OLYMPIC GAMES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1935, Page 6

OLYMPIC GAMES

!: NEW ZEALAND'S TEAM

|f QUESTION OF MAnlger

j;>- The council of the New Zealand jj Olympic and British Empire Games ; Association has Called for nominations ,'ifrom the various national sports |-;j bodies for representatives of New Zea-.1 Inland at the Olympic; Carries,.^"be held: .yi. at Berlin in August'-of; "next 'year. | > Present indicatiphs,'ar.fe that the team is' , likely to be smalliqn.whicft-:' event it »;may not be necessary for the council tto consider the question of the aptipointment of a manager; ' : «;;; One nomination for the post of '^manager, that of Mr. E. C. Isaacs, Or i;; Dunedin, has already been sent foi'- *| -ward. On two previous occasions Mr. LA. D. Bayfeild, of Wellington, who is i .J well known in rowing circles, and is a j\member of the New Zealand/Olympic j.: Council, has been ~ inyited to'.manaige j'.New Zealand tearnsJ^He was asked if i)he. tvojild be^aMlable'^for^.the manj i-agershlp of ~th.ei itearn thaCrepresented , New Zealand•"•■at*tHe 1930;;JBr,itish Em- ; pire Games iKiSahada, anij" also for the ) position (jf;:iftahager 6ti the^932 Olym- ; ;p;c team^bjit^pwing -tot,'business ties 1 he was un'^bl^tp-accept^either invitation. 'U'i'.^X^t...,-:- £*.'• '*i'v 1' Exceptiortallqua^ttes-are'reijuired in, ~,a manager of'atx*^)lympic..Games team, t'il'if he is to makeia' suec'ess%pf^the posi;,tion, and it is Widely.feiiogriisied by;all. •;who know him, prfthave;,"so.rne know-; '.ledge of the man/ that^Mr. -Bayfeild ''should fill the billCadmirablyf '-■' .:■. :v :: " Mr. Bayfeild by a'; ;"Post" reporter ;if he i ;^voul(|; v be;:avail-' (able in the eventi!of?aVnianager;-;being1! ; required for Ne^v^i'filanU's'vifearn* next! ? year... His reply^agithat;::hii?had lib'ft J.yeall^; donsidered;Hh^r;';rnatWrj'/but 'in? \iri&H!fipt the longl absence ? iforn' Weli,liri^"tpn that .'ivOuld' ib^ite'duired fpr' ■; such-'.'a' trip,, it a^,4r ed'.iUA^ilrely that' i he'^duld be aV*lla'bi^:;^H *'■■'■■