Sportsman Of The Year
Sir,—Your paper this morning contained the news that a New Zealander, Barry Briggs, is runner-up for the Sportsman of the Year award in Great Britain. Briggs won the world speedway championship this year for the third time. Ronnie Moore, another New Zealander, has won this title twice. Hugh Anderson has won three or four world road racing championships, and Russell Wright has held the world’s absolute motor-cycle speed record. It is true that the 1966 New Zealand Sportsman of the Year did win his event at the Empire Games, but in world competition he would have been unlikely to finish in a major place. This year, as in 1965, the only sport in which New Zealand can boast an undisputed world champion is motor-cycling; one .wonders what criteria are used to select the Sportsman of the Year. Truly a prophet on a motor-cycle is without honour in his own country.—Yours, etc., B.S.A. 350 C.C. November 29, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31230, 30 November 1966, Page 16
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