NO CHANCE TO TRAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 13

NO CHANCE TO TRAIN

OLYMPIC SWIMMERS’ COMPLAINTS TYPHOID POOL” FOR WOMEN Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. Definite complaints against the treatment of Olympic swimmers on the tour to Europe were before the New Zealand Swimming Council at the annual meeting: to-night. The secretary, Mr. B. O’Neil, said the council hacl arranged for Mr. J. Hodgson, its representative in England, to accompany the team to Amsterdam to look after the swimmers. Mr. O’Neill said Mr. H. Amos, manager of the team, agreed with this plan. The council had before it a report Tom Mr. Hodgson, in which it was stated Mr. Amos had ignored him and •I’o swimmers were given no reasonable chance for proper training. Mr. Hodgson stated in the letter that he "as excluded from the official party to Amsterdam and that there the women members of the team were left to train j® a “filthy, oily dock.” At the Games he learned that the dock had earned name of the “typhoid pool” owing *° the odour and nasty taste of the American and German swimmers were forbidden to train there. Mr. O’Neill said me Swimming Asand Mr. Hodgson had been submitted to a series of indignities J 1 ** should not be accepted without ■?*. liveliest resentment. Had the swimming Association known that the Mmmers would have suffered under handicaps which Mr. Amos’s manSement permitted it would not have the team to depart. , . 110 ColJ ncil decided to demand a full • immediate statement from Mr. and the Olympic Council. Furwtoie.aCti ° n was deferred in the mean-