SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 6 August 1913, Page 8

SUNDRY SPORTS.

ATHLETICS. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. ,'By Eleothio Telegraph —Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.] Paris, August 4. The French Olympic are asking the Government to- grant £20,000 for training a team for "sporting purposes. The Association -is - spending £4OOO annually for three years in discovering and training Olympians. Douin, the long distance champion runner, has gone to the "United States to study American methods.

CRICKET. AUSTRALIA v. NEW YORK VETERANS. l ßy Eleothio Telegraph— Copy bight] [United Press Association.! New York, August 5. Australia heat thirteen New York /etcrans, scoring 404 to 144.

FOOTBALL. PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP. TO-MORROW'S BIG MATCH. The match of the season will be flayed to-morrow afternoon at El;ham, when Tukapa 1., who have rono through the season without a oss. and badly defeated the leading Saturday team on Thursday last, \ 111 be matched against Waimate jeniors, who have proved themselves is good a team as the Plains have iad for some years, and who have ihown themselves, as results record, nuch the-best team in the Southern Division. The match is certain to )o interesting, and should prove a ine exposition of Rugby football. Both teams are in good fettle, and ire playing at the top of their form, ind both will strive their utmost to win.