THE COLOR LINE

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 65, 18 February 1938, Page 3

THE COLOR LINE

of I ♦ 'I SOUTH AFRICA V. TRINIDAD on ffllXUlY T AT THE EMPIRE GAMES. SYDNEY. February 17. jThc in n.iucr of the South African gßupiiv < : i,« s team, Mr Emery, has [Jototeil .iiiiist the exaggerated reol the incident on Tuesday Ijmrht between members of his team qK(I a • 1 Ted member of the TriniX.l team JM)fr lv > said that in retaliation [Sir an by the Trinidad man the jflouth A 'lean had slapped his face. Bllii l !’• !ic«- Department states that ollici.d report has been made so Hr will- reirard to the unpleasantHpss. T ; :« whole affair, however, endMA with ' men concerned apologisHir ami .baking hands. SMr 1 dley Hellmrich, director of Hublicit tor the Empire Games, said: |I don ’t sec* what we can do about V. This and the other incidents are Suite lorci-n to mu as well as to Housands of other Australians. The ■onduct oi the men from Trinidad Bod Ceylon has been exemplary and ■entlenianiy. My own idea is that, ■0 matter what ideas men hold in ■heir own countries, when they are In Rome they should do as Rome ■toes.” ■ A premonition of the trouble which Broke out in the Empire Village in ■Sydney between the Trinidad athlete, Nod Stanford, and members of Ihe South African team was expressid in a letter received by a Gisborne lesident from Darcy Hconey, the GisBorne welter weight, who was run-per-up in his class at the Games. I “We are having some trouble with Ihe Africans, ” Heeney wrote on February 9th, “as they are giving the ■toys from Trinidad a pretty hard lime. The Springboks object to ‘ associating with negroes.’ All the other ■teams are up in arms against the ■Africans, woh are very unpopular, land there is a great deal of sympathy ■for the boys from Trinidad. The ■latter arc ail thorough gentlemen, and lare very popular.”