WIN FOR FRANCE
INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS
PARIS, September 2. France beat England by 73 points to 29 in the first international athletic contest since the outbreak of war. Ten thousand spectators at Colombes Stadium gave both teams a tremendous ovation when they came out, and then stood up and observed two minutes' silence in memory of athletes of both nations killed in the war. This is the fifteenth contest between the two nations. Britain has won 111 and France four. In the heaviest defeat of the series, Britain won only one of 12 events — the 1500 metres, in which Sidney Wooderson beat the French record of 3min 49sec by half a second.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 9
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111WIN FOR FRANCE Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 9
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