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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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Through the Canals of Venice

SWIMMING TO SKIING:
Varied Meets Highlighted
In World Sporting Events
By DAVE GREY
events. Pampiona will be the scene
FROM the snow-laden mountain of the Run of the Bulls from July
slopes in Norway to the inky 4-1, and the picturesque seaport
blue waters of Hawaii, some of the of Barcelona will play host to the
world's finest sporting events can Mediterranean Olympic Games,
be an added attraction for this July 16-25.
summer's tourist. Traveling north, one will be sur-
Many international champion- prised to find that the French have
ships, lively competition between also gone in for the brave matador.
far-apart countries, and other tra- Single days of bull fights are
ditional athletic events will be scheduled throughout the summer
scattered over the vacationing in Bordeaux and Bayonne. The
months of late May, June, July, specatacle of the horse race can
and August. Included in the list be taken in by the visitor to Par-
of foreign travelers should be a is in mid-June with the crowd-
healthy representation of Michi- drawing Steeplechase c o mai n g
gan athletics, competing for world June 27.
honors and training abroad. Another dramatic feature on
At this early date, several Wol- June 11 will be one of the world's
verine swimmers are lined up for greatest automobile races, Le
this summer. Freestyler and world Mans, which is a 24-hour endur-
record holder in the 220, Jack ance marathon. World polo cham-
Wardrop has been picked to swim pionships will occur later in Au-
in the big Hawaiian Keo Nakama gust at Deauville.
Swim Meet between some of the Germany will also be the scene
finest individual competitors in of auto racing. At the end of May
the United States and a strong and July, and the beginning and
Hawaiian team. While this event end of August, there will be sev-
is taking place during mid-July, eral famous traditional meetings
freestyler Burwell "Bumpy" Jones including the International Eifel-
has an opportunity to travel with Race on the Nuerburgring and the
an American squad to Japan. Grand Prix road and mountain
More athletes from the swim- races. A Grand Week of sporting
ming, track, and other teams will events will be held at Baden-Bad-
probably be chosen as the spring en, Aug. 25-31.
season progresses to make corres-
ponding trips abroad to compete NEIGHBORING Austria plans
on an individual or team basis, to follow up their big ski races
of the cooler period of early April
FOR the European tourist, there with a July 15-17 Gymnastics Fes-
exists a long line-up of sports tival at Graz. Football will be
that are made for exciting specta- played in medieval costumes in
for viewing. Florence, Italy, on June 24 in an
exhibition that should attract
The magic name of bullfighting many tourists.
with all its splendor and pagean-
try rates as one of the first "mosts" Across the waters of the Adri-
in Spain. After the famed "Fallas" atic Sea near Ljubljana, Yugo-
with topranking bullfights ends slavia, the championship skiff
at Valencia, the season will take a races will be held at the end of
brief lull to build up to later July. Hopping back across the con-

-Courtesy Italian State Tourist Office
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tinent to Ghent in Belgium there
will be the European Rowing
Championships, Aug. 25-28.
Sports - minded P o l a n d has
scheduled the second Internation-
al Youth Games in Warsaw from
August 1 through August 13. An
estimated 100,000 men and wom-
en from all over the world are ex-
pected to compete. Almost every
event imaginable can be found on
the program. A partial list in-
cludes major events in track,
swimming, and volleyball, tennis,
table tennis, boxing, s o c c e r,
weightlifting, water polo, field
hockey f or men, archery and fenc-
ing for both men and women.
Norway with its late season ski
race at Stigfjelleton on June 20
and Finland will both be active
this summer. Helsinki, site of the
1952 Olympic Games, has sched-
uled Association football in June
and August and the World Ar-
chery Championships, July 18-23.
Trotters will be digging up the
tracks in championships at Lap-
peenranta. The colorful three-day
yachting regatta is a main late-
July attraction at Turku. The
popular Lumberjacks' tournament
with log rolling and other rug-
ged events will be held at Rovan-
iemi on June 24.
MAY 20 marks the start of the
American-British Walker Cup
golf matches at St. Andrews.
Yachting regattas are also sched-
uled for July, along with the Brit-
ish Open golf championship. The
Scottish Amateur is another July
feature on the greens of Gullana
near Edinburgh.
The Isle of Man will provide
exciting and dangerous motorcycle
races for the tourist on June 6, 8,
and 10 and on Sept. 6 and 8, while
Ireland has an almost endless list
of spring golf matches. Horse rac-
ing and shows from Aug. 2 to 6 in
Dublin are some of Europe's most
handsome sporting events.
Ireland's greatest display and
competition between thorough-
breds has a five day stand, and
Aug. 6 is the date of the 1500 Gui-
neas Horse Race at Phoenix Park
in Dublin.

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