PLAN PUT TO N.Z. OFFICIALS West Germany Would Send Best Athletes

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31836, 14 November 1968, Page 15

PLAN PUT TO N.Z. OFFICIALS West Germany Would Send Best Athletes

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. Dr M. Danz, vice-president of the German National Olympic Committee, has guaranteed that West Germany would send three of her best athletes to Australia and New Zealand for a tour early next year if certain conditions he proposed were met by Australia and New Zealand.

The conditions proposed by Dr Danz, who is also president of the German Athletic Union, are that Australia and New Zealand pay the travel costs of one athlete each.

! If this is acceptable to the amatuer athletic association ' of the two countries and each country guarantees to make the three athletes guests J while they are in each country, West Germany will pay ) the fare of the third athlete. [ To Be Discussed This proposal will be plac-) [ ed before the annual general [ meeting of the New Zealand I 1 Amateur Athletic Association ! ) on November 22. Dr Danz will put the same proposal to a member of the Australian association sugj gested to him by Mr A. D. [ Rowse, president of the New ' Zealand association. Dr Danz, who was on his way home from Mexico, is

accompanied by Dr Paul Laven, a newspaper, television, radio journalist. Two world-class West German runners are Bodo Turnmler ’ and Harold Norpoth, who finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the Mexico City Olympic Games. Dr Danz, a member of the European Committee of the 1.A.A.F., is also a member of the organising committee for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

In his youth he was a noted 800 metres and 1500 metres runner. In 1930 he defeated the world 800 metres champion, Sera Martin, and the 150 metres man Sula Ladou ; megue (France). As a member of the German Olympic team he was sixth in the final of the 800 i metres in the Los Angeles) Olympic Games, 1932. Building Stadium “Munich has no big! stadium, so we will build one [ for the Games which will ful- [ fill a great need of the city,” . said Dr Danz. * I “Munich will be more suc- [ cessful than Mexico. The ) Olympics must grow in the [future and so must the ideas I of Baron de Coubertin. “I hope that all nations will [ be in the Games in-1972 and [ that every athlete, whether | black or white, will get his fair chance.” I “Germany has a revolutionI ary plan for the Munich [ Gaines,” said Dr Danz. “All

the sporting facilities will be centralised and not spread as they were in Mexico City. One point over which both men expressed disappointment was that there is no rowing in West German schools, as there is in New Zealand.

Hole-in*one. — C. C. Leahy holed his tee shot at the 141 yard thirteenth hole at Charteris Bay (Bull Gully) using a seven iron.