Tenth Olympics

From the portico of the formal, old-fashioned building in Berlin that used to be the assembly hall of the Prussian upper house, last week fluttered a flag embellished with five interlinking rings. It was the flag of the International Olympic Committee, the five rings symbolizing the brotherly accord, in sport, of five continents. Inside the former Herrenhaus met delegates from 45 nations to the Olympic Congress. They talked all week, making plans and taking cognizance of plans already carried out for the Tenth Olympic Games, to be held in Los Angeles in 1932.* Women's Events. Count Baillet-Latour, French delegate and President of the Congress, proposed that women be excluded from track, field and fencing events. Other delegates, mainly U. S. and German, rose in debate. The Count supported his proposal by reminding the Congress of the 800-metre event for women at Amsterdam in 1928, in which several girls collapsed. Gustavus Kirby, U. S. delegate, led the opposition. The French proposal, finally put to vote, was overwhelmingly defeated. In the Olympic games of 1932 women will run, fence and hurdle, swim, skate and ski. Stadia. At Amsterdam there was only one training field. At Los Angeles there will be 15. Seat facilities of the Los Angeles stadium have been increased from 76,000 to 105,000. The Olympic Auditorium is ready with 12,000 seats for the boxing, wrestling and weight-lifting events. The museum next the Coliseum will be used for the Olympic's fine arts exhibition, and a special arena has been built for fencing. An Olympic village with houses for competitors will be put up on the borders of town. The State of California has contributed $1,000,000 for expenses; private citizens have raised $1,000,000 which will not be made up to them by the gate receipts but will earn dividends as local advertising. Hockey. The U. S. did not have a hockey team in the last Olympic games. The difficulty of finding an amateur hockey team in the U. S. is that most amateurs get money out of playing. In Manhattan the A. A. U. unofficially accepted the job of developing a team for 1932. "Broken Time," The Argentine delegate bluntly proposed that it be deemed proper for athletes to be reimbursed for the time they spent away from their jobs. The Belgians were for compromise, but the British delegates used the word "sportsmanship"' so many times that the Argentine proposal was vetoed. Olympic athletes will be ruled out if they receive any compensation for loss of salary. Minimum expense for each visiting athlete: $400.

*Olympic Games of modern times: 1896, Athens; 1900, Paris; 1904, St. Louis; 1906, Athens; 1908, London; 1912, Stockholm; 1920, Antwerp; 1924, Paris; 1928, Amsterdam.

Olympic games of ancient times: abolished in 389 A. D. by Christian Emperor Theodosius after having survived nearly 12 centuries. Sport history states that the last Olympic games ended in a riot brought on by bitter dispute between the Greeks who were strictly amateurs and the professionalized Romans.

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