To ballyhoo Cuba's political serenity, boom Havana tourist trade, Cuba's idealistic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias last autumn hit on the idea of a Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human and a horse,...
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