WELL SATISFIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 72, 27 March 1939, Page 10

WELL SATISFIED.

MISS NORMAN'S TOUR.

WILL REST IN SYDNEY.

OLYMPIC GAMES HOPES.

Well satisfied with her performances in New Zealand—she considers that at C'arlaw Park on Saturday ehe produced her real form—Mies Decima Norman, Weet Australian athlete, leaves Auckland this evening to join the Awatoa in Wellington. Though Mies Norman's home is in Perth, she ie going only as far ae Sydney, where she k to enter into business. She intends to have a six months' rest from athletics.

Considering the condition of the tracks she hae run on and the times ehe has recorded, the visitor thinks that her running is as good as when ehe burst into the Empire Uamee limelight in Pebruary, 1938, by winning the 100 yards, 220 yarde and broad jump titles. The tracks at Morrinsville, Paeroa and Otahuhu were favourably commented upon by the visitor, but Car law Park, ehe said, was poor as a ground for athletic sports. Australian tracks were harder and faster than those ehe ran on in the Auckland Province.

"I still hope to improve my running," said Micss Xorman this morning. "And I think my Sydney trainer, Pat Walsh, who prepared Jimmy Carlton and other champions, will effect improvement of my style in the running of a race. But it will be six months before I start getting into form again. I need a rest. Then I will get ready for the Australian championships early in 1940, which are the preliminary for the Olympic Games selection. This is my first trip out of Australia. Naturally I have hopee of being selected in the Australian team for Finland, but that all depends on my form next vear.

Miss Norman, who is slight of stature, save that ehe has put on weight in New Zealand and she now weighs just over Bst. She is lift 2in in height, She would have liked to stay in Auckland until the end of the week, but her three weeks' period, the limit an athlete is allowed by the federation to stay in another country without an extension, expired to-day.

The visitor mentioned that Miee Doreen Lumley had made remarkable improvement since the pair last met at the Empire Games. There were a number of other New Zealand women athletes of promise, who would do better'with improved training, she added.

Mrs. D. Magee, secretary of the Australian Women's Amateur Athletio Union, who acted a« chaperon, will accompany JVlitw Norman to Sydney. She mentioned that women control athletics for their sex in Australia and the whole of the executive, of which she is secretary, are women.