TRIALS AFTER GAMES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 13

TRIALS AFTER GAMES.

BRITISH V. AMERICANS. Thra United -States Olympic Association has definitely sanctioned the proposed athletic match between an All British and an American team immediately after the Olympic Games. The match will therefore take place at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, August 11, and will without doubt -be the great a-theltic event of the year. Memories will go back to the gathering in July, 1924. when Eric Liddell ran the greatest quarter that has ever been seen in Britain to get 'hi-s side home, and the American fieid event men put up a number of fresh records Interest will be the more keen, as this will be absolutely the only match in which, the American Olympic team can take pant. Invitations from various other countries were ceiv-'>d and considered, but the American Athletic Union had already provisionally accepted the proposal of the Amateur Athletic Association, and the Olympic Committee’s arrangements call for such an early return that o-nLv one contest is practicable-. The team will he on tne boat on their wav hack to the States 48 lours alter the match. The U.S.A. Olympic Committee is also banning any individual tours, hut it is possible that an excer-'on may be made to allow those of Irish descent to take part in the Tailtcann Games a - Dublin, which run from the iota to the 18th of Augn-sit.