'down. About the jumpinj, pit, au obloug-of soft dirt dug iu the fresh grass, nien with measuring tapes and writing tablets In their hands t( are gathered. At the other end of the jj firmly rolled path leading a way' from the board at the pit's edge Adams is standing. stand-ing. At the signal" from the men by the pit be will dash down the path, spring- p ing from the bosrd and lcapiog forward. We watch li:m Hq begins 'ip Walk up and down, up and down, full of restrained p pom-cr. struggling to break into swift, d short movements. We sen iVr muscles long, graceful shapes that crawl under his brown skin, lazilr, like things nlivc. Then one of the men -It the pit shouts .something, raising his arms. 'Adams i6 already In position For a moment he stands there silently, eyeing the takeoff board in a manner that suggests stern determination Then he da&he8; forward. A spiked shoe tears the dirt ciously. Another another a continuous drum of Hying feet, of racking euort. Little clouds of dirt arc aising in his wake. Another bound and his left foot drives into the board, stamping hard as if to drive it into the ground. He rises. The body, with both knees jerked up high In front, shoots through the air. He falls, his heels thudding deep ,into the heavy dirt, but, scrambling up, dances lijjhtlv out of the pit Comes the click of a metnl tape unreeling At flic takeoff take-off board a man is bout, holding one cud of n-7opjr steel wire; In the pit anothet Is making the reading. Abruptly this oue loul s up. " - "Twenty-three feet oue inch!" he calls. Hearing him, Adams grins. He is almost al-most in championship form. This time it is a Xew York Athletic Club man who enlightens us as to how the broad junipers arc helping to bul.d the team. "Adams is the only star In New York." I he explains "The other broad jumpers will be drawn from different parts of the country. Across the continent in Sun Francisco there's a man hard at practice. prac-tice. He is Snedigan and belongs to one of the California-clubs. Iu Chicago there's Irons, another crack jumper He's been working-all wiuter-iir the Chicago Athletic Ath-letic Association club house, aud by this time ought td lie iu shape to do something some-thing worth while, Guttcrson is another star. He's doiug his training at Boston. From the colleges they ought to pick up a man. too. For instance, there's Mercer Mer-cer down at the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. He'll .jump with any of llicin if he's right, and Icayc it to Mike Murphy, Mur-phy, their trainer, to see that he is right. Holdcn, of Ynlc, is another likely contender. con-tender. Oh, jes, there's lots of material to pick the broad jumpers from. They won't take more than three, jou kuow." Severe Practice. t As to their practice how they arc i working to attain positions on the team it is most severe. Not only do they have i to train like the sprinters (speed is neces- i sury for the dush down the path to the takeoff board), but they mus.t eiercise their legs for jumping purpose ab well. Many of them hop on ono leg is many as fie. hundred times in a day bo as to strcugthen 1 lie jumping muscles and gain greater spring. They jump for distance about twice a week and sprint jho rest of the time. Always they aro studying how to hold their knees higher while in the air, for that, is one of the secrets of huc- cess in their craft. Unlike the spriuters, I it js rnro that they jnrticipptc in trials. once a fortnight being considered Mifli- cient. t, "Aud like the broad jump,'coutiutied our informant, "men aro training through- IK out thc country for the other po called jsjfc field events in which on Olympic team T must be strong. These are the standing jump, the high Jump, the hop-stcp-und- r j& - jump, the pole vault, the j-nelin, disco's and hammer throws and theshot put. .Jjj For the high jump Lawrence is hard .it &' Work up in Boston. Dalrymple is nh doing his-training hi the same city. IIef 5 a Massachusetts Tcck student Down'in Er, Philadelphia, Burdick, tho University of jf Pennsylvania jumper, is working up tho spring of his leg muscles, ncre in New York therd are JfJrumpehv of the New York Athletic Club; Krickson, of the ; Molt Haven, nnd Porter, of the Irish. Out in San Francisco, too, there's a al. liable 'man'. He is Horinge, and if ' strained knoo gets better he'll come In . ; , for serious consideration. Our standing I jump mqn arc Roy Ewry, the New York .thU.-tio.Clnl veteran, who neter aeetns , ' get old; the Adams boys Piatt and W ten, of tlie sHineVCHll) am Goehring, of jf ic Mohawks. 4 J& ''Our pole Adulters arc scattered, too. 9 here's 5c6ot and Belloh working in San ft- 'ranciscp, Cooke in Cleveland, Coyle in ' 'hicago and Babcock nnd Dukes around -j , re wl York. For ine juu-lin throw there's I :op, in Frisco: Brood, of the Irish, Sheri- I an, too, and Platr, Adams, of the New , 11 4 BBw Jf wm! M V ftSdfiiVP ''e -- "Pat Macdonald, 1 Alvah T: Meyer. - - 'iCJCSw r 4 N XlSHV A. Kiviar, L A. hC. & York A.C The discus men arc spread out, foo, all busy building the team Ivanai City is watching Lee Talbot go throusb , his stunts. Mucks is at Chicago. In New York there are Edgren, of the New York A.C. ; Duncan, of the Pastime, and Bcatty, ip: of Columbia. So with the hammer throwers throw-ers A;ain jou find Talbot out in Kansas City, and in New York McGratb, I'lana-gan I'lana-gan nnd Gillcs " , The Long Distance Men. ' "But what of the other runners'''' I asked hini "From the 400 metre to the 10,000 metre men thcj'rc hard at it," h- replied "Training harder than any of the others, for that's the lot of distance men. They must run, run, run, for the strain on their wiud nnd endurance is trpinpnilnns. Frnm Wyman, out at Frisco, to Lindberg and Daenport at Chicago, to Gissing and Rosenbergcr iu New-York, thej-'re plugging away for the 400 metre. Building up our representation in the S00 metre are Ed-mousou Ed-mousou at. Seattle, John Paul Jones at Cornell, Cor-nell, Sheppard in New York, all the middle mid-dle dfstance' cracks, and for tho larger events Hanivnn is training hard out ia Michigan, Ilcdlung at Boston, Tewanlna at the Carlisle -Indian School, Bern at ' Cornell, to suy .nothing of all the local , stnn Iviuut, Bonhag, Scoot, ' raull-a!l hard at it." As he finishes talking a company of giants carrjing iron cannon balls as care- I lessly as if they were bunches of spring I violets come lumbering ncro55 the turf. I Pouderingly they set the balls down, and I then, one by one, with a mighty thrust of I their thick arm, drive them" through the I air and thumping to the ground: They I look like ti ms of fWtiHnii i :' .t... B old bruising mass play days. H "And those?" somebody usked, pointing H to the newcomers. M "Oh, thej're the shot putters," he ex- H plained. "That giant, the biggest of them H all, is ilacDonald, of the Irish. He's H bound to be qn the team. But there are other stars Rose is practising out in Call- I fornia, Harner in Michigan and Coc, ia I H Boston." I H "Is that nil they'll bo takc'r?al6uirTor, H just to throw those cannon balh?" M "No," he grinned. "They have u tug, of M war at eery Olympiad, so after the Amer M lean team has cleaned yp all the other H events, why, these dray horses will laj- hold I H of the tug of war rope and drag, the aikc." J R nations' teanjs all over Sweden." H Which one considered sullicient eiplann- H tion of tho confidence athletic men now. H hold of our Olympic team in the making. H 1 |