“KILLING ITINERARY”
TOURING SWIMMERS
STRONG SYDNEY PROTESTS
Unitea Brass Association —Bj Electric Telegraph
Copyright.) Received 2.45 p.m. to-day. SYDNEY, Jan. ;).
The “Gtiardian’s”. swimming writer .says that the charges ot cliscoiirtesy and ungentlemanly conduct made by the Ashburton Swimming Association against Ryan and Griffiths have aioused a ,storm protest in Sydney. Air Dexter, chairman of rhe -New South Wales Swimming Association, says that evidently the Ashburton association is under the impression the swimmers had approved of the itinerary' mapped out. “Such is not the case and blame must be laid at the door of the New Zealand Swimming Association.” lie saidRyan’s coach, Air Harp, considers that Ryan and Griffiths have been scandalously treated by both the New Zealand Swimming Association and tho Australian Swimming Union. Air AlacDonald, secretary of the N.S.W. Association said: “I have no hesitation in saying that nowhere else; in the world would a controlling body impose such a killing itinerary on athletes as New Zealand-, asked. Ryan and Griffiths to carry through in the course of a tour lasting 37 days, including five Sundays. The swimmers were called on to appear at no fewer than 25 carnivals and eight, of the days on which they did not swim were spent in travelling.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 9 January 1930, Page 9
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