OLYPIC GAMES

Evening Star, Issue 19387, 22 October 1926, Page 13

OLYPIC GAMES

HARDSHIPS OF AMERICAN ATHLETES Some remarks on tlio hardships of Olympic athletes wore made recently ,v .0. MHcchan, in the Now York ' Horald-Tribuno.’ “ There seems to oe considerable advance gloom as to the chances of housing our Olympic athletes at the next Olympic Games, at Amsterdam, Holland, in a manner to which they have boon accustomed, they sent the team that took part m the Olympic Games at Antwerp over m an American transport, and there was considerable squawking from the tenderly-nurtured and sensitive athletes over the hardships,” he wrote. For some reason or other their complaints did not cause many to break into violent fits of sobbing. This trip was made shortly after the war, and it was remembered that 1,000,000 athletes of another type went across the ocean on this same and similar ships under circumstances much less comfortable. After looking over the setting for the training camp of Gertrude Itderle, who is to undertake the most difficult athletic feat of the year, I cannot find myself shuddering over the discomforts of the American Olympic team, which is to set sail for Amsterdam. If Gertrude Edcrlo can stand what she stood at Gap GrisNez, it is my notion that the weight throwers and strong men of the American Olympic team should save their tears of sympathy for .themselves. “The advance alarm over the possible treatment of the American Olympic team at Amsterdam looks like a premature criticism of Dutch hospitality. Why not wait? If the worst comes to the worst, the American Red Cross can send expeditions to tho relief of the delicate American athletes.”