The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-23
FIFTEEN INNINGS NECESSARY
TO DECIDE SECOND CONTEST
American SoccerP1ayerS
viii InDade Scandinavia
Three Games Will Be Played at
Stockholm, One at Christian
ia and One at GOthenbOTg.

NEW YORK, July 22.-Ihe sole
foreign athletic invasion of Europe
this year by an American team. will
get under way next Wednesday,
July &c, when the United States SOC
Ger football squad sails from this city
for a series OF games to be played
throughout Scandinavia during Au-
gust and September. The team will
include the strongest squad of SOC
Ger players that could be gathered in
the United States to represent this
country in competition in the Scandi-
navian countries. The tour will be
under the auspices of the Swedish Ma
tional Gymnastic and Sporting Asso-
citation, the controlling body of SOC
Ger in America. and Of the Federation
Internationale de Football Associa-
ton.
Five games have been scheduled
definitely, and a number OF Others
tentatively arranged. A series OF
contests with the best teams OF the
national and international games
cess of the American athletes in their
play with the champion elevens of
Norway and Sweden. The tour is not
intended for financial gain, the COM
petition being purely amateur The
Scandinavian fOotballers are noted
for their Drawn. To Offset this, the
National and international Games
committee of U. S. +. a. has con-
struCted picked team whose
strongest point is speed. The men
selected to make the trip already are
in training for their contests abroad,
and their conditioning will continue
on shipboard under the supervision
of manager Thomas w. Cahill and
Trainer Harry A. Davenport, of New
ark. n. ].
Baseball, rope skipping and Ska
side" soccer will be relied upon to
bring out the utmost speed in the all
star aggregation. There will be con-
siderable opportunity for training
after their arrival in Scandinavia.
The squad will 20 direct to Stockholm
from Christiania, where Ernie Hjert-
berg, the Swedish Olympic athletic in
structor and trainer will meet the
American. Three games will be
played in Stockholm, the first on Au-
gust Is, one in Christiania, and one
in Gothenborg, under present ar
rangements. The crown prince Of
Sweden has promised to attend one
of the games and banquets to the
visiting football stars.
The players who will make the
trip, and the teams with which they
played during the American season
of 1876, are as follows:
James Ford, outside right, Jersey A.
c., Jersey City, N. j.
Charles Ellis, inside right, BROOK
lyn-Celtics, Brooklyn, N. y.
John ]. Heminsley, center forward
Scottish-American F. c., Newark. n. j..
Matt B. Diederichsen, inside left, In
nisfails, St. Louis, Mo.
Harry Cooper, outside left, Contin9n-
tai F. c., New York City.
Thomas Murray, right half back,
Bethlehem Steel Co, F. o., Bethle-
Neil G. Clarke, center halfback,
Bethlehem Steel Co., f C., Bethlehem
Pa.
+. c.. Philadelphia, Pa.
James NJ. Robertson, right full back
Workers, F. c., Yonkers, y. Y.
C. H. Spalding, left full back Dlss-
ton A. A., Philadelphia, Pa.
George Tintle, goal keeper, Brooklyn
Celtics, Brooklyn, " Y.
Reserves: Clarence Smith, general
utility Qualified for any position
Babcock and Wilcox F. c., Bayonne'
\. ]. ,,,.,,,, ~ mr.
either inside position, Wanderers f.
c., Philadelphia, Pa
Thomas swords, center forward (any
half back or forward, Fall River
Royers. F. c., Fall River, Mass.
All but two or the squad are native
horn players; the exception being right
half back Murray and center half BACK
Clarke.
The schedule as arranged at pres
ont includes the following games:
August Is, VS.. All-Stockholm at
August IS, VS.. All-Stockholm at
Stockholm.
August %, VS.. All-sweden at Stock
Aus August 25, VS.. Gothenborg at Gothen-
~ August Is, VS.. All-Christiania at
Christiania.