OLYMPIC GAMES

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1932, Page 5

OLYMPIC GAMES

NURMI'S ENTRY IS REJECTED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LOS ANGELES, July 28. The question of declaring Nurmi, the Finnish distance runner, a professional, did not enter into the action of the Olympic Games Commission, which has merely rejected his entry on what. it has considered good and sufficient grounds, and they cloned the •case. The International Amateur Athletic Federation late on Thursday voted to bar Paavo Nurmi, of Finland, from the Olympic Games, and rejected his ■ ■entry. TEE'; NEW ZE/jLAND COMPETITORS. LOS ANGELES, July 29. At the virtual conclusion of hard,. ■ determined . practice, the Australian Press Representative in a survey finds the Australian and New Zealand Olympiad participants generally in good condition, with reasonably fair prospects of winning their share of honours. The New Zealander, Elliott, has been recording good trials. Goichng’s and Black’s chances are retarded owing to injuries, and they are. also facing the strongest opposition. Lovelock lias "an excellent chance in the 1500 metres. Savidan is regarded as a. remarkable distance man arid is conceded a good chance in the 10,000 metres. Th 0 New Zealand rowers have j a material advantage of long framing on the course which is a most unusual one.