LOVELOCK'S DEPARTURE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23016, 20 October 1936, Page 10

LOVELOCK'S DEPARTURE

A RACE DEFINED (From Our Own Correspondent; 1 (By Air Mail) LONDON, Sept. 19. J. E. Lovelock had a : great many people to see him off in the Queen Mary boat train, at Waterloo this week, accompanied by his trainer, Mr F. R. Thompson. The promoters of the Princeton meeting, by the way, are defraying Mr Thompson’s expenses. Prior to his departure Lovelock said: " I have never yet hit two peaks in one season, and I trained solely to win in Berlin. But I have not gone stale, and I hope to win at Princeton. For all practical purposes this race will be my last. I shall not run next season. I won the A.A.A. title once, and shall not worry about it again. lam again working to a schedule. A race, is not merely a run round the track. 1 You must study everything. “TOO OLD AT 27” “ British runners were disappointing at Berlin, but they are really good What they lacked was big international experience. There is a tremen dous difference between ordinary international running and Olympic running, and experience pulls you through. Rampling says ‘too old at 27.’ He is right, so far as he is concerned, for it is a matter for the individual. lam finishing at 26, after five years and a-half running in England. Another man might not be too old at 35.” RUGBY LEAGUE Feeling that the responsibility of acting as manager to Streatham and Mitcham Rugby League team has had an effect on, his play, George Nepia has resigned the position. He will, however, continue to captain the team. Mr H. E. Ashton, the former player, will be manager. A NOTABLE CRICKETER

New Zealand is to have a visit from that notable cricketer, C. B, Fry, who is travelling to Australia by. the Orion to write for a leading London paper a description of the play during the coming tour. He will in due course go on to New Zealand with the team. During his travels Mr Fry will write a book which in all likelihood will embody matter other than cricket. He is looking forward to his stay in New Zealand, where he hopes to have time for some fishing and generally to see the country. He made contact with the High Commissioner’s Office befor; departure and he was supplied with a considerable amount of information. Mr Fry is a man of many interests: as a writer he has his own inimitable style. He is very keen about seatraining for boys and in this connection he is the hon. director of the Nautical School training ship Mercury. His home is at Hamble, on Southampton Water. A friend recalls the fact that Fry, when in his prime, was approached to join an Australian M.C.C. team, and replied that he would have gone if £2OOO could have been allotted out of the proceeds to help the boys of the Mercury. lie still makes himself responsible for the continuation of this excellent work.