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Show U. S. OLYMPIC Unsanitary Quarters and Poor Food Bring Sharp Criticism From 200 Athletes ON BOARD THE U. R. S PR1N- j CESS MAT' I KA Aug. 7 (By Wire-lesy, Wire-lesy, via. London to The AsspcUCted Press.) As a result at n midnight conference! the American Olympic athletes' committee toda revised th resolutions previously adopted for presentation to the American Olympic committee. by adding a paragraph emphasising bjameisssnesa of the army and ship's officer for alleged unsanitary quarters and food aboard ship. The additional paragraph laid the; charge of inefficiency upon the Olym- 1 pic committee and numed Justice Barrow R. Weeks, GustSVUS Kirby. : Samuel J. Dallas, Everett C Brown and Frederick W Bublon. committee members. The resolutions require that copies be given the secretary of 'war, the. press and the American Olympic com- j mlttoc- The printed originals were! sl(ft:i.l by nearly 2n0 athletes. The whip expected to dock at 8 o'clock tonight and the teams to ko direct to ; rhonln,uHo quarters. The resolution adopted yesterday requested request-ed among other thinks, hetter accommodations accom-modations during their stay at Antwerp Ant-werp than was provided on the voyage voy-age from New York. |