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Show IUA I WINNING TEAM English Hope in Time to Develop De-velop Material for Olympic Games. American athletes will be greatly Interested In the comprehensive plan by which the English hope in time to develop material for a winning Olympic Olym-pic team. The plan is suggsted by the English Amateur Athletic Association. Asso-ciation. It Is proposed to create Interest Inter-est in all grades of competitors from school boy to the club athlete. A systematic series of championship meets is being arranged, starting with boys schools and ending with the national events championships under the approval and co-operation of the heart masters and a committee- from the schools to accept entires and to manare the meeting Country championships To take place in countries ' where they do not at present xist at metric' met-ric' distances Triangular Olympic contests. Triangular contests between bet-ween England. Scotland and Ireland at metric distances. Olympic field events To include these In the Am ateur Athletic Association championships champion-ships and Introduce such field events which are not at present included, and, if possible, to arrange 'or a two days meeting Scratch races. To assist affiliated clubs with prizes, provided they Include approved scratch races at metric distances in their programme. Such races to in elude scratch races during 1913 and 1914 for novices, open only to competitors com-petitors who have never won a prize in athletics. A series of competitions competi-tions at Olympic distances and events to be called Olympic novice trials, the events to be level and open only to competitors over seventeen years of age who hae never won a prize at athletics, ordinary school com petitions and Junior sections of ath- Ijciii; liu ug uui in CUUIU as WIDS On the question of training ami trainers the A. A A officals have announced that the question of train ing has been considered at length and it was agreed that necessary arrang ments should be made for central quarters in London and other centers IVCD af Manchester. Birmingham'. Cardiff and Newcastle, where an off-i iclal trainer and adviser would be on the track at a set hour to advise and ! help approved athletes It was decid I ed also to provide proper sets of apparatus for field events at various centers; to hold Olympic trials in: 1915 to urge every affiliated club I or permitted body to include a field I event in their program. In order to ' encourage a general effort on the part of athletes to better their times and distances, the A. A A. proposes to sward standard medals, cold, silver and bronze, to athletes heating stand ards and field events, no athlete to hold more than one medal for each class at any one distance. oo |