ATHLETICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1926, Page 3

ATHLETICS.

[Australian N.Z. Cable Association.] ROSE’S FUTURE PLANS. LONDON, August 20. The New Zealand athlete. Rose, 'has recovered. He has arrived here from Oslo with McHolm. and is leaving for America to-morrow. He embarks from San Francisco on the Tahiti on the Bth of September. McHolm considers his worst luck was the influenza which interfered with Rose when lie was working up to his best form. He had been doing the equivalent of a mile in 4min Sftsees in England, and lie improved in Paris, while he was at his best in Rotterdam, when :,, e was leading the Belgian champion in’the five thousand metres, and had left the field far behind, hut he suddenly collapsed half-way through.

Tie did not feel ill beforehand. Thenceforward it was a matter of fulfilling engagements as far as possible, but he could not run more than once a week. TTe really needed a long rest. Rose was most disappointed, ns everything bad been practically arranged to meet Nurmi at Abo on August 2<‘ l th. 1 He proposed to make liis next season in New Zealand one of the lightest, anil thereafter to train most intensely before the Olympic Games. The New Zealander, E. 1L Sutherland, who has been living in South Africa and Scotland, has informed Mr McHolm (Rose’s trainer), that lie will shortly lie returning to Wellington to compete in athletics. McHolm considers him the best all-round athlete that New Zealand has produced. OLYMPIC GAMES. LONDON. August 21. The International Olympic Games Committee, in view of the attitude of the International Lawn Tennis Federation, has informed it that - unless it guarantees that the world’s best players participate, tennis will he omitted from the 192 S Games, which are fixed to open on July 14th and close on July 29th.