OLYMPIC GAMES.
A MORE CHEERFUL VIEW. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PARIS, July 23. Lord Cardigan (president of the Brit, ish Empire Olympic Association) refuses to believe that the death-knell of the Olympic Games has been sounded. England and America have a most important role to perform—that of inculcating. sporting instincts, in which the English are modern crusaders. In England sports and politics are as poles asunder. International sport must not lie killed, and the cessation of the Olympic Games would he a disaster to the world.
No one imagined that hy a wave of a magician’s wand the world could liemade a perfect place for sport. The recent regrettable unsportsmanlike acts are isolated cases, he said, and some of the nations involved are still recovering from the nerve-racking effects of the scourge of war.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 July 1924, Page 5
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