COLEMAN’S WALKING STYLE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 March 1935, Page 5

COLEMAN’S WALKING STYLE

PICTURES TO BE TAKEN. SUGGESTION TO N.Z. COUNCIL. In order to decide whether or not O. W. Coleman walks fairly, the West Coast Amateur Athletic Centre Executive decided last night to write to the New Zealand Council of the Association asking that moving pictures be taken of him in action in Wellington before the judges who were present when he was disqualified at Wanganui. The matter came up for discussion when a ;l;etter was Head fr’om Mr L. 11. Clapham, who had acted! as the team’s manager at the New Zealand championship meeting. The letter laid down the following conditions: (1) The trial to be held at Wellington, Coleman to walk in the presence of the judges who attended at the last two New Zealand championship meetings. (2) Two cameras, three if possible, to take continuous moving pictures, the judges to give their separate opinions in writing of his faults, or their reasons why he is not wallring fairly. Those reasons are to lie given during the trial and not left until the picture is screened. (3) Coleman will walk any distance including a quarter mile in time near 1-J- minutes ,to prove he is anxious to do his bit. (c) Coleman will pay his own «. xpenses and half, or whole, if necessary, of the pictures. (-5) If possible to have Driscoll and any other walkers present to show the difference in stylo and to show that Coleman has not altered since the New Zealand championships and also to show that there is no “loafing” as falas Coleman is concerned. The letter concluded by stating that the cost to the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association would be nothing, and if adopted would prove that the Coleman brothers are either not walkers or are in a class by themselves and worthy of a trip to the Olympic Games. Mr A. Grant said that the competitors were either walking or were not walking, and if the latter, they had better give it up altogether. Mr Clapham: Coleman was disqualified only when he won. He has received a certificate for, being second in an event walked in faster time tlian that recorded at Wanganui. It was agreed to ask that the New Zealand Council arrange for the trial to be made.