SPORT IN GERMANY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 August 1924, Page 15

SPORT IN GERMANY.

WIDESPREAD CRAZE THROUGHOUT THE LAND. Berlin just now is enjoying its greatest whirl of sports in history, and prize fights are scheduled . almost nightly, states the Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post. Since the rentemnark replaced the worthless paper mark, heavy-weights and lightweights have been flocking to Germany from England and other nearby countries to participate in the money harvest which sport promoters have been raking in. Six-day bicycle races, too, are popular, and have drawn such enormous crowds, day and night, that riders have been brought from the United States, Italy, Sweden, and other countries to add zest to the contests. At the boxing matches, and the bicycle races as. well, the sport followers fight for admittance, and the ticket speculators have done a land office business. The horse racing craze is in full swing, and when the weather prevents racing in Berlin, bets are laid on the events in Paris, so that for the followers of this sport there is always something doing. The lottery mania has spread pretty well all over the country. In addition to a State lottery, there is being operated a German Red Cross lottery, with regular drawings to assist charity, and in the Rhineland anrither, the proceeds of which are to go to repair the tower of the famous Cathedral of Cologne.