LONG BATTLE FOR REINSTATEMENT
A.A.A. Grants Appeal By Timaru Man
(New 7r n i nn ri Preri Association) WELLINGTON. April 2. After 10 years of negotiation, a 32-year-old Timaru man who rode in two races with a professional cycling club "without receiving sixpence" has been reinstated as a track athlete by the New Zealand Amateur Athletics Association. The man, Mr T. G. Myers, appeared last night before the association’s management committee.
Formerly a track athlete, Mr Myers when he was 22 bruised a heel and was advised by a masseur to take up cycling. He entered the only cycling club in Timaru. a professional body, but after riding in two races joined a newly-formed amateur club there. When he applied for amateur athletics and cycling reinstatement the national cycling body cleared him in 1951. but the national athletic association until last night had declined to do so.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28552, 3 April 1958, Page 6
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