"ALL CUT AND DRIED"
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Professional Cycling Races ASHBURTON ALLEGATION
(By Telegraph-
. ASHBURTON, This Day. "I challenge anyone to prove to me that professional cycling and running are clean and straight-out contests. The matter is all. cnt. and dried among tho competitors before they come to Ashburton. All the competitors have a finger in the pie abojit who is going to win. That is why I have come to the conclusion that it is time the professional element* was eliminated from galas." Thia statement was made by Mr W. K. Waters at a public meeting held. to arrange a Labour Day gala in aid of beautifying funds. Mr Waters7 state-, rnent was the climax to a long-standing controversy regarding the inclusion of professional sports in the programme on the ground that 'they absorbed too much of the profits. The galas have been steadily slipping back in the public estimation, mainly on acconnt of dissension over the holding of the sports at tho functions. In 15 years the galas have raised over £5000 for the Advance Ashburton Association, which has spenf it all in beautifying the town. -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 5
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187"ALL CUT AND DRIED" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 5
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