1928 OLYMPIAD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 9 May 1925, Page 5

1928 OLYMPIAD

DUTCH PARLIAMENT’S ATTITUDE (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) TITE HAGUE, May 8 Owing to the Chamber's decision not to endorse the Olympiad, the Dutch Olympic committee is most embarrassed. It may he forced to announce that Holland will be unable to organise the Olympiad in 1928. The Chamber's decision was reached after an acrimonious debate. The Minister of Education pleaded that if would ho a reflection ill tin* world’s eyes if Holland refused to have the games. Opposition came from a considerable group of Conservatives, who based their objections on religious grounds, contending that sporting demonstrations encouraged loose living and immorality and also entailed a lot- of Sabbath breaking. The newspaper Handelsblab says that the matter will not be allowed to rest where it is. Town councillors are hacking up sporting and other bodies in appeals for the establishment of a fund in order not to jeopardise holding the Olympiad as planned. SPORTING WORLD SHOCKED LONDON, May 8 The Daily Mail says that the sporting world is shocked, at Holland’s, refusal to organise an Olympiad oil the ground that sporting demonstrations encourage loose living and immorality. The Mail adds that the most ext-ravagent exaltation of sport is moderation compared with the assertion that sport isi .sin.