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Show SWEDISH TEAM LIKELY OVERRATED I VVHEN tho athletes of all nations lino up for the Olympic at Stockholm next summer much will bo oxpocted of tho Swedish athlotcs. coached by Ernie HJcrtberg of Now York Paste this In your hat The Swedish athletes aro going to prove a great disappointment. Because of their great Improvement undor HJcrtberg, tho Swedes h.ao been advertised as. coming world bcatera In sporting columns tho world over and many unthinking persona are looking for a clean sweep by tho sturdy Norso-mon. Norso-mon. Among tho athlotlc experts who aro singing the praises of tho Swedes Is Sydnoy Abrahams of Cambridge university. uni-versity. Abrahams has latciy returned from a trip through Sweden, and ho saw wonderful activity there, He noted, not-ed, of course, tho tremepdoua Improvement Improve-ment on tho part of HJcrtbergs charges. Among tho "wonderful performers Abrah ims saw was a long Jumper who next year will do over twenty-two foot Now what chance will a twenty-two foot man havo In tho Olympic? Little, Lit-tle, to be sure. Abrahams admits that tho Swedes will havo no good sprinters in tho big games, but ho thinks that their dlstanco dls-tanco men will bo great. Tales aro alroady coming from S.wcd- J Nl en about tho vork of HJertbcrgs Mar- '; athon,mcn Ono man thero is in King V m Gustav's land who was devoloped by i RJ running around a small circle Inside of j, Li a country barn He Is already hailed j j as tho winner of tho Olympic race. It 'yR was tho same before the race at Ath- j n ens in 1906 The Groeks wero all win- j ' kj ners before tho race One of thorn ran 1 Is a trial In two hours flat, and another i j5 a priest announced that he was Insplr- Fto cd and could not help winning Tho j, I raco was won by Shorrlng of Canada, j; J with Svanberg of Sweden second nnd f, fj our own Billy Frank third not a Greek f jgl In sight f As long as Marathons are run Just J J, so long will thoy be won by mon who , ft rise to the occasion, as Johnny Hayes I JJ did at London. Hayes could not have ,J Q won again over the same field In fifty Jj tries, but ho "came through" that onco ' S and Is world famous as a result The ' S Stockholm Marathon of 1912 will prob- U ft ably bo won by tho man who rises to 5S tho occasion It may bo a Swede? it Sj may be an American, or It may be a j x! Frenchman. "There's no way of doping .' St it out in advance, becauso tho amateur 1 S Marathoner who could win consistently j- Nj has never yet been 3con I & |