POIGNANT STORY.
FRUSTRATED HOPE.
AMBITION OF CYCLIST. CHANCES RUINED BT WAR, (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PAEROA, this day.
A poignant story of frustrated ambition lies behind the donation of a handsome cup to a member of the Paeroa Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club.
Signing himself "Wanderer," the donor of the cup. which is for presentation to the junior cycle champion, G.
Mearns, told the club by letter that he wished to remain anonymous. Before the Great War, lie said, his ambition had been to represent New Zealand as a cyclist, but the war had ruined any chance lie might have had to realise that ambition. .
He was now wandering from place to place, doing odd jobs. Since he was about to leave Paeroa, he had decided to invest what money he had left in a cup for the young cyclist, in whom he saw grea.t promise.
"I feel it an honour," he wrote, "to spend my last few bob on a cup for such an undeveloped rider, a lad who fights every inch of the way even when he lias the race 'in his pocket." I would like to see a good rider take this boy under his charge and give him the opportunity he deserves.
"I sincerely hope your committee will realise what such a. find as your junior rider will mean to your club in two or three years' time, after he has had the opportunity to develop his riding."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 11
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