ATHLETICS.
VISIT OF AMERICAN TEAM ABANDONED. MEETING OF NURMI AND ROSE SUGGESTED. (UY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 8. The council of the Amateur Athletic Association lias decided-, in view of the haggling over terms by some of the centres, who refuse to look it matters from a national point of view, to abandon the proposed visit of the; American athletic. team.
The Wairarapa centre wrote urging the council to arrange a meeting between Nurmi and Rose in any part of the world, preferably New Zealand or Australia, and guaranteeing their quota of the expense. The council replied that it-was already acting in the matter, and proposes to ask the Government to instruct the High -Commissioner to -ascertain if Nurmi will syisit New Zealand.
It was decided to hold a 50-mile road cycling championship at Gisborne bn Octbber 22. .
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 September 1925, Page 3
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