The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-16
SWEDISH TEAM
 EXPECTS TO SHOW
 IN RUNNING RACES
Believe Few Brilliant Vic tories Will Fall to Their Lot, But Hope for Middle Distance.

Antwerp. Aug. 16-The Swedish Olympic team for track and field events does not expect many brilliant victories here but to make it's best showing in middle distance running events. Since the Olympic games .n Stockholm in 1912 much training has been given to the younger athletes of Sweden, the results of which have been shown in the qualification tests.
 The first semi final heat of the 100 meters was won by H. F. V. Edward of England with Scholz and kirksey of America running second and third respectively. The time was 10 4-5 seconds. The second heat was won by Pad doo&, America, with ,. Aikhan of France second and Murchison. Amer ica third. The time was II seconds flat. All the men named qualified for the finals.
 In the first of four heats of the 5000 meter run, Falk of Sweden finished first, H. c. Irwin of England second, Hans Kolehmainen of Fin land, third, and c. F'urnas of Purdue University fourth. All qualified for the final. Thomas Towns of Canada was distanced. The time was 15 minutes 17 4-5 seconds.
 In the third heat of the 5000 meters Speroni of Italy was first, Nurmi of Finland second, w! R. Sea grove of England third. and Lund- strom of Sweden fourth. c. F. Hunter of the Olympic club, San Francisco was distanced, finishing sixth. The time was 15 minutes 27 3-5 seconds.
 Hamilton Jumps Ahead.
  of the pentathlon. which was the chief event on the days program, Brutus Hamilton, University of Mis- meters; Lehtonen of Finland fourth with 6.59 meters; Robert LeGendre, Georgetown University, fifth with 6.505 meters, and Gyllenstelpe of Sweden sixth with 6.415 meters.
 In the 100-meter dash Engdahl is counted as good for 10 5-7 seconds and he is the hope of Sweden in the 200-meter race. In the 4QO-meter race Bolinj and Sundblad are be- lieved to be good for 49 seconds. Still Sweden is expected to have only a little chance in the short distances. Her best men are iii the distances ranging from 800 to 10000 meters. Much reliance is put on John Zander,
  ord holder who is expectNA to show his great speed again in the 1,500- meter race. Zander ran the distance in 1918 in 3 minutes 53 Is seconds and his trainer has assured The Asso- ciated Press that he is able to do that again. Zander is expected to show up we'll, too, in the S00-meter run where Sweden also will be represented by Bolin and Lundgren. All three of these are able to cover the dis tance in one minute 52 2-5 seconds to one minute 5 seconds.
 Both Lundgren and Zander will be strong competitors at 5,000-meters. In this event and in the 10,00O-me- ter run, Sweden will be represented also by Falk and Backman, both of whom have run the distance in re- markable fast time. Backman was easy winner of the English fve-mile championship in 1919. In the 100 meter relay race the Swedish team will consist of Holmstroem, Malm, Engdahl and Sandstroem. The team has repeatedly run the distance in 41 1-10 seconds
 Sweden is not expected to win the hurdle race. In the running broad jump w. Peterson has Jumped 7.260 meters and is considered good for 1850 meters Sweden sends F. Johnson and K. Sahlin as competi- tors in the hop, step and jump. Their records this year are respectively 15.2S. and 15.16 meters. In the pentathion and decathlon Sweden's best men will be Everit Nil son and Bertie Olsson. The pole jump will be contested by Mattsor and Higstrom. who have jumped over 3.SO meters but do not seem good | for anything better. Sigfrid Eds l troem heads the troop of athletes which mum bers fifty-one.