OLYMPIC GAMES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 172, 21 April 1928, Page 8

OLYMPIC GAMES

4 THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM AT LEAST SEVENTEEN TO BE SENT (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Sydney, April 20. The Olympic Federal Executive has decided to send at least seventeen of the selected members of the Australian team to the Amsterdam Games. Invitations are being sent to-day. Grier (Queensland) anti Jones (West Australia) drop out of the original nineteen, but Winter, winner of the hop, step and jump at the last Games, will, if he survives another test next week, be almost certainly included. The team then will be: — H. It. Pearce (N.? W.), rowing. J. Carlton, C. S. Stuart, A. W. Winter, Aliss E. Itobinson (N.S.W.), W. Whyte (Victoria), track athletes. % A E. Ford (N.S.W.). T. 11. Norris and Bolger (Victoria), wrestling. A. Al. Charlton, Aliases Bonnie Mealing, Edna Davey (N.S.W.), T. Burt, Aliss D. Thompson (Queensland), swimming. J. Standen, D. Gray (N.S.W.), cycling. THE OLYMPIC MARATHON UNITED STATES’ HOPES RAISED (United Service.) (Itec. April 20, 7.30 p.m.) New York, April 19. At Boston, Clarence Demar, aged 39, won the American Alarathon for the sixth time, in 2 hours 37 minutes 7 seconds. The victory is the greatest in his career, as he outdistanced the finest field of track athletes ever assembled in America. The United States' hopes for the Olympic Alarathon are considerably raised by Demur's masterful allowing. CANDIDATES’ ARRANGEMENTS

New Zealand’s representatives for the Olympic Games at Amsterdam, who are to leave for London via Panama by the Reinue.ra on Saturday next, will travel under the aegis of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son, who have already made arrangements for their accommodation both in London and Amsterdam. It may answer criticism from certain quar-

ters for the public to learn that Cleverley, the boxer, and Moorhouse, the swimmer, are arranging their own passages to the Home country. The official travelling party will consist of nine persons, as follow:—Misses Wilson (runner), Staveley and Miller (swimmers), Messrs. Morgan and Cleverley (boxers), and Moorhouse (swimmer), with Mr. H. Amos (manager) and his wife. Mrs. Miller, mother of Miss Kathleen Miller, will travel with her daughter. The team will be absent from New eZaland for six month.

Already Messrs Thomas Cook and Son, acting with Dr. Porritt (who is also to represent New Zealand as a runner), .and who is a resident of the Old Cbuutry at present, have arranged for a suitable training ground for the team in a London suburb, approximate to water, so that the swimmers may get in their final training. Quarters have already been booked for them in London.

The Games will commence jn Amsterdam on July 28, and will continue to August 12, and it is expected that the team will leave London for Holland about the middle of July, so as to get used to their new quarters, and become familiar with the testing ground. The male members of the team are to stav at the Lloyd Hotel, in Amsterdam, which the'British Olympic Association has taken over in its entirety for the accommodation of representatives of Great Britain and the overseas Dominions. The lady members are .to reside at ’. the American Hotel, Amsterdam. Late in August the team will take part in the Tailteann Games in Ireland. So as to vary the route, arrangements mav be made for the team to return to New

Zealand bv wav of South Africa, instead of returning through the Panama Canal (the ordinary route of the direct.steamers to New Zealand). They will leave London for New Zealand earlv in September, arriving here about tire end of October. MRS. MILLER TO ACCOMPANY DAUGHTER BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION Dunedin. April 20. Airs. Miller has decided to accompany her daughter, Miss Kathleen Miller, to the Olympic Games, paying her own expenses. provided that she is attached to the official party.