SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 50, 20 June 1914, Page 6

SUNDRY SPORTS.

CRICKET. [Bt Electric Telegraph—Coptbisht] [United Pbebb Association.] (Received 10.20 a.m.) Sydney, June 20. Trumper has advised the Board of Control that he will not be available for the South African tour. He refused to give hjs reason, Tlje -Tplegraph states that it is exceedingly doubtful whether Macartney will be able to .undertake the trip, having recentlj’ entered the railway service. Clem Hill, Vernon, and Hansford are unable to get away. Armstrong and Carter will both be avail-, able. The selectors meet to-day. athletics. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Paris, Juno 19.' The Olympic Conference agreed that women be eligible for certain competitions. : It was also decided that an athlete having competed for a nation, would bo ineligible afterwards to compete for another nation. It was resolved to recognise the amateur definition adopted by various governing bodies, but wh§rp the latter do not exist the Olympic Committee will frame a definition. ' Hie Conference reTusfed to recognise Finland and Bohemia as separate nations.