Everything Going Well With N.Z. Olympic Team

Chronicle (Levin), 14 July 1948, Page 5

Everything Going Well With N.Z. Olympic Team

Received Tuesdav, 7 p.m. RICHMOND (Olympic Camp), July 13. Apart from tlie fact that Britain V eoldest July for II years is robbing theni of tlie sunshine for which they were longing and that three 'athletes — Harris, Nelson and Holland — want at least two more races before the (james begin, but at the moment cannot. see' where they will get them, everything is going 'Well with tlie New Zeafa-Ail Olvmpic team. . Xgaire Lane's English backstrokc championsliip at Scarborough has put. smiles on ull faces. Nliss Lane said shu felt verv fit after her races and not at all distressed after the strenuous fmal. She felt- she had been very well ad-' vised by her eoach. Carter, who with other overseas Olympic eompctitors, was allowed to , take part in the National Cycling Union 120-mile race 011 Saturday provided he did not finish, dec.lared that. he felt litter duriilg this outing than ' he ever did in New Zealand. II 0 rode for 1)3 miles and came back beaming. Ile had spent the week' training in Birmingliam with ihe Englishman, R. Maitland, who won Saturday 's race. Holland was satisfied with his win for University Athletic Union on Saturday in the 440-yard hurdles. He has now had three races in En'glaml and improved his time in each. For his first he returned 55.5 seconds, t'pr the ' second 55 seconds and 011 Saturday his time was 54.4 seconds. | Harris' won the half-mile on Satur- , day in Iraia 54sec which he ' regard&d as-v'fairly slow. " He beat II. Tarraway but he was disappointed that Parlett who had beaten hira the previous week, was unable to compete. Nelson found there was 110 four-mile . race but he reeled off this distance during the relay race of four one-mile laps. ' ' What* tlie three of us need is a eouple of good races before the Games, " said Harris, "but at the moment we can't see where we can get them. English runners, having worked up to tlie peak for the A.A.A. championships, are now easing down slightly and aren 't greatly interested in further races apart from the triangular Eng-land-Scotland-Ireland meeting on Saturday in which we are not qualified to compete. Something may turn up, however, and a couple of good races wculd give us something to bite on." Miss Lane would also like another race before the Games but it is not certain whether she will have one eithev. Mr. Woodfield, manager, is confident, liowever, that all will come into their tri.e form for the Games. Gosling, the boxer, is training daily at the gymnasium in Cambridge Circus, ! London, recommended by the British l Boxiug Association. , He is having sliglit trouble with a knee which will have to be bandaged during the Games. He will not be having a liglit before then. Crowe, the weig;ht lifter, is pleased with his training and the fact that he is lifting greater weights. Holland will be tlie first to Ahow New Zealand 's coJours in t(iese Games. The progranime for the New Zealanders is: — July 30: 2.30 p.m., first heat of the 400 metres hurdles (Holland j; 4 p.m., first heat of the 800 metres (Harris); 5 p.m., senu -final of the hurdles (Holland) ; (3 p.m., final of - the .10,000 metres (Nelson). July 31: 3.15 p.m., semi-final of the S00 metres; 3.30 p.m., final of the hurdles; 4 p.m., first heat of the 5000 metres (Nelson). August 2: 4 p.m., fmal of the 800 metres; '5 p.m., fmal of the 50C0 metres. August 3: After 2 p.m., first heat of ladies' 100 metres backstroke (Lane). August 4: After 7 p.m., semi-final of'

t ladies ' backstroke. August 5: After 7 p.m., fmal of Jadies' backstroke. August 9: Boxing (Gosling) ; bantam weightlifting (Crowe). August 13: 120-mile cycle race (Carter).