Book/Printed Material International Olympic games. Copy 1

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    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
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    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 3 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. US L4v~*-v*c-. House of Representatives, COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL ARTS AND EXPOSITIONS, Washington, D. C, February 10, 1911, 11 o clock a. m. The committee met at 11 o clock...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 4 of Copy 1 Z INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. United States at its meeting held November 21, 1910. It is decided, so far as the United States are concerned, that the games shall be held in Cleveland....
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 5 of Copy 1 *0^ INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 3 xCN .NX* It is estimated that last year 30.000.000 people attended ball, games in this country alone. That shows the interest our country is taking. From the...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 6 of Copy 1 4 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. These games have been held once in the United States, in 1904, at St. Louis. In 1908 London had them. In 1912 Stockholm, Sweden^ will have them. The...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 7 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 5 to secure the games for this country but I think we have a splendid chance of getting them. The Chairman. You said the games were held in St....
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 8 of Copy 1 6 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. Mr. Xelsox. What you want of this committee is authorization Mr. Schneider. An authorization is all we are asking for. Mr. Nelson. What you want is finally the...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 9 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 7 Mr. Howland. The city of Cleveland has appointed an Olympic games commission to take care of the Cleveland end of this proposi- tion. It is to provide a...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 10 of Copy 1 8 INTERNATIONAL OLYAIPIC GAMES. in meeting all expenses incident to the games, outside of the ex- penses of people from foreign countries. Me. Howlaxd. I will next introduce to the committee Rev....
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 11 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 9 schools there are 24 districts and altogether there is a membership of 150,000 scholars in the association. It has been found that these scholars are benefited very much...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 12 of Copy 1 10 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. such a meeting has in view is comprehensive it does not simply mean physical development, but it means development along artistic lines. The old Greek understood well the...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 13 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 11 The pastime feature of it is worth consideration fostering out- door, healthful pastime; not necessarily making athletes of every- body. You know how our population turns out for...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 14 of Copy 1 12 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. so that we may have an opportunity to secure the favorable action of the Congress at this session. Mr. Howland. I will next introduce Mr. William Schlobohm. STATEMENT...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 15 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 13 For one race alone, the Marathon, it is estimated that 500,000 people lined up to see the contest. No admission fee could be charged to see the larger...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 16 of Copy 1 14 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. tion which controls all the amateur athletic sport- except those sports which of themselves are strong enough to take care of their particu- lar -port, and then they...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 17 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 15 I only want to say, as far as the association I represent is con- cerned, which comprises those four States, that we are heartily in favor of not...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 18 of Copy 1 16 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. When I got abroad I filled out the requested blank and, of course, told them exactly what I had done. They immediately said that I was a professional....
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 19 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. IT words, we have a certain set of medals. You can give cups. You can not give merchandise, even, in our athletics to-day, except in some rare cases, where...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 20 of Copy 1 18 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. active athletic bodies which are grouped into associations covering the entire territory. When the organization was first formed the territories were naturally large, there being only a few...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 21 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 19 The question has been asked, what have the foreign countries been doing in connection with the support of these Olympic games I can not answer that directly, or...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 22 of Copy 1 20 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. Lord Desborough, who personally footed the bill to the extent of $93,000. because of his having taken the initiative in bringing the games to London, and. seeing that...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 23 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 21 The Chairman. That was merely the deficit— that $93,000? Mr. Townes. That was not the deficit, but that was the portion of the deficit that Lord Desborough became...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 24 of Copy 1 22 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. The Chairman. I suppose that was his personal contribution? Mr. Langley. That was out of the funds already furnished the King. Mr. Nelson. Did you say that Germany...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 25 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 23 If the games are ever to be held in the United States again, to my mind there is no question but what aid will have to be had...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 26 of Copy 1 24 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. $1,500 with the amount of popular subscription, were able to make up a team so that they would have enough men for all events. If Cleveland will build...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 27 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 25 Educational Alliance Athletic Associa- tion, New York, N. Y. Emerald Athletic Club, Westchester, N. Y. Etna Club, Brooklyn, N. Y. Far Hills Athletic Club, Far Hills, N. J....
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 28 of Copy 1 26 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. Senior Boys Club St. Thomas Church, Mainaroneck. N. T. Seventy-first Regiment Athletic Asso- cation. New York, N. Y. Seventy-fourth Regiment Athletic As- !iation, Buffalo. N. Y. Sixty-fifth Regiment...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 29 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 27 Columbia Athletic Club, Cambridge. Mass. East Bostou Athletic Association, East Boston (Boston), Mass. Eighth Company C. A. C, M. V. M., Boston, Mass. Forest Hills Athletic Association, Bos-...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 30 of Copy 1 28 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. Playground Athletic League, Birming- ham, Ala. Royal Athletic, Club, New Orelans, La. Sacred Heart Usher Society, New Or- leans, La. Shreveport Athletic Association, Shreveport, La. Southern Athletic Club,...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 31 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 29 Pacific Association. Academic Athletic League of California. American Football Association. Auditorium Athletic Club. Bay Counties Athletic League. Belmont Military Academy. Barbarian Athletic Club. California Association Football League. California...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 32 of Copy 1 30 IXTERXATIOXAL OLYMPIC GAMES. There are 22.000 adult male persons who are registered amateur athletes, and about 400.000 members of public and parochial school athletic leagues affiliated with the Amateur Athletic Union....
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 33 of Copy 1 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES. 31 Greek Government did appropriate in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred thousand dollars to finance the games. Yours, very truly, James E. Sullivan. Secretary -Treasurer. [Extract, p....
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 34 of Copy 1 LIBRARY OF CONGI 2 DrrKR-N-AUOXAX, OLYMPIC GAMES. A a a JAfl 020 108 5 ~hich the games ere held. Page 1- under head of exhibits division. Exhibit J shows a further expenditure...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 35 of Copy 1 CrV 7X1^
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911
  • Image 36 of Copy 1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS III 020 108 5S0 9 Hollinger Corp. pH8.5
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
    • Date: 1911