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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 9

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EQUESTRIANS CLOSE GAMES. QUEEN PRESENTS FIRST PRIZES. United Service. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12. The Olympiad was closed to-day with a spirited horse jumping competition in the stadium. Subsequently the 12 victors in the equestrian events chiefly officers of various nations, cantered round the track amid a demonstration by the 40.000 spectators." The other prize-winners paraded before the Royal box, but this spectacle suffered by the absence of many who were already on their way home. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland presented the first prizes and the Prince Consort, descended to the track and presented the second prizes. Comto Latour, president of the Olympic executive, presented the third prizes. A fanfare of trumpets then announced the closing of the Games, and the Olympic flag was slowly hauled clown, while salutes were fired and a band played a farewell hymn. Finally the silk flag which Belgium gave in 1920, and which had been retained in Paris since 1924, was handed over to the Mayor of Amsterdam where it will remain until the next Olympiad at Los Angeles.

RUSSIAN COMPETITIONS. INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISTS. United Service. AMSTERDAM, Auk. 12. A despatch from Moscow says the Soviet Games, the Russian rival to the Olympic Games, called the Spartakiade, have been begun. They will continue until August 22. There are several thousand foreign competitors, including some from Britain. These foreigners all represent Communist organisations.

DECISIONS IN BOXING.

GRAVE DISSATISFACTION. Australian Press Association—United Service (Received August K5. 8.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. Aug. 12. "This will be the end of Olympic boxing," declared Brigadier General R J. Kentish, vice-chairman of the British Olympic Council iri referring to the vagaries of the referees during (lie contests just finished. NEW OLYMPIC CHAMPION. CAREER OF EDWARD MORGAN. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Monday, The only New Zealand representative to make good at the Olympic sports in Amsterdam, Edward Morgan, who won the welter-weight boxing championship, was only 21 years of age on the Saturday before the team left Wellington. He lias been undergoing instruction in boxing for three years in Wellington, but before that, when a pupil at Wellington College, he showed himself to bo a natural boxer. At college he first won the fly-weight championship, then the bantam-weight, light-weight and welter-weight , titles, usually knocking out his opponent with his powerful, straight left. He later figured in the Wellington and New Zealand boxing championships and won the lightweight championship last year. Morgan was a light-weight when ho left New Zealand and has developed into the welter class since. The new Olympic champion, who is serving his apprenticeship to the plumbing trade in Wellington, takes the " south paw" stance in the ring. He is very well built and is sft. 9in. in height.