The Archive · 1937

First Entry for 1940 Olympic Games

Tokyo, May 10, The frst entry for the Olympic Games to be held here in 1940 hasbeen received from the Philippine Islands, according to an announcement made by Prince Tokugawa, the president of the Olympic Organising Committee.

George B. Vargas, a member of the International Olympic Committee, informed Prince Tokugawa that the Philippines intended to send the strongest team fever trained in their country to the 1840 Olympic Games.

The Philippine Islands were represented by a team of Slat the eleventh Olympic Games in Ber~ lin last year.—Trans-Oceat sil up, by any, means, and Mf A. King helped im most usefully, being left-handed and puzzling the eld" with the frequent' changes of position after every single. The Score was in the nineties when King at last sent a catch, at his successor stayed long enough to see the century" passed. cuowmuus Gl Sot Sweetanot vowvons [8] suitnw have gone on strike on instructions from "their syndicate which "is affiliated to the Marxist-General Confederation of Labour.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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