OLYMPIC GAMES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20524, 18 April 1932, Page 11

OLYMPIC GAMES.

TRIALS FOR CYCLISTS. F. GROSE DECLINES TO TAKE PART. ' A statement that ho would not ride in the Olympic Trials at Wanganui on April 29th and 30th was made by Frank Grose on Saturday. Grose has taken, up the altitude adopted by - 1 -'- G. Broadway, Canterbury and New Zealand halt-mile flat champion, and J. W. Savidan, distance champion, who declined invitations to race at the trials at Wanganui. Grose stated that lie thought" the position over the selection of the Olympic team, and particularly over his own case, was rather a farce. He had, been advised by two of the selectors that they would not consider a track , cyclist for the team, because of the fact that he would be asked to ride on board tracks, upon which no- New Zealander had had experience. Although they would not send a track man, they wanted track trials in Wanganui. A man could not be a track rider and a road-racer at the same time. It had been proposed that he should ride in a road trial 7 on April 30th, from "Wanganui to -bevin. "It is impossible to get fit for a road trial in under two months," Grose said. He thought that a New. Zealand road rider would have a inuch better chance in the Games than a track man. Grose is still open for selection, and is very keen to make; the trip, which, he said, he had understood for the lastfour years would come his way.-Now the New Zealand Council was turning him down. , , "I may state that the case will p© referred'to a higher body than the Gycling Council," Grose concluded.