ATHLETIC DISPUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1926, Page 7

ATHLETIC DISPUTE

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —In connection with: my difference with the president of the New Zealand Amateur. Athletic Association, may I encroach on your forbearance to point out that your necessarily condensed report of the special meeting of the: council of thatbody held on Monday last did not clearly bring out the special point on which the West Coast (N. 1.) Centre, which I had the privilege to represent, based its protest against the resolution of suspension. Immediately following my remark that the council was' acting in ' the matter of tours by overseas athletics "like an enterprising showman," the president ruled, as reported by the Press,' as follows:— "I am not going to tolerate that kind of thing. You will either withdraw your remarks, Mr. Wilton, or take no further part in the meeting." That hasty ruling appeared to me to be so extreme in comparison with my alleged offence that I lodged a protest, which was overruled. I thereupon exercised the option which was given to me, and took no further part in the meeting. I now maintain that no amount of special pleading or raising of irrelevant issues can justify my suspension for allegedly failing to obey the ruling of tho chair. The decision of the meeting is, in my opinion, so opposed to the accepted standards of justice and fair play that I have ; informed, my centre that in no circumstances will I renew my connection with at the point, observing the action of suspension is expunged from its records.— I am, etc., ! PRANK WILTON. 18th November, 1926.