Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19
SWEDES WILL MAKE
 AMERICAN ATHLETES GO
If Two Countries Meet In Interna-
 tional Track Meet.

If the proposed invasion of a Swed- | ish athletic team for a series of inter- | national track and field meets eventu- | ates, as appears likely, the contests in | this country will in all probability be | held under the rules of the Interna- | tional Amateur Athletic Federation. | At the initial meeting of this body | held at Lyon, France, June 10-12, 1914, | both Sweden and the United States | athletic associations were prominent in | the formation of the Federation and | the drawing up of the rules. One of | the subjects given much consideration | was the standardizing of athletics in l all parts of the world and the estab- l fishing of a standard set of events and | record tables.
 At that meeting to which the late James E. Sullivan was the leading American delegate, the list of recog- a tentative program for the 1916 Olym- pie games promulgated. All the run ming events were placed under the metric system of measurement and until the war caused a halt in the ath- letic competition all the European countries conducted their annual championships, held at Galfe, August with these rules. At the Swedish chamapionshipsc, held at Gaife. August 29, 1915, twenty-one events were sched- uled, every one of which was conduct ed under the I. A A. r. rules For this reason an accurate event comparison of the work Of the Swedish and American winners last season is very difficult since tr involves recourse to mathematics and much fig urlnS to ascertain the appTOXiIn lte time of hundred yard runner as com pared to the winner of a hundred met CT sprint. Since a meter is 2.37 inches more than one yard the I. A. A. i, or metrict system sprinter runs 100 1-12 1 yards against 100 yards flat of the american dash athlete. Ernie Hjert- i In~ 1s-l, H1 who is indirectly responsible for the proposed international meets was able | to give a list of his best entrants in the various events but declined to at tempt to figure out their time or abil- | ity under the American standards | For the sprints Sweden has Smed- | mark and Ottander, both of whom are | good for eleven seconds in the hundred meters. This is but one-e efth of a seo>- | ond slowed than Craig's time when | the American won a similar event in l the Olympic games at Stockholm in l 1912. Scandal can do 50, 4-5 seconds
 in the 400 meter and Melen 15S in the 500. Zander is food for 151O in the 5,OOO and Ohman a2,20 in the 10000 metre races. Zerling has won the no
 meter high hurdle race in Is 3-5 sec Onds.
 In the field events sjorberg has clear | ed feet, inches in the high jump;
 Amberg 3 feet, f inches in the broad
 jump, and Sahlin 48 feet in the hop,
 step and jump. Gille Is good for i2
 feet, inches in the pole vault; Nils
 son 47 feet, inches in the shot put;
 Lind 165 feet for the 16-pound ham
 mer and Stronberg 35 feet with the
 56-pound weight
 | some of these marks compare fav-
 orably with the records made by l Olympic winners four years ago and
 if the Swedish athletes are called up- on to meet district teams only in their | coming games in America the invading
 athletes will have an excellent chance
 or winning fair share of the events
 York, Chicago and Pittsburg and | other cities. Those who know Hiert- berg will realize that the former
 American middle distance champion
 has taken this into account and that
 he would not bring a team of his athletic pupils to this country unless
 he was assured that they would make | an excellent showing.
 Three A. A. U. boxing champions
 sail this week for Denmark where
 they will compete in the information
 al glove tournament in March. The
 trio consists of John Karpinski. of the
 Clevelnd, O., Athletic Club; William
 Spengler of the Union Settlement New
 York. and John MaIoney, of the PhiiY
 adelphia St. Rita Catholic Church. Spengler is a light heavyweight; Kar-
 p1nsh is a lightweight and Maloney a
 featherweight.
 international tournament at Copen-
 hagen, and special matches at Chris | tlan1 nd Stockholm. In all these ex-
 h1bltion or tournament bouts the
 American boxers will spar three
 rounds of three minutes each with a
 fourth in case the judges cannot de- | eide the winner at the end of the nine
 minutes of boxing. The decision will
 be made by two judges stationed at
 the ringside and in case they disagree
 the referee can cast the deciding vote