WHY WASTE POSTAGE IN WRITING TO SWEDEN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 145, 21 June 1941, Page 6 (Supplement)

WHY WASTE POSTAGE IN WRITING TO SWEDEN

After still another unnecessary debate on the subject, members of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Council have weakly allowed themselves to be talked into further action on the claim by the Otago distance runner, G. L. Austin, for a 15-mile record. . Having already decided that on no account could it allow the claim, the council will now apply to the International Amateur Athletic Federa lion, with headquarters in Sweden, for a ruling as to whether it, by any chance, grants records in one-man races, says the "Star-Sun." One argument brought up in favour of this course was the fact, conveniently recalled by someone, that S. C. Wooderson's mile record had been established in a speciallyframed handicap race. Surely it should be apparent that a speciallyframed handicap is not a one-man race. The rule says clearly that o record must be established in a "competition." Nothing can get round or evade that rule, and there is no need to write to Sweden at all.