Trials for Olympic Games on June 6

According to present plans, the trials for the American team at the Olympic Games will be held at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, on June 6, a week later than the date of the Intercollegiate games. Trials will extend over a wide variety of events, such as swimming, distance and obstacle running, jumping and vaulting, weight throwing, and sprints and dashes. About 50 men will be taken to England with Mike Murphy, of Yale, as trainer.

There has been considerable agitation of late on the part of many of the colleges to have the intercollegiate meet of May 29 and 30 serve as the qualifying games for the Eastern college athletes. The college men are trained to do their best in this meet and there is great danger of their being stale a week later, thus depriving the American team of some of their best men and lessening materially their chances for success. Since the larger part of the team is usually composed of college athletes, there is reason to suppose that this proposed change will be seriously considered by the committee.

The authorities at Yale showed their sympathy with the American Olympic Committee and their desire to make American representation at the Games a pronounced success by a contribution of $500 to the Committee to be used in defraying the expenses of the team. The I. C. A. A. A. A. subscribed $1000 on February 29, and at present the chances of financing the trip successfully seem excellent.