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Show FRANCE PLANS GREATJTADHW Successful Staging of Next Olympic Games Almost Assured NEW YORK. Jan. 1 S (By the Associated As-sociated Press) The successful staging stag-ing of the next Olympic games In Paris i Bald bv members of tho American committee here to be assured by tho reappointment, of Gaston yida as mln-Ister mln-Ister if sports In the new Poincaro cabinet. LONGEST TRf K Reports fri ni l arlw Indicate that the new est.uhum 'will be the largest and best ecjulpped, reeted to date. Ac orulng to tentative plans available avail-able In this country, the track for the 1924 International meet will measure spprpxlmatels f.oo met-n to the lap. Both strnisTBtways and each rur.' .vim measure about 12 j meters or a trifle more than 130 yards, giving the track l total distance of approximately 52' yards. This will bo tho largest track over constructed for the Olympic :amfs and larger than any of th fi-rnous fi-rnous college athletic tracks. If the I'arls course Is completed in time to1 settle properlv it appears certain that a number of new world's running rec- ords will be established. PRIC i s MJiPr LOW Fronts Rclchel. aecret;irj- of the 'French Olympic committee, states that there will bo days when the atte ndance 'is expected to reach the surprising total to-tal of from 100. 0U0 to lDO.ooo speeta- tors. French admiaalons to sport events, however, shows that widely graduating charges will prevail, providing for cents or standing room at a nominal linrg of as low as a franc and ranging rang-ing upwards oo |