OLYMPIC GAMES.
By telegraph, Press Aos’n, Copyright Athens, April 29. At the Olympio games 4000 spectators were present. Hackensmidt beat Meadrate in oalch-as-oatoh can wrestling. The first bout lasted a minute and a half, and the second four minutes Gore beat Wilding in the final for the covered court championship at lawn tennis by three sets to two. Wilding and Mi«s Douglas defeated R, Doherty and Miss Bastlake for tho Smith challenge round doublsa by two sets to one. Barker, Sydnoy, won a heat in the 400 metrrs race in 53 seoonds, and is favorite for the final. Later.-Barkor was third in the final in the 400 metres race.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1737, 1 May 1906, Page 2
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