The Cruise of the Branwen

TH WREATH OF OLIVE Brussels, and elsewhere, under the direction of distinguished delegates from every nation. The large number of nations represented at Athens shows how widely the idea appeals to every one. The only great nation conspicuous by its absence was Spain; and with an English Queen upon the Spanish throne it is not likely that a nation which has produced and per– fected so magnificent a game as pelota will long be absent from Olympic meetings in the future. If there is one characteristic of the opening twentieth century more promising than another, it is the international goodwill which has been created by friendly international rivalries. The gospel of good sport has spread until it has reached nations which were previously untouched by any single spark of athletic emulation. This is pro– ducing results not upon the bodies only, but upon the minds and temperaments as well, of vast sections of the world's population. England no longer stands alone, as once she did, .as the apostle of "hard exercise." It is immensely significant that the whole Olympic movement owes its renaissance to a Frenchman, and that France is the nation which holds the best all– round record at the last Games in Athens. We have had to see our pupils beat us, and we can but work our hardest to continue giving them a stubborn contest for supremacy. No friends are closer, no friendships last longer, than those made in the honest struggle for victory in manly sports. The amity of nations has been no little 103