RETURN OF. R. A. ROSE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3543, 28 September 1926, Page 2

RETURN OF. R. A. ROSE.

After six months’ absence from the Dominion, during which he competed in- England and on the Continent, New Zealand’s champion athlete, Randolph Rose, accompanied by his trainer and manager, Mr ,J. W. McHolm, returned to Wellington by the R.M.S. Tahiti yesterday .morning. Both looked fit and well, and spoke in glowing terms of the courtesy and treatment meted out to them*on the tour. “I am satisfied,” said Rose, “that an athlete requires at least two months’ training on the spot to become acclimatised.” Referring to some of the events in which he participated, Rose said that in -one case he had 95 opponents, and to clear this field meant an added handicap in a race framed on a 4.20 basis. In France, where the heat was terriffic, he' struck something like his true form and succeeded in breaking a French record and beating the holder and champion, Guillemot. At ’a meeting at Rotterdam, he (Rose) was going well in a 5,000 metres race when he was forced to give up on account of an attack of influenza. This affected him in subsequent races at Oslo, though he won a 2,000 metre steeplechase. It was then that it was decided to return home without meeting Nurmi. Rose did not compete anywhere on the return journey.