Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-27
SWEDISH INVASION FOR CONTESTS 0N
 TRACK AND FIELD
International Amateur Fedora ton Likely to Dictate Rul- ings; Sweden Has Wonder fui List of Performers.

NEW YORK, Feb 26-If the propos' ed invasion of a Swedish athletic team
 for a series of international track and | field meets eventuates as appears like | ly. the contests in this country will in
 all probability be held under the rules
 of the International Amateur Athletic Federation. At the initial meeting
 of this body held at Lyons, France,
 June 1912, 1914, both Sweden and the United States athletic associations
 were prominent in the formation of
 the Federatio nand the drawing up of
 the rules. One of the subjects given
 much consideration was the standard
 izing of athletics in all parts of the
 world and the establishing of stand ard 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- niZed worlds records was prepared and a tentative program for the 1916 Olympic Games promulgated. All the running events fere placed under the metric system of measurement and un- til the war caused a halt in athletic competition all the European coun- tries conducted their annual cham rionship meets in accordance with these rules. At the Swedish campion- ships, held at Gafle, August 29, 1915, twenty-one events were scheduled, everyone of which were conducted un- der the l. A. A. F. rules.
 For this reason an accurate event by-eyent comparison of the work of the Swedish and American, winners last season is very difficult since it involves recourse to mathematics and much figuring, to ascertain their ap- proximate time of hundred yard runner as compared to the winner of a hundred meter sprint Since me ter is S.v7 inches more than one yard the l. A. A. F. or metric system sprin- ter runs 1G9 1-12 yards against the 100 yards flat of the American dash ath- lete. Ernie Hjertberg, the Swedish Olympic trainer, who is indirectly re- spon sible for the proposed interna tional meets, was able to give list Of his best entrants in the various events but declined to attempt to fig ure out their time or ability under the American standards.
 For the sprints Sweden has Smed mark and Ottander, both Of whom are good for eleven seconds in the hun dred metres. This is but oDe-ffth Of a second slower than Craig's time when the American won a similar event in the Olympic games at Stock holm in 1912. Scandell can do 50 4-5 seconds in the 400 meter and Melen 1.5S in the 800 ander is good for 15.1O in the 5,GOO and ohman S2.S0 in the 10000 metre races. Zerling has won Nle 11O meter high hurdle race in b S-5 seconds.
 In the field events Sjoberg has cleared feet 2 inches in the high jump; Aberg 2S feet. inches in the broad jump, and Sahlin 4S feet in the hop. step and jump. Gille is good for 12 feet, inches in the pole vault; Nilsson 4 feet, , inches in the shot put; Lind 165 feet for the 16-pound hammer and Stromberg 35 feet with 56-pound weight.
 Some of these marks compare fa vOrably with the records made by Olympic winners four years ago and if the Swedish athletes are called upon to meet district teams only in their coming games in Aemrica the in vadi7g Athletes have an excellent chance of winning a fair share of the events at the proposed competitions in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and other cities. Those who know Hjert- berg will realize that the former American middle distance champion has tagen this into account and that he would not bring a team of his ath- letic pupils to thi scountry unless he was assured that they would make an excellent showing.
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