“TYPHOID POOL” TRAINING

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 3 December 1928, Page 3

“TYPHOID POOL” TRAINING

TREATMENT OF SWJAIAIEES. COUNCIL DEAIANDS EXPLANATION. Definite complaints against the treatment of tho Olympic swimmers on their tour to Europe were before the last meeting of the Now Zealand Swimming Council. The secretary, Air. B. O’Neill, produced correspondence which showed that the Dominion manager of the Olympic team, on behalf of the swimming council, had arranged for Air. J. Hodgson, its representative in England, to accompany tho team to Amsterdam to look after the swimmers. Mr. O’Neill said Air. H. Amos, the manager, agreed with this plan. Tho council had before it a report from Air. Hodgson. It stated Air. Amos had ignored him and the swimmers wore given no reasonable chance for proper training. Air. Hodgson stated in his letter that he was excluded from the official party to Amsterdam, and that, there the women were left to train in “a filthy, oily, -lock.” At the Games ho learned that the dock had earned tho name ‘‘Typhoid Pool” owing to the odour ami the nasty taste of the water. American and German swimmers had been forbidden to train there. The council decided to demand a full and immediate statement from Air. Ames and the Olympic Council. Further action was deferred meantime.