Blows Struck

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 40, 17 February 1938, Page 6

Blows Struck

Aftermath of the Games

SOUTH AFRICANS ATTACK TRINIDAD MAN United Pros Association—B* Xlaetrta Trla*raph.—Copyright. P' SYDNEY, FebPlS. ] Plows were -♦ruck in an encounter between Noel Stanford, the Trinidad Empire Games re-, presentative, and a member of the South African team at Empire Village last night. It was the culmination of bad feeling which had existed between the South Africans and the Trinidad men since the teams first started training. Police intervention prevented a fight in the road outside the quar- 1 ters when Stanford was holding four South Africans at bay with a handful of stones. Stanford had been nearly stunned by a blow on the side of the face. There were threats in some of the camps of. raiding the Soutli Africans’ quarters, and a large force of police was on duty all j night. MEN CONCERNED APOLOGISE AND SHAKE HANDS Received Wednesday, 9.40 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 16. The Police Department states that no official report has been made so far with regard to the unpleasantness between the South Africans and the Trinidad coloured athletes. The whole affair, however, ended in the men concerned apologising and shaking hands. Mr. Dudley Hellmrich, director of publicity at the Empire Games, said: “I don’t sec what we can do about it. This and the other incidents are quite foreign to me, as well as to thousands of other Australians. The conduct of the men from Trinidad and Ceylon has been exemplary and gentlemanly. “My own opinion is that no matter what ideas men hold in their own countries, when they are in Rome they should do as Rome does.”