FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE.
CHILL RECEPTION AT HOME. Mr. W. Smythe, Australia's wrestling representative at tho Festival of Empire sportsi was not enamoured of tho reception given to the Australians in England. In conversation with a writer in the Sydney "Rcieroe," he said: ''Immediately on reaching London I inquired about training quarters, believing arrangements had been made for the reception, housing, and preparation of tho team; but no—not a move. We wero as strangers in a stranga land, and had to look to ourselves. Subsequently promises wore plentiful, but nothing came of them Harold Hardwi-.-k had been on tho ground five weeks befo,-o arrived, and so far had done no sparring, and could get no reliable information or satisfaction of any kind from those charged with the responsibility of running the Festival of Empire games. . . "Away from the competitions, and what led up to and attended upon them, I had a good time, and was well satisfied with tho trip; but tho stand-offishness of thoso who should have received us open-4rn;ed, and done the honours of the house, will not soon bo forgotten by me."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1230, 12 September 1911, Page 7
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