The Cruise of the Branwen

INTRODUCTORY gate-money cover a capital outlay of some £50,000. So a series of athletic events was arranged from May I till the Olympic Games of July 13, and continues after them until the Olympic contests in football, hockey, and lacrosse begin on the grass in the centre on October 19. In addition to all this, exhibits of articles con– nected with games and pastimes, athletics, and life-saving, touring, mountaineering, and explora– tion, has been arranged in a gallery of some 55,000 square feet in extent, which runs all round the arena beneath the highest tier of seats, and outside the series of dressing-rooms and committee-rooms which are beneath the lowest seats and nearest to the cycle-track. Manufacturers who sent in exhibits have therefore had unequalled oppor– tunities of giving a practical test, close at hand, of the excellence of their wares : and it must be clearly understood that while the Franco-British Exhibition is by contract limited to the products of two countries and their respective colonial possessions, the Olympic arena is wholly inter– national and unrestricted, both in the com– petitors for its prizes and the exhibitors of its gallery of sports and pastimes. By these means, therefore, between May and November it may be hoped that the sporting public spirit which enabled England to possess an athletic arena on such splendid lines will see a full return of its generous expenditure. I must now touch on the expenses incurred directly by the British Council. It will be generally admitted that it would be 15