In another colaba we publish the results of China's first Olympic Games, that wore held last week in the Nanking Exhibition, Athletic sports have been feature of schoo! and college life for several years; bat this was the first occasion on which an attempt had been made to bring together for a sports meeting Chinese students from all parts of the Empire.
While the contests in Naoki inspiring the youth new appreciation of another representative gathering of still ter influence recorded in the distant capital its un-simons vote, with almost equally demonstrative enthusiasm, in favour of an early opening of the promised parliament, It may be, therefore, that the Nanking sports will in the course of time become invested with the same significance that the First Olympic Gawes bad fur the ancient Greeks, Nut many years ago the Chinese would have had to reach their Olympia in the same way us the Greek dwellers in Athens sod the Archipelago, True the steamer would have displaced the best propelled by oars or the sailing ship, but for the land journey the Chinese would have been equally handicapped, and the month's trace that enabled the Greek to reach his goal and to return would have required its counter part in Ohina. Last week, howe the contestants travelled at least part of the way in comfortable trains and week or a fortnight's holiday sufficed, The meeting was thoroughly national,
or colleges in Peking, Tientsin and for there were fg ree of schools Tangebow, in Hankow and Wachang, in "Soochow and Shanghai and ith Whatever ign it may have been—and it is fair that credit should be given where it is due—it was Kept carefully in the background and China has reason to be proud of the success attending these First Games. The support accorded to the movement was spontaneous and universal, for parely Government institutions displayed no less Keenness than the colleges ander foreign auspices, Tothe students themselves fore gathered in Nanking the novelty of the experience appealed irresistibly and their enthusiasm knew no bounds, On the last night it found an-rehearsed expression in s monster torchlight procession organized by the students themselves and carried out in an exemplary manner. Before the gathering dispersed interport fixtures for next year had been arranged, and speak of the miraculous, we do not mean
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