Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1914 — WORLD'S COUNCIL OF SPORTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORLD'S COUNCIL OF SPORTS

New Organization Expected to Standardize All Things in Connection With Olympic Games. What will eventually become tho most powerful athletic body In the world Is the new International Athletic federation, organized in Berlin recently by more than a score of the world’s competing nations. While It has no official connection with the International Olympic council it promises to be more important and powerful even than that body. The findings of the new body are not binding upon the International Olympic council. They are merely suggestions to that organization, but they are so sensible and represent so clearly the practical Bense of the entire world that unless grave faults are found in their program the Olympic council will almost certainly accept them. What the new federation will certainly accomplish is the standardization of all things connected with the Olympic games. It will bring about a -standard list of events to be the same from year to year, the uniform definition of an amateur and uniform rules of competition. These are three things which America has been striving to obtain for a good many years. The findings will be presented to the In-

ternational council at its next meeting and most of them will in all probability be adopted. —That America is now the teacher of the athletic world was demonstrated more than once at this convention. James E. Sullivan, who has been America’s commissioner to the Olympiads, was recognized as the world’s leading authority. He was honored with the task of compiling a set of world and Olympic records.

James E. Sullivan.