COMPETITION NEEDED

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 8

COMPETITION NEEDED

NEW ZEALAND ATHLETES 'COMMENT FROM AMERICA Per Press Association. Wellington, Oct vber, 4Communt on the perbfrma races oi New Zealand athletes competing at the Olympic Games is made liy Mi C. G. Krogness, representative of the N.Z. A.A.A. in the United States, in a lot er read tut a meeting oi (he .-sedation last evening. , ‘I think your representatives did vc:y well, especially Savidan am Ellii it. In fact they did- liettcr in their events than I expected the? would do when I considered the com pc iitioir they would meet. Savidan in the -500-metre and the lO.OOC metre runs did an exceedingly fine piece of running. If you had been there and seen the, field strung out la-hind and most of tile tini.e he was in fifth and fourth place right up with file leaders, y m would have been pr “lid of him. Likewise with Eliott in the sprints; when you col idor those who foiled in the eliminta tion where he succeeded and qualified yen will get a pic-fun of. the fighting spirit he displayed with wliic he qualified in Ids heats. 1 AVlmf your boy s need in my opinion i s more competition," Mr ivrogness continued “They need strong and frequent competition,, and u.q fhr C nnpotition they encounter under the handicapping system prevalhni in New Zealand track events. If your prospective athletes do wit obtain the competition they require for their development into Olympic Gahttes prospects for Berlin in 1936 in Ihe four years ahead, 1 believe vAu will have n. greater disappointment coming to you (lien than, has come to yon now.