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Show uk - - r H1! AMERICAN OLYMPlCTEAM. M New "ork. Feb. 10. Tho date fo M M ' the bailing of the American Olvmplc" 'team is tentativcJy announced as June Ju. The comralitcc has chartered tho steamship Finland for the trip, and the boat will bo elaborately equipped for the accommodation o. the athletes. ath-letes. A track- one-eighth of a mllo in leuglh will be laid out for the runners and there "will be ample space for Jumping pits and arenas for the shot-putters shot-putters and welghtmen. The boat has a fine gymnasium and a largo swimming swim-ming tank. The Finland will serve as a hotel for the team from the time tho boat sails from New York till it docks here on its return. The boat will arrive In Stockholm about ten day& before the opening of the Olympic program, July 6 and will leave on its return trip July IS, three days after the official close of the festival. The Finland is a larger craft than either the Barbarosfia, on which the American athletes sailed to AthenB for tho Olympic games of 1906, or the St Paul, which took them to London for the Olympiad of 190S. Accommodations will be reserved for 300 passengers in addition to the-athletes, the-athletes, members of the committed and officials, as the treasurer hopes to pay at least part of the oxnenso of transporting the team by revenue gained from other passengers. |