EMPIRE GAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 433, 15 August 1928, Page 9

EMPIRE GAMES

CANADA WANTS FIRST NO DEFINITE DECISION GREAT SPORTS FEDERATION (United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10.55 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. At the Empire Olympic Games delegates’ conference, under the chairmanship of Lord Desborough, Canada proposed that the Empire Games be held at Hamilton, Canada, in 1930. The concensus of opinion opposed the proposal, because the Olympic Games would suffer, Mr. Taylor maintaining that the plan was detrimental from an international aspect. There should be Empire Games or Olympic Games; both together were impracticable. Messrs. Horniman and Luff (Australia) confirmed Mr. Taylor’s opinion. Mr. Amos (New Zealand) opposed it. South Africa, India and some of the British delegates, notably H. M. Abrahams, endorsed the Australian view. Finally, without a plenary expression of opinion that the Empire constituents should do everything to support the Canadian scheme, with the object of co-ordinating the Empire athletic activities, and a reciprocity of hospitality, the conference decided to form an Empire Sports Federation, of which the constitution will be formulated by a composite body representing all the Olympic syllabus bodies. The constitution is to be submitted to the Lominions, when it is drafted, for ratification or amendment. "When this is finalised, the federation will function on behalf of the Empire.