Talk:1930 British Empire Games

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I have a pin dated 1930 from the British Empire Games. I am trying to find out any information, i.e. value, what it was given out for, etc...If anybody out there could help me out my E-Mail address is saneandsober@yahoo.ca

sculling
Bob Pearce of Australia was participating in these 1930 British Empire Games. Does anyone know if he won a medal in the singles scull? Reply to rpeirce@cogeco.ca I was born three blocks from Scott Park in August 1930 and he is why my mother gave me the first name of Robert. Thanks

One Robert Pearce did in fact represent Australia at the 1930 British Empire Games and not only that he won one of Australia's first Commonwealth Games gold medals in the single sculls.

He defeated one H. Beresford of England who won the silver and one H. Bradley also of England who the bronze.

Regards Ianblair23 16:34, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

irish flag
why is the flag of Leinster used here rather than the Image:Flag of Ireland.svg? did the irish team at the games represent the whole of ireland, or either north or south? --Astrokey 44 11:41, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * According to the Commonwealth Games Federation it was Northern Ireland. In that case the Leinster flag is wrong. --89.217.170.145 (talk) 11:48, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Newfoundland
Apparently the pic for Newfoundland's Red Ensign has been deleted from Wikipedia. The link to the flag in the medal listings should probably be fixed or removed. I don't know where to get a public domain copy of the flag... Simonus

Handball
In the Commonwealth Games main article, section 'Approved sports' is something like this: Sport       Type           Years Handball    Recognised     1930 Should this mean that handball was played at these 1930 games? There is no mention in this page about handball. 82.141.94.241 (talk) 03:10, 16 September 2010 (UTC)


 * The article indeed has "1930" in the row of handball, suggesting it was played then. However, Commonwealth Games website doesn't have handball in their result archive. 85.76.102.33 (talk) 08:18, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

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Flags
It's not clear what flags were used by the four home nations in 1930. A bit of Googling yields the following:

This postcard (I think it postdates the games; compare the actual podium) suggests:


 * England || Flag of the United Kingdom.svg || Union jack
 * Scotland || Lionrampant.svg || Red lion rampant
 * Ireland || Green harp flag of Ireland.svg || Green harp flag
 * Wales || Flag of Wales 2.svg || Red dragon
 * }
 * Ireland || Green harp flag of Ireland.svg || Green harp flag
 * Wales || Flag of Wales 2.svg || Red dragon
 * }
 * }

But it also suggests South Africa used the red ensign, when the actually used the Oranje-Blanje-Blou (see below).

This report of the opening ceremony mentions (4th paragraph) "the flags and standards of the 11 competing countries" [emphasis added].

The podium photo above is from the Turofsky Gallery in the Canada sport Hall of Fame website. Annoyingly, the photos expected on the pages are missing, but I think they are the same as the listed in the site's Apache directory with 2008.44.99xx in the name. Many are also in Hamilton public library local history (category: IMDB >Collections >British Empire Games Album), which have better captions. Sadly, they're not in colour.

The following link to Turofsky photos with Hamilton public library captions:
 * "Team Managers After Receiving Flags Which Flew on Official Scoreboard During the Week"
 * "Flags of competing nations ready for presentation to team managers."
 * "Parade of the Competing Nations. England's Splendid Team" clearly marching behind the Union flag
 * "Parade of the Competing Nations. Scotland's Representatives" unclear whether it's the saltire or the lion, but I think there are curlicues at the edge and no white is visible, so I would say the lion.

The following Hamilton public library captions have no direct link:
 * "Parade of the Competing Nations. Eleven Teams in Column before Main Stand" [recordID 11153] the flag for Ireland could well be the green harp.
 * "Taking the amateur oath. Percy Williams, Of Canada, world's champion sprinter, takes the oath on behalf of the competitors" [recordID 11152] one of the flags visible behind Percy Williams is not a British ensign.
 * "Parade of the Competing Nations. Springboks of South Africa" [recordID 11136] clearly using the Oranje-Blanje-Blou Flag of South Africa (1928-1994).svg, not the red ensign South Africa Flag 1912-1928.svg.

The Welsh flag is just about visible behind New Zealand in this photo; it could well be the red dragon. According to this preview article, the order was to be "Newfoundland, Bermuda, British Guiana, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England and Canada"; dunno whether Wales skipped ahead of South Africa or New Zealand fell behind them. jnestorius(talk) 18:59, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * In fact, the "Flags of competing nations ready for presentation to team managers" clearly shows the Irish harp and Scottish lion (clearer on the larger Hamilton Public Library jpeg). One still can't tell whether the Irish flag has blue or green field. jnestorius(talk) 12:08, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

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When the host country is Canada. Show the province, not the country, in the intro
Though I disagree with showing the "province", in the intro. To avoid inconsistency (at least) among the Games (1954, 1978 & 1994) that had Canada as host? I've replaced the "country", with the "province". GoodDay (talk) 05:01, 17 August 2022 (UTC)