MINISTRY OF SPORT.
0 There is abundant evidence of the athletic awakening of Europe. The cult of games, onto almost exclusively Brijtish, has for some time now captivated and oislavod the Frenchman and th« Scandinavian. To-day it is enrolling new devotees in Germany and even in Russia. 1 The latest shock to the agitators who I See in every British defeat a fresh, sign, of the degeneracy of our race will b« the recent "ukase," of the CV.ar appointing aj Department of Sjmhl for the propagation of athletics throughout the Russian Empire. Tli.it nothing may bo [lacking in the discipline and efficiency !of the undertaking, a soldier, MajorGeneral Voyekoff, has been put in ehargo of the new Department, and oven the Army. ''<" most conservative of all Jtoissi&ni matitut&ms, is to be allowed to participate m tlio simple joys of lawn, tennis and awoeiation football. Tlie new Minister will have a «,taff aJid, wiiat is more important, a considerable simply of money at his difr]K>sal. Already ho has made a good l>e~ ginning by forming a n Olympic Oouuoil from among the leading sportsmen of Russia, and he has succeeded in doing ■what no .man has vet done--—namely, in uniting St, Petersburg and M.noow under one flag of common d< re. Mr Fulda, one of Moscow's b ,L-kno\VD sportsmen, declares that Russia ivil? wo far at BerJin in J WIG. Apart from the cause Uiafc gave rise to the. creation of the Ministry of Sport, * whether it be the ignominious failure of ltti'-.'-i:i. ai the last Olympic Games or, as 1 thi'ik more ld\!> the beneficial .anli.b,'- . f footba" "> Ihe ''..-fvlutionarf r.i the ' • ■■< " <•••-%- ~ ■,• ; ■ • ':. I'et, ■■ •. I':■.•■■■ • !ocni ".■■■' -i a vc '» tr- ■ - <:'■ R
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Mataura Ensign, 29 September 1913, Page 5
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280MINISTRY OF SPORT. Mataura Ensign, 29 September 1913, Page 5
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