The Cruise of the Branwen

THE WREATH OF OLIVE comings of others. One solution of the difficulty would be the establishment, in each department of international competition, of one authority, recognised by all the competitors before the meeting as supreme. He should be above any suspicion of partiality, and might, if necessary, be remunerated by the Central Committee of the Games in question, to whom alone he should be responsible. He would select, wherever neces– sary, assistants in his own department, respon– sible to himself alone. He would be guided in his decisions by such a code of rules as that which has been accepted beforehand by all competitors in 1908, same time as they agreed upon him as their exponent. By this means an accepted codification of the various rules enforced by different nation– alities in the separate departments of sport has been produced, which will be the link between our various associations and those of other coun- tries. This code will be unchangeable, when once the meeting has begun, and competitors have given their adherence to it by the fact of entry. No entries will be allowed after a given date. Every section of athletes should have a recognised captain, who might or might not be himself a competitor, but who must be responsible to the Central Committee for the actions of his team, and must be respon– sible to his team for all official communi– cations as to time and place of contest during the actual Games, and for the proper upholding of the team's interests. In addi– tion to this, the whole body of athletes from 99