WORLD CHESS TOURNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 9

WORLD CHESS TOURNEY

DR. EUWE LEADS BY TWO

POINTS

(Received December 6, 9.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, December 5. Dr. Euwe won the twenty-sixth game in the world chess tournament. He has now won 14 games and Dr. Alekhine 12.

Grecian life. Athletics and sport came to be regarded as outside of, and even antagonistic to, religion.

The revival of the Olympic Games, and }he renaissance of athletic sports for organised leisure, are among the most hopeful signs oi the present age. In no country has this renaissance of athletic sport been more welcomed than in Germany. As might be expected in a Totalitarian State, the sports-leader is a high Government official. As soon as expert instructors are available athletics will be made compulsory in the educational syllabus. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. Germany has welcomed the opportunity of holding the Olympic Games next August in the Fatherland. Berlin is not only being spring-cleaned, but renovated for the occasion. ■ City squares are being remodelled and streets reconstructed, and new highways are being built to enable the authorities to deal with the traffic without congestion. A wonder city of Olympia is under construction by thousands of workmen on an elevated plateau on the outskirts of the city. The lay-out of the city is on a scale which would make the old Olympians marvel. The Olympic Stadium will accommodate 100,000 spectators. The swimming stadium will seat 10,000 onlookers There. is an open-air theatre with accommodation for 20,000 people. There is a hockey stadium; a stadium for equestrian events, polo, etc.; twelve tennis courts with adjoining basketball courts; palatial buildings for the administration, restaurants, community houses for men and for women, gymnasia; and parking spaces for thousands of motor-cars. Ample railways, surface and underground, is being provided to cope with the traffic; and already, ample provision to accommodate visitors by the hundred thousand, is being organised.

When on August 1, 1936, Fuhrer and Chancellor Hitler with the members of the International Olympic Committee, will ride from Berlin along a newlyconstructed triumphal highway to inaugurate the Games, it is fondly hoped that on the playing fields the spirit of the New Germany will impress the world. And that when the last event has been decided, not only the team which crossed the North Sea in an aerial navy to contest with England for football honours, but in the realm of international sport, Germany will breast the tape as victor. And the na-1 tional aspiration, Deutschland Über' Alles, will become a reality in the I realm of sport. Whichever country wins the laurel, the Olympic Games must be welcomed by all people o£ good will as a gesture from the realm of international sport to a world brotherhood of nations. W.S.R.