Cycling Council Lifts Suspension On Tabak

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31307, 1 March 1967, Page 18

Cycling Council Lifts Suspension On Tabak

“The Press’* Special Service

WELLINGTON. The Amateur Cycling Association’s national council last evening lifted the suspension it had placed on the international rider, T. J. Tabak.

After a lengthy discussion in committee, the chairman, Mr T. D. Duff, reported that, by attending the meeting, Tabak was released from further suspension, “and that the Jamaica business was completed.”

UU3IIIVO3 TTUJ VVUIfJIS It had been alleged that Tabak was guilty of misbehaviour during the Jamaican Commonwealth Games.

Tabak will now receive the same type of letter as sent to his Commonwealth Games team-mate, D. A. Comparini, being told that he is reprimanded for his “alleged” behaviour. Southland voted against the case being heard in committee. Tabak was also advised that he can compete in the New Zealand hard track championships in Auckland next week.

notwithstanding the fact that the entries have already closed. He had been suspended for failing to appear at the January meeting of the council

when requested to do so. His defence then was that he could not afford to travel and that in any case, he did not know the actual charges being made against him. “I am still none the wiser,” Tabak said after last evening’s meeting. “They were only allegations, there was nothing positive at all. “I’m very glad to have cleared my name but I still can’t see why I had to pay at least £3O to get here and go away still in the dark.” Not Defending Title Although his suspension has been lifted Tabak will not compete in the hard track titles at Western Springs, Auckland. Tabak said yesterday before he left Christchurch for the council’s meeting in Wellington that he was not racing fit and could not contemplate defending his national individual pursuit title or riding in the Canterbury senior pursuit team, which will also be defending a title. He had not raced for more than a month, said Tabak.