FRUIT AND GIFTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 October 1924, Page 7

FRUIT AND GIFTS

. ; ,♦ ' ■■ . GERMANS WELCOME CARR. LONDON, Sept. 19. The Australian sprinter, E. W. (“Slip”) Carr, has returned to London, and intends accompanying the.' New Zealand runner A. E. Porritt on a week’s skiing trip to Norway as guests of a Norwegian who was a colleague of Porritt at Oxford. . “Our Continental running tour was extremely interesting, and we were wel 1 : received everyvvhere, ” said Canto the special representative of the Sun. ‘ ‘Porritt and myself pent to Berlin, Duisberg, Duseeldorf, Cologne, Prague. Prom there Porritt proceeded to Warsaw, while I returned to Berlin and then to Hamburg. “Except when we met- Houbin, the German champion, and also Pillser, a distance runner,, Porritt and myself were chiefly racing each I 'other. “My leg (.snapped in the 100 metres race at Prague, and I could not compete in any further races. Despite my leg trouble, however, I wanted tc see Hamburg,..aiid. foplishly raced there, and rah 'a risk of defeat by secondclass runners, but I just beat them. “The German crowds welcomed me in good sporting spirit, and everj town pressed gifts of fruit and usefu' articles on me. I am certain thaf Houbiii and Pillser would have made e good impression at the Olympiad. The Germans are hoping that they will be admitted to the Olympic Games h: 1928. ' “There are a lot of young athlete* of both sexes receiving encourageiiieni from the sporting clubs. They stall training at the. age ;of eight years.”