CHAMPION ATHLETES
AMERICANS PROPOSE TOUR OF AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 10. Mr W. W. Hill has received a letter from Mr Moloney, president of the Californian Rugby Union, proposing a visit of an All-American Rugby team vn 1922. The team will include Kirksey and Paddock (world champion sprinters), Templeton (hurdler) Manner (jayelin-thrower), Norton (440yds hurdler), and Muller (high jump), who are all champions. Mr Hill lias referred the matter to the Rugby Union and Athletic Association. VISIT OF ~SOUTH AFRICANS. SYDNEY, June 10. Mir E. S. Marks, secretary of the Athletic Union of Australia and New Zealand, has written to South Africa to the effect that the proposed visit of cyclists will be acceptable to New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, but not to South Australia and New Zealand, on account of there being no suitable tracks. It is stated that the athletes will be received in Australia at the end of the year in time for the Australasian championships. They will he in New Zealand from the middle of .January to the puddle of February.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10924, 11 June 1921, Page 7
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