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Show SWEDEN IIS PLANS FOR OLYMPIC GAMES NEW YORK, Nov. 15. Sweden is going' go-ing' to walk away with the honors at the Olympic games in Belgium next year if money can help it. The games are months away and all the arrangements are yet in infant stages. Nevertheless, the Swedish athletic ath-letic commission has appropriated $100,000 to get a team in shape to compete for its flag. This sum will be augmented by a later appropriation to cover the expenses of the trip to Antwerp. The commission is trying to prevail upon Ernie Hjertberg to absent himself from his business in Goteborg long enough to train the team. Hjertberg, it will be remembered, was formerly a coach of the Irish-Ann rican Athletic club and trained the Swedish team in 1912. Along with Justice Bartow S. Weeks, secretary of the American Olvmnic com mittee, Hjertberg was largely responsible for a change in the Belgian plans which added to the events the marathon race, the . decathlon and the hop-step-and-jump, which were left off the first list. America and Sweden both hope to be big point winners in those events. In the near future the American committee com-mittee is expected to announce plans for raising a fund to defray the expenses of the Yankee team. |