EMPIRE GAMES
THE STAGE SET
NEARLY 500 COMPETITORS
(Flow "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, January-20.
Fourteen countries'with, nearly 500 representatives will contest the 1938 Empire Games to be held in Sydney from February 5 to 12. Intensive organisation by sports officials, assisted by,the organisers of Australia's 150 th anniversary celebrations, has set the stage for the greatest sports event ever held in this country.
Nearly 300 of the competitors come from overseas. This generous support by' the Mother Country, sister Dominions, and the Colonies has made the Games a star feature of the anniversary celebrations. Every effort has been made for their success. The Empire Village established at. the Royal Agricultural' Society's Showground, Moore Park, ten minutes from, the city, has been a miniature Commonwealth of British Nations during the month or,six weeks preceding the Games. It has been a happy little settlement ia Sydney's midst. . Australia has 250 representatives, England, Scotland, Wales, and North Ireland more than 90, Canada.almost that number, New Zealand more than 70, South Africa 40, Ceylon. has nine, Rhodesia five, Trinidad three, India, British Guiana, and Bermuda each one.
Athletics will be decided.at.the Sydney Cricket Ground, where there is accommodation for 70,000 people; swimming and diving at the modern North Sydney Olympic Pool, cycling at Henson Park, Marrickville, with the road race on a circuit in Centennial Park, boxing and wrestling at the Rushcutter's Bay Stadium, and rowing and sculling on a magnificent stretch of the Nepean River, at Penrith, 40 miles west of Sydney. The complete programme for the Games is:
Saturday, February 5. —Grand opening ceremony, track and field athletics
(afternoon); swimming (evening). Monday, February 7.—Athletics (afternoon), boxing and wrestling (evening). Tuesday, February B.—Cycling (evening). Wednesday, February 9. —Diving and rowing (afternoon); swimming . (evening). Thursday, February 10. —Track and field athletics (afternoon); boxing and wrestling (evening). Friday, February 11.—Swimming (evening). Saturday, February 12.—Track and field athletics (afternoon); cycling (evening).-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 7
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315EMPIRE GAMES Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 7
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