Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-04 | Page 8 | Here's Dope on Cost of Olympic

HERE'S DOPE DM i COST OF OLYMPIC America Will Send More Than 200 Men to Compete at a Cost of $200,000. CHICAGO, May 4. It will coat $1000 a man to send American athletes to compete in the Olympiad at Antwerp this summer. Two hundred men will comprise the team $200,000 in all. Half of them will come from the central district, the territory from Buffalo Buf-falo and Pittsburg on the east of Omaha Oma-ha and KanBas City on the west, and from the Canadian line to the Ohio river. Chicago alone will probably furnish 50 athletes, according to' Everett C. Brown of the American Olympic committee. com-mittee. Nlnety-flYe per cent of tho American athletes, according to statistics of entries en-tries for tryouta, were enlisted men in either the army or navy during tho war and most of them saw service abroad. For the first time in hiBtory the army and navy will hold Olympic try-outB try-outB for their own men. There is a goverrimont appropriation for athletic training and preliminary tryoutB, but nono for sending army and navy men to Antwerp. "The Olympic committee is asking for voluntary subscriptions to send our team to tho Olympiad," said Brown. "From past performances, they're to win 200,000 worth of prizes and general gen-eral all-around world-wide fame at tho big games.' '