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Chapter 15. Sport and Youth. The sporting-movement in Denmark, the organised and on agitation based movement, is not more than 00 years old. Danish associations of rifle-corps and of athletic exerciees have existed for 50 years, b u t these organisations are only practicing the two kinds of sport mentioned and generally belong to tbe country. The sport, which has made Denmark known abroad, lias been organised by nDansk 1drccts-Forb unde (Danish Sport A ssociation). This organisation has its headquarter in Copenhagen and comprises special associations of the different kinds of sport, as Danish Athletic Association, Danish Union of Athletes, Danish, Amateur Boxing Union, Danish Ball-playing Union, Danish Fencing Association, Danish Association of Gymna­ stics, Danish Hockey Union, Danish Riding Association, Da­ nish Rowing Association, Danish Shooting Union, Danish Skating Union, Danish Swimming and Life-saving Associa­ tion, besides different associations outside the unions as the Copenhagen Golf-Club and the Association for Winter-sport. The different special associations again are divided into districts of the different parts of the country, Copenhagen being one. They are in every way independent of the Danish Sport Association as well here as abroad, but the large asso­ ciation is the representative of the Danish Sport in Denmark and a t the big international meetings. On Jamm y 1st 1925 the Danish Sport Association com­ prised 776 special associations all over the country, though chiefly in the towns, witli an aggregate number of members of about 100,000. This number, although being quite conside­ rable, is far from being the real standard of the love of sport of the Danish people. Besides the 100,000 young men and women, practising the different kinds of sport inside the associations mentioned, there is no end to the number of smaller associations and societies, especially in Copenhagen

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