New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
U. S. Champions
At Soccer Sail
On Wednesday
Seventeen Players and Four
Officials Are to Make an
Extensive Tour

'pioHs OF the United States and
v1ctors over every Canadian club o,
picked team that has presented itself
% GATE, the Bethlehem Steel Soccer
Football Club will sail from New yorI,
Wednesday afternoon for a series Of g
dozen games in Scandinavia, following
which the team may 60 direct to Brazil
-cr slx-game series, in which they
may meet tho champions of South
America.
The Bethlehem team is reinforced bv
some recent additions, which include
Stars Oh paterson Football Club, run
nperEs;-up for the 191S-'19 title; the
ROBINS Dry Dock eleven, Of BROOKLYN,
and Merchants Shipbuilding Football
Club, of Hartman, Penn.
Since the first announcement some
changes have been made in the per
sonnet OF the party that Will make the
trip, under the direction Of Thomas w.
Cahill, Of New York, honorary secre-
tary of the United States Football AS
soclation, who took the first American
lnternatIonal soccer team abroad, in
1915 The men who will depart for
Gotnenburg Wednesday aboard the
swedish American Line steamer Stock
holm are:
NJ Goal keepersmGeorge J. Tintle Harrison,
Penn
Fullbacls-James NJ. Robertson. New
York Samuel S. Fletcher. John Mop. Fer
lchcm.
Halfbacks-Albert Blakey, Philadelphia ::
frederick W. Pepper, James Campbell and
Ih9 on q; Murray, all Of Bethlehem; John
.. HemInsley, Newark, N. J.
Forwards-David R. Brown. Kearny N
D.; Harry Jay Leo Ratican, Of Bethlehem
former star Of the st. Louis Professional
nag league; William Forrest George McKelvey
Ihomas Cochran Turner Fleming, Bethe-
hcm' Archie Stark. Paterson, n. J.
Sheridan tho Trainer
William Sheridan, manager Of atb-
letics for the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany and former Scotch amateur
wrestling champion and athletic direc-
tor at Lehgh University, will accom-
pany the team as trainer. He will
have an expert masseur in Sune A.
Stearn. procured from the Stockholm
Club, New Dorp, S. L., for the trip, and
Ernest j. Vibcrg, Of New York CITY.
Will serve as interpreter, traffic man
ager and correspondent With the team.
The players will undergo intensive
training aboard the Stockholm, where
they will have first cabin accommoda-
tions, and after week or ten days ct
Hindas, a mountain resort, where the
team, the first game will be played in
the Stockholm Olympic Stadium on
August 10.
Five games will be played in the
Swedish capital other games in
Sweden will be at Malmo and Gothen-
burg. The All-Finland team will be
played at Helsingfors and Denmark's
national eleven at Copenhagen. AL
though not definitely scheduled as yet
games in Norway probably will be
played at Bergen and Christiania.
Upon completion of the schedule in
Scandinavia the team is expected to go
to an English port for connections with
a vessel bound for Rio de Janeiro. In
Brazil they will play six games under
the auspices Of the Brazilian Fedora
ton of Sports. The details of arrange
ments for this series now are being
worked out, first negotiations having
been carried on through United States
Ambassador Morgan at Rio.
One of the principal opponents Of
the North American champions in
South America will be the Flumenese
Football Club of Rio, which has beaten
a number of the crack Scotch and
English teams and recently won the
championship of South America in a
series in which Argentina, Uruguay
and Chile entered strong teams.
Return in Winter
The start from Scandinavia prob
ably will not be made before the mid
die of September, and it will be fully
six weeks later when the champions
return to the United States to take
up the fight in defence of the National
Challenge Cup. According to the teA-
tatlye schedule, games will be played
II Brazil at Rio, at Sac Paulo and
Santos.
Among the seventeen players to
make the. trip there are a stuff icient
number of capable baseball players to
scmi-pro mines of the East
Ratican is brilliant indeldcr
Brown is frst-string pitcher for tho
ssey semi-pr,oo aggregation, and George
iilntle, goalle, who guarded the net
for the 1915 American international
team, is tirst-class semi-pro catcher
we'll known to New York and New Jer-
sey sand lot ball followers. Tintle ana
Blakey are just out Of the army. Tin
team in France.
The American nine is scheduled to
play baseball games with Swedish
teams in ,Vasteras, Gothenburg and in
the Stockholm stadium. King Gustlf
V will attend the first soccer game and
also the first baseball game in the
Olympic Stadium.
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