ATHLETICS MEETING
FRANCE BEATS BRITAIN > PARIS, Sept. 2. France beat England by 73 points to 29 in. the first international athletic contest Binco the outbreak of war. The 10,000 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 the athletes of both nations who were killed in the war. This is the fifteenth contest between the two nations. Britain has won 11 and France four. Britain, in the heaviest defeat of the series, won only one of the 12 events —1500 metres in which Sidney Wooderson beat the French record of Smin. 49sec. by half a second.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21809, 4 September 1945, Page 4
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