The sun., 1918-12-22
HJERTBERG, SWEDE
TRAINER, DEPOSED
Assistant Replaces Man Who
Made Champions Galore
Here and Abroad.
MAY RETURN TO AMERICA
Family Ties May Induce Him
to Seek New Position in
This Country.
ny GEORGE n. UNDERWOOD.

ny GEORGE n. UNDERWOOD.
Ernie Hjertberg. once track and field
trainer OF the New York A. c.. Irish
American A. c., Columbia University
and various National Guard regiments
here. who has been employed as Swedish
Olympic coach since 1911, no longer
guides the Swedish athletic destinies.
Word was received here from Stockholm
yesterday that the famous trainer had
been succeeded by Carl Silverstrand, one
OF his assistants
Little is known In this country OF Sill
verstrand other than he competed for
Sweden in the Olympic games at Stock
holm in 1918, but failed to get his name
into the SUMMARIZE Silverstrand was
one OF the assistants in charge of one OF
the athletic districts into which under the
Hjertberg system Sweden was divided.
or recent years Hjertberg has given
much OF his time to mercantile enter
prises outside OF his official government
tai training position. lie was the agent
In Sweden of many American goods.
Though of Swedish birth and blood
Hjertberg in some circles was consld-
cred an outsider and that, coupled with
his devotion OF so much time to private
business enterprises. is said to be the
real reason IoE tlle IeAusdi " iSHe" mo
contract.
FinaaAaIIy We'll Fixed.
For six years Hjertberg has been
drawing n salary OF $500 from the
Swedish Government as athletic trainer.
Silverstrand signed a contract for a
much smaller amount. Hjertberg Is well
fixed financially. He is undecided
whether TO remain in Sweden and look
after the business interests he has built
up there or to return to America and
take up one OF the coaching positions
that no doubt will be offered him. Fam
lily influences may cause him to choose
the latter course.
Mrs. Hjertberg, who comes from a
Maine family, Americans from Revolu-
tionary days, and his two sons and
daughter, who were educated in Brook
lyn schools, are all keenly DESTROYS to
return to their native land.
Next to the late Mike Murphy Hjert-
bergAprobably Is the best known athletic
coach in the world with the exception
OF Lawson Robertson of Pennsylvania,
Harry Hillman OF Dartmouth and Jack
Moakley of Cornell, he is without peer
as a developer and conditioner OF ath-
letes.
1t was Hjertberg who took charge Of
the lamentably small track team of the
Irish American A. G in 1904, and
quickly developed an aggregation that
humbled the New York A. G. and made
the Winged Fist famous throughout the
athletic world. Later Hjertberg went
over to the New York a. c. and achieved
almost as pronounced success. Many of
Americas famous athletes from 1903 to
1911 were brought out by Htertberg and
developed into world famous champions.
A Galaxy of Champions.
Hjertberg trained athletes won scores
or American championships and captured
many honors in the Olympic Games at
Athens in 1906 and in London in 1908.
Among the American champions and
record holders handled by Hjertberg
were:
Martin Sheridan. Melvin Sheppard,
John Flanagan. Matt McGrath, Pat Nc
Donald, George Bonhag, John Daily, John
Joyce, Lawson Robertson, Harvey Cohn,
Bill Horr, RUDE Young, Harry Porter,
Tom Collins, Bobby Cloughen. Jimmy
Archer, Jim Crowley. Johnny Hayes,
Mike Ryan, Jack Eller, Claude Allen,
Smye Northridge. Dan Ahearne, Joe
Bromiow, Dan Frank. Pat Walsh, Billy
Edwards, Abel Kiviat, "Yank" Robbins,
Billy Heating, Jim Rosenberger, Gwin
Henry, Fred Rodgers, j p Sullivan, Joe
Ballard, JACK monument, Harry GiSSing,
Frank Casteman Meyer Prlnstein. f. T.
Cooke, Jr., Lee Talbot and Con Walsh
All of those men either won American
or Olympic championships or held
worlds records. During the height Of
the professional Marathon craze HJert-
berg trained and handled Gusta Lung
stfom and Thure Johannsen, the two
Swedish long distance runners who ran
many races here. Among the Swedish
athletes developed and trained by
HJertberg since he went there in 1911
are:
His Swedish Brood.
Bohlln, Snedmark. lander. Ahlgren,
Zerllng. Norlng. Frederkshof, Kuller-
strand, Aberg. Moller MalmsteIn. Lind,
Stromberg, Hackner, Zauhagen, Nilsson
and ITlrlcman. All OF these are holders
OF Swedls.' recon u The present Swed-
ish champions dcv lopel and trained by
Hjertberg are Holstrom. Bjork. Melen.
zander, Linderholm, Levin, Malm,
Frederikshof, Kullerstrand. Harleman,
Enhornng, Jansson. zallhagen, Hack
ner and OLSON.
HJertberg himself was famous ath-
lste in his amateur days. He won the
American amateur three milo champion
ship in 1896 and captured the national
steeplechase championship In 1891 and
again in 1892.