EMPIRE GAMES TEAM.
APPEARANCE AT MASTERTON. “MATTER OF TRAINING.” Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 25. The suggestion that by competing in the relay race at Alasterton last Saturday against a team including the American professional coach, A. L. Fitch, members of the Trinidad Empire Games athletic team had endangered their amateur status was disclaimed by the manager (Mr M. E. L. Joseph) to-night. “I have heard that suggestion, but I do not think it is correct,” lie said. “I took very good care that my team was not involved in any such trouble. At Alasterton m.y team ran against Fitch, but the race was purely a matter of training in which Fitch was showing our members liow to change the baton in the American style. My association suggested before we left that we might meef Fitch in New Zealand, but his part at Alasterton was purely an instructional one.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 7
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149EMPIRE GAMES TEAM. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 7
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