OLYMPIC GAMES DEFENDED

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1077, 25 July 1924, Page 5

OLYMPIC GAMES DEFENDED

DUTY OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA

TO TEACH OTHER NATIONS

PARIS, July 25. Lord Cadogen, president of the British Empire Olympic Association, refuses to believe that the death-knell of the Olympic Games has been sounded. England and America, he says, have a most important role to perform; that of inculcating sporting instincts, wherein the English are the modern crusaders. In England, sports and politics are as the poles as under: International sport must not be killed. The cessation of the Olympic Games "would be a disaster to the world. No one imagined that, by a-wove of a magician’s wand, the world could he made a perfect place for sport in u single Olympiad. The recent regrettable and -tinsportetnaillik© acts were isolated eases, and some nations involved were still recovering from the effects of the scourge o£ war. —A. and N.-Z. cable. SWIMMING CONTESTS. AUSTRALIANS PROMINENT. LONDON, July 24. The Australian Press Association’s Brussels correspondent says the entire team of Australian and American Olympic swimmers took part in contests in a Brussels bath in the presence of Prince Leopold, and before a huge crpwd. Charlton, the Australian, swimming leisurely, won the 500 metres in Tillius. 21secs. Beaurepaire (Australia) was second, and Christie (Australia) third. Weismuller won the _ ICO metres unextended. in 62secs. Sum Knhononioku was second and Henry (Australia) third. The American girl. Miss Wehsleau, won the 50 metres in 31 2-ssecs.., a .world s record, but the lime 13 not official. The Australian Press Association's Pans correspondent says the result of the Olympic team ciclmg road race over a course of 117 j miles' was:—France 1, Belgium 2, Sweden 3. Next finished Switzerland, Italy, Britain - Luxembourg, Jugo-Slavia Czecho-Slovakin, Egypt, Finland and Poland.—A. and N.Z. cable.