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Show mm mm m FIOIUnillEBS Lornros of Stockholm Js Predicted Pre-dicted in Beat World Next (Summer. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NI2W YORK, Sopt. 14 Sweden is busily engaged propuring for the London Lon-don Olympic gurncn noxt year. Tho Swedes wont to tho Olympic games at Athens last ye.nr and surprised tho world bv finishing second in the point score. Engln.ud claimed the honor on the poinls scored by her far-away col- j onists, but it rightly belonged to the I plucky men of Sweden. En fly this month John Svanberg, who ran iii'the. Marathon and five-mile races in Greece, ran 5UU0 metres in lo.ia-H, and 10.000 metres in I'.l.nOI-u. Uolh of these marks are now world's records. Good as he is. Svanberg is evidently not the only good Swede at the distances, dis-tances, for at Stockholm recently G. Lornros took Svanberg 's measure to tho tune of ten minutes and twelve seconds. Lornros is said by those who have been him run to be a jtorfect. marvel, and his countrymen insist that he will beat tho world ue-"l summer. A fact that will favor the- Swedes in the London Olympiad is that the games wiir.be held in midsummer. Because of the early date of ihe Grecian Olympiad in 1906." the Swedes had to go into the meet, with scarcely a day's preparation. All their grounds were' snowbound up to the time I hey left for Athens, in April, while sucli a thing as an indoor Irack is unknown in Sweden. Next year they will have ample time to pro-pare, pro-pare, and tho chancos nro the." will show some amazing performances. Among the men Sweden will send to the London Olympiad are Svanborg, tho distance runner; Jlcllstrom, a 4.21 milor; Atellandpr, the all-round winner at Athens; Ath-ens; Soderstrom, who was second in the polo vault at. Athens; Lemming, a sprinter; Lornros, the new Swedish Marathon victor; besides Niclson, Sternborg, Runsl.rom, Fryksdahl, Ljuug, Bjorns." and half a suore more. England Eng-land will have to have her runners in wonderful trim to beat the Swedes. |