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be extended to the white-uniformed French gymnasts, when they come to Prague in June.
The celebrations in connection with the seventh general Sokol meet will extend over several weeks. June 6 pupils of the Prague school will exhibit their drill, and on June 13 Sokol youth, children of the members and themselves future members of the great organization, will in tens of thousands parade on the extensive grounds and show, what Sokol training did for them. Then on June 20, 21 and 22 the junior Sokols will flock together and compete for prices. 
Russian Women Sokols Play Snowball Game, Prague, 1912.The principal events, however, take place on June 25, 26 and 27, when pupils, juniors, and adult men and women will exhibit calisthenic exercises and compete in gymnastic and athletic events, as well as take part in specially designed evolutions. For Sokols from the United States a separate day has been set aside, namely the Fourth of July, when they will give exhibition of specifically American athletics and games.
It is, of course, to be expected that the Prague hotels, which could not accomodate the influx of strangers ever since the city became the capital of a republic, will be crowded. But visitors from America need not hesitate on that ground to take in an event that in picturesquesness and genuine sporting interest will have no equal. There is in Prague a governmental office, known as the Foreign Visitors Bureau, which has the first call on hotel accomodations. And an American has the first call on the services of this bureau.
Czechs and Slovaks in America will turn up strongly at the seventh all-Sokol meet. The Sokol Union of America is sending 7 teams to contest in the sporting events, and the organization is in addition conducting a tour to Prague in connection with the celebrations. About five hundred men and women, both members of the Sokol organization and non-members, have paid their deposit and will leave New York early in June. Before the time comes for closing the books, there will be many more than this number. They will have their own ship, and the difficulties of travel over war-torn Europe will be smoothed out for them. The great Sokol Union of Bohemia and the Czechoslovak government want Americans to come and will do everything possible to make their visit pleasant. The address of the travel bureau of the Sokol Union of America is 2601 So. Lawndale Ave., Chicago, Ill.