ATHLETIC TOUR

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 11

ATHLETIC TOUR

I Australians for N.Z. N.S.W. “IN THE DARK” Sydney, December 14. “We are completely in the dark over the whole matter,” said Mr. R. Heathwood, secretary of the Amateur Athletic Association of New South Wales, when asked whether permission would bg granted Jack Metcalfe and "Teddy” Hampson to go to New Zealand. News from New Zealand indicated that extensive preparations have been made for a tour by Metcalfe, Hampson, and the Tasmanian E. Barwick. It is understood that the Amateur Athletic Uniop of Australia has sanctioned the tour, but the New South Wales authorities have received no word of the arrangements, and officials are indignant that the Australian Union should have gone over their heads.

“We must as a national body communicate with the national body, which is the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia,” said Mr. L. A. Tracy, secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, commenting on the message yesterday. “We have done that, and have received an official reply, giving consent for the tour and an extension of the ride restricting tours' to twenty-one days.” As to whether the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia had consulted the New South Wales Association, that was a matter, Mr. Tracy added, which had nothing to do with the N.Z.A.A.A.