CRUSADERS OF SPORT
HOLE OF THE BRITISH.
THE OLYMPIC CAMES.
STOPPAGE A DISASTER. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) PARIS, July 23. Lord Cadogan, President of the British Empire Olympic Association, refuses to believe that the deatlrfcnell of the Olympic Games has been sounded. Britain and America have a most important role to perform—that of inculcating the sporting instincts, in which the English are modern Crusaders. In England sports and polities are as poles asunder.
International sport must not be killed. The cessation of the Olympic Games would be a disaster to the world. No one imagined that by a wave of the magician’s wand the world could be made a. perfect place for sport in a single Olympiad. The leoent regrettable and unsportsmanlike acts were isolated cases. Some of the nations involved are still recovering from the nerve-racking effects of the scourge of "war.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10168, 25 July 1924, Page 5
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