BERLIN OLYMPIC GAMES
... BOYCOTT URGED BY U.S. CHURCHES. Hot on the heels of the latest demands by- Jewish organisations that the United States should withdraw its support from the 1936 Olympic Games in ...
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TO-MORROW THE GREAT OLYMPIC FESTIVAL OPENS IN BERLIN
... BRITAIN'S CHANCES Football Starts On Monday And Lasts Ten Days . . . Over Four Thousand Athletes Representing 45 Nations THE Olympic Games Berlin o ...
The Queen of Greece has instituted what she calls Olympic games to take place every four years, on the four
... first Sundays in October. ...
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
... DEVONIAN'S SUCCESS. Yesterday there was another full programme at the Stadium. A good deal interest was evinced by West of England people in the performance of F. Holman, of Exeter ...
GOSSIP OF THE DAY
... ALWAYS READY. Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington, who has been appointed to command the forces in Matabeleland, is to reach London this evening from Gibraltar, and is to leave Southampton next Saturday. He carries little impedimenta with him, and, as in bis South African experience, always his kit ready packed for any service. is related of him that when the Government sent him to tbe Cape ...
ATHLETES AS PEACEMAKERS
... LORD DESBOROUGH'S OPINION. Speaking at luncheon given the Phyllis Court Club the competitors the Olympic Regatta at Henley, yesterday. Lord Desborough said though Italy was un ...
THE OLYMPIC GAMES. •
... THE OLYMPIC GAMES. ? [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] ATHENS, April 11. The Olympic Games were continued here to-day, when Herr Schumann (German) threw M. Tsintas (Greek) in the final wrestling contest. In the 100 Metres Swimming Contest M. Hajos, of Budapest, easily beat his 20 competitors. The final heats in the 2,000 Metres and 10,000 Metres Bicycle Races took place to-day at the Phalerum Velo- drome, ...
The Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette
... Established January, 1772. MONDAY. JULY 27, 1908 Sport has occupied a very prominent place in the public mind during the past week two. The Olympic Game! nave, natu ...
RESTORATION OF THE OLYMPIAN GAMES IN GREECE
... A correspondent, writing from Athens, under date September 4, says: The Queen-Regent has just signed a Royal decree for the re-est3blishment of the ancien ...
Revival of the Olympic Games.—A private letter from thens of the 31st of March, says:— I mentioned some time since
... the project on foot for the re-establishment of the Olympic Qatncs, or industrial and agricultural exhibitions of the produt ts of Greece. Like the celebrated games in the olden time, 1 >ng past, our modern exhibitions will be held every four years. The first exhibition will take place on the 16th of Octol«r, 1859. There will be at the inauguration and during the four weeks of its duration ...
GERMANY GOES OLYMPIC
... SOMETHING national fervour is again sweeping Germany. This time it has nothing to do with Nazis and Brown Shirt politics. It has to do with sport, and it is Olympian its force, ju ...
HULL OLYMPIC SWIMMER BACK FROM NEW ZEALAND
... BACK IN HULL after a trip to New Zealand, where he took part in the British Empire Games, is Jack Hale, the Hull Olympic swimmer. Fit and bronzed, he is now ...