OLYMPIC GAMES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1932, Page 13

OLYMPIC GAMES.

TRIALS FOR CYCLISTS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day

The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association decided last evening to hold cycling trials for the selection of the Olympic Games team at Wanganui on April 29 and April 30. The trials will include two track events on a banked track at Cook',s Gardens on April 29, and a road trial from Wanganui to Levin on April 30. The nominations received for the trials were:— Auckland. —H. O. Browne, H. V. Gordon and I. C. Laloli (track), and M. P. Byrnes, H. R. Dwight and R. G. Foubister (road). Canterbury.—T. O'Brien and F. J. Grose. West Coast (North Island).—A. Hanson. Wellington.—L. Roberts and R. Ulmer. The Canterbury Centre forwarded the following motion, which had been passed by the centre:—"That the council be informed that our objections to the Olympic cycling trials were made in ignorance of the recommendations of the Cycling Conference at Auckland, and, in view of this, we accede to the proposals to hold the trials."

The Otago Centre wrote stating that it was not in agreement with the council's decision in regard to the New Zealand cycling champion, Grose, being omitted, 'it was decided to reply that the selection of the team would depend upon the results of the trials at Wanganui. The Union Cvcliste Internationale, of Paris, notified that the affiliation of the New Zealand Cycling Federation to govern amateur and professional cycling in New Zealand had been approved by the congress. The New Zealand Federation had been given two votes.