Clarence Hadfield D'Arcy - Inter-Allied Games

Inter-Allied Games

In the same month, at the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, Hadfield easily disposed of the opposition. Marshal Pétain, the French commander in chief, presented gold stop-watches to the two men he considered to be the outstanding competitors at the games and both went to New Zealanders. Hadfield received one, the other going to Dan Mason, a middle-distance runner from Kamo. When the New Zealand rowing championships were resumed in 1920, Hadfield won the single sculls and the doubles with A. White. It came as no surprise when he was chosen to represent New Zealand in the single sculls at the 1920 Olympic Games at Antwerp.

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