CONTROL OF ATHLETICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 5

CONTROL OF ATHLETICS.

DELEGATES' INDEPENDENCE SUPPORTED. fBT TELEGRAPH — PEESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Mr. W. G. Atack, ex-president of the Amateur Athletic Council, in an interview with the Christchurch Star, strongly endorses the attitude of Messrs. Marryatt and Pollock, Ota-go delegates, on the question of the allocation of the Australasian championships. He insists that for the good government of the sport, delegates ought to have a free hand. In any case, the allocation of the championships was a matter for the council under rule 10 of the Australasian Union, and the conference, which wae purely £a informal affair, has no right to interfere. Mr. Atack remarked on the irony of the fact that the Otago delegates, who now ignored the centre's instructions, were in the forefront of the agitation against the old council when located in Cbri&tchurch, and were now doing the very thing for -which they condemned the members of the old council unsparingly. It was evident they realised the unwisdom of their former attitude. He hoped the position would go far towards' abolishing that parochialism which had had a strangle1 hold on the association for years. | Mr. Atack added that the prospective ! retirement of Messrs. Pollock and Marryatt was greatly to bo regretted, for both had done an enormous amount of work, and possessed a good store of knowledge of athletic politics and the faculty of leadership.