Seventy British Athletes For Empire Games
Received Thursday, 10.30 a.m. LOND,ON,- Sept. 14. The Empire Games Council proposes to send about 70 competitors representing England in eight sports to the Empire Games at j Auckland next February. The sports are athletics, boxing, • cycling, fencing, rowing, swim- ■ ming, weight-lifting and wrestling. Seventy competitors_ wou'd represent a.bout one-third of the number required for a full team in all sports. To date only about nalf of the target sum of £20,000 for expenses has been raised.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 September 1949, Page 5
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