THE OLYMPIC GAMES,
This diploma designed by Mr. Bernard Partridge and exhibited in the Royal Academy, is given to all winners or the gold medal presented to victors in the twenty-one various sports (including about 120 different events) of the Olympus games completed on Saturday. A smaller size of the same design is also presented to the club or association of which the winner is a member, and to competitors who gain second or third places in the various events. The central figure represents Victory offering a crown, with Hellas and Britannia at her side. At the spectator's right, in one corner, sits a competitor resting after his race, typifying the athletic purposes of these games; and in the other corner of the foreground is a figure representing International Concord, the chief result which, it is hoped will flow from meetings like the present. The design is completed by various figures of athletes on each side grouped in a classic temple which looks out over a landscape in the background", the -Dail ° Utlines ° f Mr- Partrid g e ' s beautiful picture are reproduced here, as drawn for
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 183, 1 August 1908, Page 11
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187THE OLYMPIC GAMES, Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 183, 1 August 1908, Page 11
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