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Show LIMITED OLYMPICS URGED BY BRITISH Shorter and Speedier Program Pro-gram Is Favored for Games in 1928. Great Britain intends to take the lead in advocating a shorter and speedier Olympic program at the 1928 games which will be held in Amsterdam, Amster-dam, Holland. The first steps tojbrlug this about are likely to be taken when the International Olympic committee, the National Olympic committees and the International associations, which govern the sport In each country, send representatives to Ue meeting at Prague In May. That there is a general feeling the games should be shortened and that certain sports should be eliminated from the program is a belief held ! strongly by British athletic authorities. One plan to eliminate some of the sports which were included at Paris, and which caused the games to be extended ex-tended and to contain many events that were little appreciated, is to have countries vote on what sports may be admitted, and no event will be included which has not the vote of at least six interested countries. How far this plan wili get remains to be seen, the British authorities admit. Preliminary heats and preliminaries leading up to finals in events that heretofore here-tofore have not been classified us major ones may be curtailed or entirely eliminated elimi-nated where the sport itself is not deleted, de-leted, according to another plan which is being advocated in Europe. Looking eight years ahead, England is not certain cer-tain that it will be able to send a very large team to the Olympic games to be staged at Los Angeles in 193:!. The cost and the Inability of members of 1 lie English team to snare the time necessary to make such a trip are factors fac-tors which at present are causing grave doubt in England on this point. However. England will send as large a team as it possibly can, pointing out that nothing less Is due America, which has sent teams to every Olympic games and has sent teams that were truly representative. Other European countries are considering the same point, and unless the intervening years improve conditions it may be that Europe's Eu-rope's representatives at Los Angeles will be considerably less than at Paris or which will conipcte at Amsterdam in lOHS. |
