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took part and this praise has been matched by the great financial
success of the championships.
Our own School Meals Service performed magnificently in
feeding nearly three thousand people, and the quality of food
produced was the subject of many compliments.
Medical supervision was provided by the London Borough of
Bromley School Health Service.
The teamwork of all the teachers from Bromley, Bexley and
Kent was more than equal to this enormous task and its unqualified
success is indicative of the standard achieved.
Finally, a packed stadium of fifteen thousand young people
watched athletics with rapt attention for two days. Not a performance
escaped their careful gaze, nothing of merit was allowed
to pass uncheered, and yet not a Sunday paper could mention
that fifteen thousand youngsters could sit through two intense
days of sport without causing the slightest disturbance. Perhaps
this meeting gives the lie to adult criticism of young people and
reveals more surely their true calibre.