Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-23
NO INT ERNAT|ORAL SPORTS
SWEDISH TEAM WILL NOT
COME TO THIS COUNTRY
ihtersrctionni Contests Will Re Hest
Substitntc-icunis, Polo nuL
flowing In IimelISht

NEW YORK. April 22.--With tn. re :
. i"sai or the swedish athletic authori
| ties 10 send track and field team to
'hiS country during the coming sum
iher. the last chance for international
sport competition In 1916 has faded
AS result followers of various lines
OF amateur sport are turning TO inter-
sectional contests as the next best sub
Stltht". ana there appears 10 III; cyral
iGnt prospects in this direction. For
'niE reason the performances OF indi-
Niuual ana grouped athletes ara hair q,
watched with far more than iis,,,i ~
tercSt: ThiS is particularly true or pa
,.Hc 'otSt contestants, for IL is from
stis scctioi that the largest invading
season. '"' '"is
california will send it's stax tennis
n!hEcis ON another tour of the Middle
No ana raSti will he represented in
ne inter circuit polo tournament and
me leading colleges Of the for .o, 81
" W,t! emt"r track team. tennis teams
"n con- vrtN.S IN the principal Eastern
r1i!'!pctttiohs thiS spring ana summer
The first tcst Will come when St.nfnri
: nmd possibly California. compete I'm the
he hcIJ III 'n'e championship games TO
Sc'dium ~ Cambridge Mass on Mnv
bcr ~ 80; stanford has already stated
fo,.,; n'enti"i Of entering IA team. cali
.'a' Niich holds membership In Tho
!, - ~ ~ y. a. did no; connate IN
20, ana must send athletes to tho
S.',I; lh,s year IN oidcr To retain heI
Standing under the Nv o-ycar rule
IN inc recent dual meet hctwc.u
49, Two varsity track teams a, stan
eIcwc, INC ''ttrr combination captured
=, 1911 out or fourteen frSts but ,bo
,alhornia contingent made :, go
%,nusEic Tor tn" point honors by t1Iiing
mt,eS second" and thirds. The Ierforme
"hceS wcr" not as a rule. however entm
Gently startling 10 warrant tho Laiint
'ncir either team could win frs, nInca
-. me ne. coming intercolleGiatcs, when
s,.Ivnri i.'S o. talent at Cornell. Penn
SIa.ahia Harvard Princeton. penn
considered. ''Scs ~
a,' o92mparins the performances ut this
lcGiatcs held At The Irnivo
pennsylvania field last June. il is sccn
on"t 'wo are better and three arc
~ "A me o,hGr eight on the l. c.
5,ecords do not approach tho time or
p TranRIin r mahe by the winners Mt
Ssson and Coughey. Stanford has so' T.
quartet of athletes who appcar can.
; hse OF holding their own against the
this spring. The meet will in ali prob
aniiity be won, however by the team
which places the greatest number of
men IN second. third and fourth places
ahi owing TO the expense Of bringing
a large squad from the Pacific Coast
10 Cambridge, the chances Of stanford
or California winning Is reduced to n
minimum.
The. possibility Of victory for either
Washington or Stanford in the inter
CoiicSiatc regatta ~ I'ouShkccpsic on
.lune Il is considered far greater. since
stanford gave splendid exhibition
OF rowing skill and endurance in win
ming second place III the four-milc race
a year ago Five OF the eight veterans
OF that race arc again III the shell
Although defeated by WaYhington re-
rowing authorities believe that either
or both crews have n fine chance OF
iinisiin;; well up among the leaders, If
the trip TO tho Hudson is made as
prosopcd.
There is also ~ chance that a Pacific
Coast varsity football team may be
seen in an intcrsectional game against
one more Eastern clcvcuS, either
This fall or in 1917 \ group Of New
York football men arc cndcavoring TO
arrange for such q game. and stand
ready to finance the trip in order to
bring the eleven Of CALIFORNIA. wash
ington or Washington Aggics. to New
York for q game with ono of the lead
ing clcvcns Of the East, IL the consent
Of tho Western university faculties can
he secured