HOUSEBOAT FROM THE STICKS

Foreseeing, as it politely phrases it, "inadequate housing facilities" for the mystery athletes who will next year carry the insignia of the United States Olympic team over the dikes and into Holland, the American Olympic Committee has in its wisdom unbounded seen fit to make arrangements for its cohorts to spend their leisure hours on the good ship which will bear them from these shores.

The move is by no means novel, having been successfully taken at the games held in 1912, and it cannot be denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent in Paris in the summer of 1924 must indeed have been a revelation to the members of the troupe and according to all reports were that and more to the unfortunate chaperones of the party.

In spite of the fact that after an ocean voyage there might be those among the participants who would be but too glad to forsake the swaying decks of the good ship for the cobbled streets of Amsterdam the powers that be appear to consider even the slightly unpleasant associations of the vessel more to be sought than the unquestionably more violent swayings of the Dutch pavements.