SPORTING TROPHIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1926, Page 3

SPORTING TROPHIES

MISUSE OF ORDERS ALLEGED. (Special to “Star.”) WELLINGTON, November 25. “This sort of thing has been creeping into sport for some time past. A stop should be put to it,” said a member of the Manawatu Athletic SubCentre at a meeting, last night of that body at Palmerston North, when an account for two guineas was received from a local tradesman for goods supplied. The order was an open one, given to the first Manawatu competitor to finish in the recent road race from Palmerston to Wellington. It stipulated that the article supplied should be engraved. The tabulated items in the tradesman’s account as goods supplied to order -were two pairs socks, pair trousers, manicure set, and one collar stud (value 2d). The chairman of the meeting objected to the nature of the goods purchased in view of the fact that the order had stipulated engraving. The Secretary said that a competitor at Dunedin recently purchased a bicycle lamp with his order. • When an objection was raised by the authorities to the nature of the article, the competitor had his name engraved on the lamp, which he forwarded for inspection. Members recalled other local, instances where competitors had purchased groceries, while it was also mentioned in one case where it had been asked what part of the value of the order could be used to pay the. winner’s affiliation fee. One member said the object of the stipulation of engravable articles for the orders, was that a medal or some other such trinket should be obtained as the most suitable memento. The meeting agreed that a stop should be put to the sort of thing instanced, and in regard to the particular case under review, it resolved to advise the young man responsible that the account could not be passed as it stood.