VISITING SWIMMERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1930, Page 11

VISITING SWIMMERS

SCANDALOUS TREATMENT

. PROTESTS IN SYDNEY United l'ress Association—By Electric Tclograph—Copyright. (Received Dth January, 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The "Daily Guardian's" swimming writer says that charges of discourtesy and inigentlemaiily conduct made by the Ashburton Swimming Association against the Australian swimmers, Ryan and Griffiths, have aroused a storm of protest in Sydney. Mr> Dexter, chairman of tho New South Wales Swimming Association, says that evidently the Ashburton Association was under the impression that the swimmers had approved of the itinerary mapped out. Such was not the case, and the blame must be laid at the door of the-' New Zealand Swimming Association. Ryan's coach, Hay, considers that Ryan and Griffiths have been scandalously treated by both .the New Zealand Swimming Association and the Australian Swimming Union. Mr. Macdonald, secretary of tho New South Wales Association, said: "Ihave no hesitation in saying that nowhere else in the- world would a controlling body impose such a killing itinerary on athletes as in New Zealand. They asked Griffiths \and Ryan to carry through a tour lasting thirty-seven days, including five Sundays, the swimmers appearing in no fewer than twenty-fivo carnivals, and on the eight days on which they did not swim they were travelling."