FRANCE WILL MEET URUGUAY
— Gautier-Chaumet | 30/05/1924 —

The draw for the quarter-finals took place yesterday at the headquarters of the Olympic Committee. We were unlucky this time. As the song says: Ça n'peut pas durer toujours. We come across Uruguay, the France and Uruguay bulletins were the last to come out of the ballot box. We are no less well served.

Does this mean that we should become discouraged and declare ourselves defeated in advance? It would be to despair of sport and the French character.

We are counting on you, tricolores players, to come together between now and Sunday, to summon up your energy, your courage and your will to win. It is precisely by the magnitude of the task assigned to you that we will judge your real qualities. I quoted two days ago: "A vaincre sans péril". I say to you today that in the face of an extremely formidable opponent, not only for you but for the best, you will have the opportunity to show us the limit of your strength, to prove to us that the three-coloured jersey that you have the honour of wearing covers hearts that know no fear. With a normal rhythm, these hearts will send into your veins the generous blood of our race, which has so often already made up for the qualities we lacked with its ardour.