SWIMMERS INDIGNANT.

Grey River Argus, 8 December 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

SWIMMERS INDIGNANT.

OLYMPIC GAMES TRIP. STATEMENT DEMAND ED. Definite complaints against the treatment of the Olympic swimmers on tour to Europe were before the New Zealand Swimming Council at the annual meeting. The secretary (Mr B. O'Neill) produced correspondence which showed that it had been arranged for Mr J. Hodgson, the council’s representative in England,, to accompany the team to Amsterdam to look after the swimmers. Mr O’Neill sni i Mr Amos agreed with this plan.

The council had before it a repor from Mr Hodgson. It stated that M

Amos had ignored him and the swiminers wore given no reasonable chance for proper training. Air Hodgson stated in his ’otter that he was ex duiled from th? official party to Am-

sterdam and that there the ladies wore left to train in a. “filthy, oily dock." At the gamov ho learned that the dock had earned the name of “typhoid pool" owing to the odour and nasty taste of the water. The American and German swimmers were forbidden to train there. Mr O’Neill said the Swimming Association and Hodgson had been submitted to a series of indignities which would not be accepted without the liveliest resentment. Had the Swimming Association known that the swimmers would have suffered under the handi caps which Air Amo ’s management permitted it would not have allowed the team to depart. The council decided to demand a full and immediate statement from Mr Amos and the Olympic Council, ami further action was deferred meantime.