NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 250, 21 October 1932, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION.

PRAISE FOR AUCKLANDERS. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic and Cycling Association will be held at Wellington on November 21. The report states that great pleasure is taken in reviewing a year that finished with the association joining with other national bodies in sending to the greatest Olympic Games so far held the biggest team that has ever left New Zealand to compete at the Games. It was gratifying, the report states, to bo able to record a satisfactory settlement of the long-standing dispute over the control of cycling. Athletics for women had made substantial progress. There had been suggestions that separate control by the women themselves was desirable. In the Olympic Games the efforts of A. J. Elliott and J. W. Savidan were particularly worthy of note. Both these athletes showed their capabilities to compete against the world's best and Savidan proted himself the finest distance runner in the Empire. The association was honoured by the selection of three members of its team. Elliott, Savidan and J. E. Lovelock (the New Zealand Rhodes scholar at Oxford) to represent the Empire against the United States. Each acquitted himself with credit and enhanced his established reputation. During the season the following performances had been passed as establishing a new or equalling the existing record for the Dominion :—looyds ladies, 11 l-ss, Miss T. Kench; 100 yds, "J 4-os, A. J. Elliott; 440 yds, 4S 4-ss, S. A. Black; hop, step and jump, 47ft 4Jin. A. A. Cameron ; pole vault, lift 4Jin, J. W. Batstone.