The Cruise of the Branwen

INTRODUCTORY connected with the organisation. Finally, com– memorative medals, of a special design, are to be struck for award to all personally engaged in carrying through the Games. Besides all this, dinners have to be given to the many official representatives specially appointed by the Governments or sovereigns of their respective countries to accompany their athletes in London ; to the athletes themselves ; to the foreign judges and officials who may be re– quested to assist the English executive; and to many more. In this respect the City Companies, the associations owning halls in London, and the various clubs interested in sport, have come forward with offers of that unstinted personal hospitality which is appreciated more than almost any other form of welcome; and all competing athletes will become honorary members of the Polytechnic (which provides a list of suitable lodgings for them) from the moment they land. There is one point with which I would con– clude this preliminary sketch of the Olympiad of 1908, and it is one which will be instantly appre– ciated by any one who has ever taken part in international sport. It is the production, through the labours of the British Olympic Council and of the sub-committees it has appointed, of a code of rules for every sport, translated into three languages, and accepted by every foreign nation that has competed. If the Council had effected nothing else, this result would alone have justified its labours ; and in this, the first inter– national code of sport ever produced with the B 17