The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-01
YANKEE ATHLETES
TO TOUR SWEDEN
Meredith Accepts Invitation
-Loomis, Simpson and MUIR
ray Asked to Make Trip.
~ GEORGE n. UNDERWOOD.

ny GEOhGE H. ONDEh WouD.
Following close upon the heels OF the
announcement that an American team OF n
combined soccer football and baseball 3
players would tour Sweden next summer &
comes the announcement that there will
be an athletic invasion OF Scandinavia
as we'll Several prominent American
athletes, including the great and only
Ted Meredith, who already has accepted
the invitation. will leave for Stockholm,
in June. Others who have been invited
are Lieut.. Bob Simpson, now stationed at
the Preside. San Francisco. with the ,
Torty-fourth Infantry; Joe Loomis OF
the Chicago A. A. and Lieut.. Fred Muir
ray OF the New York A. G. 3
Meredith, Simpson. Loomis, Lieut..
Fred Murray, then of the Leland Stan
ford University. but now Of tho New =,
York A. c., and Andy Ward of the Chi
cago A. A. comprised the American ath-,
letic team that toured Sweden in the fall ?
OF 1916. They competed at meets held Z
in Stockholm, Christlania. Upsala. Malmo =
and Gothenburg. rolling up a total OF 272
points against the pick of the Swedish
athletes. winning 81 hrsts, FL seconds
and 90 thirds.
Meredith as vet is the only one Of the
four invited athletes who has accepted
.
Ernest ViberE. representative of the.
Swedish athletic association here. a ten
! tative acceptance. He will go II he Is
mustered out of service or obtains
three months furlough, which would per-
nit him to make the trip. Viberg has
written Loomis, but has not yet received
reply from the versatile Chicago ath-
lete. Ernest has been unable to get IN
touch with Lieut. Murray. who only re-
L.A aNtI
went directly to California. Fred will
return to New York early in April
Viberg was authorized only to ex
tend the invitation to the four men
mentioned. At least two more Yankee
track stars will he asked TO go. Ernie
Hjertberg. the official Swedish trainer.
will decide upon the other men to whom
Invitations Will be extended.
Capt. Meredith. who recently was
mustered out OF service and entered
business in Philadelphia. largely was
induced to accept the Swedish athletic
invita- ton because he will be able to mix
business with pleasure in Sweden. He
can represent his firm in some trade
deals there while engaging in athletics.
To a friend recently Meredith con e
fided that he hoped to get at least one
new worlds record while In Sweden.
He thinks the track in the Stockholm
! StAOlUm one or tne IdSteSL IN tHe WOTltl
and says an athlete greatly is aided
by the delightfulness of the climate In
Sweden during the summer months. His
great showing in the recent Millrose 500
has given Ted world of confidence.
Trainer Lawson Robertson of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. who got Mere
dith in shape for the Mlllrose 900, yes
terday said
Ted is stronger now than he was
when as a mere boy he smashed the
worlds half mile and 500 meter records
at Stockholm in 1912 and when he sent
the quarter mile figures tumbling at
! Cambridge in 1916 On the Stockholm
track l believe him capable of hanging
up new records at all distances from 400
to 700 YARDS
Meredith Will sail with the soccer and
baseball players In June. One or two o.
' the other Yankee athletes may accom-
pany him, though 1t is not expected
| they will leave till July. as the athletic
= programme being arranged for them IN
Sweden does not call for track competi-
ton until mid-July and August.