EMPIRE SPORTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 August 1928, Page 11

EMPIRE SPORTS

LATE EDITION

FEDERATION TO BE FORMED.

CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES. INVITATION FROM CANADA. Press Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 11.40 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 14. At the Empire Olympiad delegates’ conference, under the chairmanship of Lord Des borough, Canada proposed that Empire games be held at Hamilton (Canada) in 1930. The consensus of opinion was opposed to the proposal because the Olympiads would suffer, Mr. Taylor maintaining that the plan was detrimental from an international aspect. There should he either Empire games or the Olympiad, but both together was impracticable. Messrs. Horniman and Duff confirmed Mr. Taylor’s opinion, but Mr. Amos (New Zealand) opposed it. South Africa, India, and some British delegates, notably Abrahams, endorsed the Australian view.

Finally, without a -plenary expression of opinion on the proposal that the- Empire- constituents should do everything to support the Canadian scheme with the object of co-ordinat-ing Empire athletic -activities and the the reciprocity of hospitality, the conference decided to form an Empire Sports Federation, of which the constitution is to he formulated. It will he a composite body representing all Olympic syllabus bodies. The constitution is to be submitted to _ the Dominions when drafted for ratification or amendment. When it is finalised the federation will function on behalf of the Empire.