RECEPTION TO RETURNED ATHLETES.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Is the report true that Geo. Smith returned from Melbourne, after achieving such brilliant victories, without a single representative of the Athletic Club meeting him to welcome and congratulate him on behalf of the whole of the amateurs of New Zealand? I am loth to believe this; but if it be true, then I am not surprised that amateur athletics are at such a low ebb in Auckland Here is a man who for months deprives himself of many personal pleasures in order to worthily represent his colony at the old Olympian games, achieves success beyond all anticipations, and how he is received by his countrymen and the strangers with whom he temporarily sojourned? His countrymen's welcome was an absolute forgetfnlness! of his existence. The strangers robbed him of his boots, pants and singlet, tore them in shreds so that many might have a small souvenir of tie man who came a stranger among them and broke a world's record- What a contrast!—l am. etc., EX-VICE PRESIDENT.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 February 1904, Page 2
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