FROM OLYMPIC VILLAGE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1932, Page 9

FROM OLYMPIC VILLAGE

STUART BLACK’S IMPRESSIONS. tracks hard and fast. Writing from Los Angeles on July 10, just before he had the trouble with his back, th© New Plymouth Olympic runner S. A. Black in a letter to a friend states: “The village is a wonderful place away from all the bustle and noise of the city.' The days are very hot but the nights are cool and we all sleep very “The tracks are dirt not cinders; they hre much harder and faster than cinders. I have been training every day and am just starting to come right. I would give a thousand dollars to have . you and Mark Comber here. I am training with George Golding, and he is a great help. I should 'be pretty right by the time the Games start. Wyk<'t and Eastman have both been licked since we have been here, so you see running, is a very uncertain game. “We went out to the Riveria Country Club last Sunday at the special invitation of “Snowy” Baker and saw a polo game. It was very thrilling. Doug. Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Farrell and Johnny Mack Brown were sitting next to me. I met Charlie Murray, of Cohens and Kellys fame, the other day and had a long chat. “We have hardly any time to ourselves, so I have just snatched a few minutes to write. I have had to cut the < spikes in my shoes down to about a i quarter of an inch on account of the i tracks.” ’