Runner Attacks Officials
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 25 The English runner, Derek Johnson, today attacked British athletic officialdom and said he would not run again for Britain until "the British Amateur Athletic Board stop treating athletes as a bunch of nice but half-witted performing monkeys," according to the "Evening News.”
The newspaper said ne wrote an 800-word letter to the board saying; “My exclusion in favour of Brian Hewson in the 800 metres against France had nothing to do with my decision to decline to run against Finland. It was much rather Gordon Pirie’s selection in the steeplechase which led me to my decision.’
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28702, 27 September 1958, Page 7
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105Runner Attacks Officials Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28702, 27 September 1958, Page 7
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