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Show SWEDES TO VISIT IN SPRING Prominent Sport Followers Pledge Enough Money to Send Athletic Team to United States. The visit of a small team of American Ameri-can athletes to Sweden this fall is going go-ing to result in big doings in track sports in this country next summer. The appearance of the five American stars Meredith, Simpson, Loomis, Ward and Murray in Stockholm, awakened in the breasts of the Scandinavian Scan-dinavian enthusiasts the desire to send a team to America, which so nearly bore fruit last June. Only a crisis between Sweden and the entente powers, pow-ers, which made it look as though King Gustav's country was about to be embroiled in the big war, prevented the Swedes from sending along a team under Ernie Hjertberg that would have done credit to the northland. As matters stand now, there is pledged by prominent sport followers in Sweden enough money to send a team of about 15 men to this country. It is felt that should the invitation of the New York Athletic club to the Swedish athletes be repeated next spring, as seems likely now, there will be a popular subscription mple enough to finance a team of twice the size of the one planned last spring. The one factor that would prevent the meet, as it did last spring, is the military situation. |