OLYMPIC GAMES.
PROTEST FROM OTAGO. SWIMMING COUNCIL CRITICISED. (By Telegraph—Special to "Star.") DUNEDIN, tliis day. The "Evening Star's" swimming writer says: "Considerable sill-prise and regret will be felt in swimming circles throughout the Dominion that the New "Zealand Swimming Council has not seen fit to nominate the young Qtago swimmer Peter Mathieson for the 100 metres backstroke event at the Olympic Games. The council's lack of vision is to be <deplored; and Mathieson and the Otago centre have every reason to feel most aggrieved that the council had not even seen fit to send his name forward to the Olympic Association.
"The matter should not rest here, and a strong protest should be voiced to the New Zealand Swimming Council before the Olympic Association's annual meeting on Monday next. The whole system of Olympic selection in the Dominion, is of a most .haphazard nature, but the New Zealand Swimming Council had a good deal more to go by respecting Mathicson's performances than some of the other national organisations did concerning their candidates."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 72, 25 March 1936, Page 16
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172OLYMPIC GAMES. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 72, 25 March 1936, Page 16
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