Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1912 — NOW SEEK YANKEE COACHES [ARTICLE]

NOW SEEK YANKEE COACHES

Germans Start Movement to Bring Athletes Up to Point for Competing With Americans. Germany is guarding against being found in a state of unpreparedness when the next Olympic games are held in Berlin in 1918. No more will the youth of the Fatherland confine itself to sports such as fencing, weight lifting and gymnastics. A movement has been started to bring the German young men up to a point where they will be able to compete with the best athletes the United States can furnish. , A systematic hunt is being made for two trainers who combine all the good qualities, of Mike Murphy, Ernie Hjertherg and Lawson Robertson. It is, of course, impossible to find such men. but the Germans are determined to have none but the best, and they are willing to pay the price. Before the United, States athletes lfeft the continent, several of the stars and one of the Olympic team received offers to take charge of the German candidates for the next Olympic team. While none cared to accept, however, it is only, a matter of a few months before this country will be minus a pair of its most prominent trainers and they will be found in various parts of Germany looking for promising material with which to form a team for 1916. The beautiful stadium which is now being built outside of Berlin will be opened next year in the presence of the kaiser and King George V. of England, together with all the royalty of the German empire. Athletic and gymnastic events will be held covering a period of three weeks. _ Already more thin 25,000 men and women have signed applications for permission to take part in the opening ceremonies. General von Bredow, of Harzburg, will at that time present to the kaiser a book, the title of which is “Olympic Games and German Sport,” to which all the noted sporting writers of Germany have contributed articles on sporting topics.’ The opening of the stadium will he part of the celebration in honor of the kaiser’s twenty-fifth anniversary and every effort is being made to develop a strong enough teaA to show the war lord that Germans are not content to stay behind other countries in athletics.