RUMANIA: Royal Sports

Crowned heads were very much to the fore when King Ferdinand opened the new American Country Club in Bucharest by being the first to tee off on the links.

Crown Prince Carol served the first tennis ball and Queen Marie of Yugo-Slavia, daughter of the Rumanian King, pitched the first ball in a baseball game between the American colony and the Rumanian Government staff.

The Country Club, which is the first established in the Balkans, has golf course, tennis courts, baseball diamond, polo grounds, running track and other accessories.

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