SLIP CARR'S RETURN.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 305, 24 December 1924, Page 5

SLIP CARR'S RETURN.

WARM PRAISE FOR PORRXTT. IRISH FINE SPORTS. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Brown-skinned and looking the picture of health and fitness, E. W. ("Slip") Carr, the famous Australian sprinter, stepped off the Mannganui today to spend a few hours at his disposal in' renewing acquaintance with friends in Wellington after an extended tour of the Continent. Carr is returning to the Commonwealth. During his travels abroad he has visited many countries, including England, France, Germany, and Czecho-Slovakia, but the place where he most enjoyed himself, and where he struck hie best form, was in Dublin, Ireland,-at the historic Tailteann Games. "Irish," he said to-day, "I claes with New Zealanders and Australians as the best sports in the world. They gave mc a great time and made mc feel absolutely at homo. "If there is one man of whom New Zealanders should bo proud," lie continued, "it is Arthur Porritt, tho univer- . sity man." Carr said he toured Europe with the Now Zealand Rhodes Scholar, and could not find suitable words of praise for the Maorilandcr. "At the Olympic Games," he Raid, "Porritt ran a splendid race, and I think that properly managed he will develop into a real world's champion." Regarding the control of the Olympic Games Carr has little to Bay, except to state his emphatic opinion that the world's meeting should he continued and supported by all nations. At the last meptine there were a few "little incidents," but whon one realised the enormous size of tlio undertaking it wae easy to understand flint such happeninps could not he avoided. Aβ to his activities in future Canis not at all certain, but at present he feels that he would like to retire from competitive running. '