NEW ZEALAND CYCLISTS
BOND NOT SIGNED SYDNEY, 9th February. The “Sydney Sun” says that neither the Australian nor the New Zealand cyclists signed the £SO bond before they competed in the cycling events at the Empire Games last night.
A message on 4th February stated: The New Zealand Empire Games cyclists have created a surpiise by flatly refusing to sign an agreement involving a bond of £SO debarring them from turning professional within two years. Frank Grose, however, is reported to have signed the agreement on the voyage to Australia. The remaining six are adamant. They declare that it would have beeen a different matter had they been informed of the obligation before they left New Zealand, which might have prevented them from undertaking the trip. The spokesman for the team said: “We have no thought of turning professional, but we do not think we should be bound down. Also, we resent the fact that the demand comes, not from the New Zealand Empire Games Committee, but from the New Zealand Cyclists’ Association. “We don’t say we won’t ride on Tuesday night. We are all in tip-top form, but even if it means that we will be packed off home, we are determined not to sign.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 February 1938, Page 8
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