Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-16 | Page 13 | American Olympic Plans Announced

1EI1 0L1PIC PLANS INDICES Metric Events Will Be Discarded Dis-carded in Trials Set for United States NEW YORK, April 15 The events to be contested at all American Olympic tryouts meets this summer will be tho regular amateur athletic! union standard track and field competitions com-petitions in placo of the Olympic metric me-tric events that will prevail at Ant- werp. This decision, announced today, is necetsilatcd by the fact that the! final trial for places on the American team which will sail for Belgium on j July 24, will be held in conjunction' with the amateur athletic union j championships j According to present schedule the. A. A. U. titular games will be staged J In the Harvard stadium at Boston ori' Saturday, July 17 and will bo prcced-i Hi by sectional Olympic tryouts at' Philadelphia and Chicago on June 26.' and Pasadena. July 3. The final trials! for places on- the steeplechase and' decathlon teams will be held ( In this city during the week beginning July; 11 and will be conducted under the! Olympic standards and regulations. nn I