Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1911 — LOOK OUT FOR SWEDEN’S TEAM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOOK OUT FOR SWEDEN’S TEAM

“Watch out for Sweden In the Olympic games at Stockholm next year,” said Everett Brown, president of the Amateur Athletic Union of America, just before he left Chicago the other day for New York to attend a meeting of some of the United 'States representatives to the Olympiad. “The ’native sons’ have gone out for ;the world’s athletic. championship with ‘bipod in their eyes,’ and with 'the training they wilt have, added to | the natural ability they displayed in i London in 1908, they are going to cut i considerable figure at Stockholm. “I don’t want to be accused of lack jof patriotism or anything like that because of my statement,” continued the {president. “My aim is to warn the

athletes of this country that they will have to be up and doing every minute of the time if they want to figure at .the top in the final/ count, for Sweden is going to leave nothing undone to turn the trick. “As a starter, the government is back of the movement by which Ernie Hjertberg, former coach of the New York Irish-Amerlc&n Athletic club, has been secured to train the Swedish athletes, and he has been given free' rein in his work. At present he is engaged in Bcouring the entire couni try for athletes from all stages of life, and every time he lands a man who looks like a ‘comer’ he puts that individual to work with a promise of v a place on the Olympic team if he shows enough class.”

Everett C. Brown.