CONTROL OF CYCLING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 17

CONTROL OF CYCLING

PROTEST TO FEDERATION PROSPECT OF WITHDRAWAL [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday A letter lias been forwarded by the Cycling Council to the New Zealand Cycling Federation at Christ-church, which the council desires to be accepted as a considered opinion, and in the nature of an ultimatum. Failing tho acceptance of tho proposals which tho letter contains, the council will recommend amateur cycling bodies throughout New Zealand to persist in seeking separate recognition, and, in the meantime, to disregard the federation. The letter says, inter alia:—"With regard to the future, unless and until something is agreed to, which, in tho opinion of this council, would make the administration of amateur cycling satisfactory, it does not intend to cooperate with the federation. The council is of tho opinion that a serious mistake was made by tho Union Cycliste Internationalo when it applied to New Zealand conditions apparently a rule in other and larger countries that one body should control both professionals and amateurs. Amateur cyclists in New Zealand did not ask for it and did not want it. So far as is known, the professional section also did not want it. Two years' trial of the system had now been given, and, in tho opinion of the council, it had been found wanting." The letter, however, suggests lines on which retention of supreme control by tho federation might bo secured.