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A ROUND OF SPORT

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Comprising ' visits ' to the White City with HAROLD ABRAHAMS for the A.A.A. Championships, to Hatfield Aerodrome with IVOR MCCLURE for the King's Cup Air Race, and to Lord's Cricket Ground with R. WOODROOFFE for the Eton and Harrow Match
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Here is another great sports afternoon, with flashes to three kinds of sport :-
THE WHITE CITY. The commentator here, Harold Abrahams , is one of the greatest athletes of post-war years. In 1922 he was President of the Athletic Club at Cambridge, and at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, he put up one of his greatest performances by beating the finest sprinters in the world in the 100 metres Final. He is a well-known broadcaster and gave the running commentary on the Oxford and Cambridge Sports held at the White City in March this year.
HATFIELD AERODROME. It is good news that the commentator here is to be Ivor McClure , who gave a brilliant talk entitled ' Making Flying Safe ' in the recent Conquest of the Air series.
LORD'S. Listeners may hear fullthroated shouts-' E-ton ' ... ' Harrow ', but the commentator will be as unmoved by the show of cornflowers as by the shimmering of pale blue tassels. R. Woodrooffe will be interested first and last in the cricket-three years running he played for the Navy at Lord's. He retired with the rank of Lieut.-Commander, and listeners may remember that two years ago he gave one of the best cricket talks ever heard on the air in ' Cricket in the Seven Seas

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Harold Abrahams
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Ivor McClure
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R. Woodrooffe
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Harold Abrahams
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Ivor McClure
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R. Woodrooffe

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