OLYMPIC TEAMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 355, 16 May 1928, Page 15

OLYMPIC TEAMS

BADGES FOR OARSMEN FINANCING OF NEXT TRIP Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. When the question of adding W. G. Kalaugher, now at Oxford, to the New Zealand Olympic team came up at the meeting of the New Zealand Olympic Council this evening, Mr. J. W. Heenan said it had been reported that Kalaugher was covering 48ft in the hop, step and jump event, and if this was so, he would have a good chance of reaching the final six. He is to be given a try-out with a view to being added to the team. The suggestion was also made that the rowing team as selected should be given the 1928 Olympic badge. The chairman, Mr. A. D. Bayfield, said the team would have been sent had it not been for the financial hurdle. The badge was a fernleaf and the words “New Zealand Olympic team, 1928.” It was decided to grant the badges to the 10 rowers selected.

The question of collecting funds to send a team to the Olympic Games which will be held at Los Angeles in 1932 was discussed. Mr. Heenan said if each athlete in the Dominion would give one penny a week and 6d a at Christmas until the next Olympic Games there would be no need to appeal to the public for finance. Under this scheme a rowing eight could be sent easily, because the rowers themselves would collect £ 3,000.

It was decided to set up a sub-com-mittee consisting of Messrs. Austed, Bayfield, Coira and Heenan to consider the matter and report to the next meeting of the council.