Show British Olympic Fund of Meets Opposition London Aug UJ 23 The The great Olympic Olympic pic pie fund of Is 15 not nol rolling up UI as fast as tho time promoters expected An 1 appeal for this amount to provide adequately ade ado for lor the British team at the theOl Ol Olympic games aames in Berlin in 1916 1016 was wasIs Is issued August 17 It was signed ned by byEarl byEarl byEarl Earl Grey Gre Lord LOIr Roberts the time Duke of oC Westminster and many ninny prominent men mell but only 2 has been subscribed In lii the time first t week Of or this was wan subscribed by Lord b by the Duke of Westminster while Sir Thomas LIpton and anti II II n. G. G each contributed 00 The Tile project Has met strong tion loll However Lord name annie which headed tho appeal Is usually the most potent Influence an any patriotic cause can have havo Most lost of tho the critIcisms criticisms criticisms crit crit- arc avo ml o on the time ground round that wholesale subsidizing o of athletes would woul foster professionalism and be bo contrary to the wholesome traditions of o British sport Some ome of or the sharpest thru thrusts ts have reference to attempted Americanization Ameri merl of the tho sport Some Sonic of the critics a assert lert that more enga engage e In sports than nn any other people but tho they do so for tOl recreation and not with the solo sole object object object ob ob- ob- ob of winning contests The They prof profess pro pro- f fess s to believe bellevo the Arn American spirit Is to win b by nn any means and nd that American athletes care more for lol prizes and arid medals than tItan sport The Tile Duke of or Westminster hopes hope tho the fund will not be spent in l de developing a afew afew few tew remarkable athletes but In iii or organizing organizing organizing or- or general athletic gatherings and he utters a warning a against AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican specialization Time The rh Saturday Review ne predicts that the money will be raised althou although h the paper adds if It it were asked for tor anything any any- anything thin thing Important to the nation I It would not be to forthcoming If ir c 4 14 celebrated celebrate monument monument ment meat In Salisbury Plain were iero offered to the time public to save O Us its being bought b by hi a Yankee for tor would the tIm British h public raise It neI asks 9 time the pa pa- adds that the familiar familial per It type of or amateur amat who IK is really a professional profession al Ill is 15 an offense to all aU gentlemen an and andall all ill snort and declares I if wo we cannot win Will In iii this ridiculous business without adopting the ways way Of ot the thc professional It is Infinitely better betterto to lose loee as gentlemen |