DISMISSAL APPEALED
OLYMPIC CYCLIST MAKES ANOTHER BID AMATEUR RANKING After months of indecision among cycling authorities in Australia, Jack Standen, tho Olympic cyclist, is to have a hearing of his appeal against his disqualification from amateur ranks. Standeri’s disqualification was a greater sensation even than the change to professionalism of the famous Victorian, R. TV. Lamb. The iote*-"'>t»onal cycling control in Paris refused to have anything to do with Standen’3 appeal, and the present decision to hear the cyclist’s case against his dismissal from amateur sport came about through a cote taken in New South Wales, Victoria and Queens--1 a n d. Although Standen is a New South Wales cyclist, it was the opinion from Victoria and Queensland that Standen should be given fair play that resulted in consent to hear his protest. Some critics in Australia have taken the cycling control to task for not having decided the full facts of the cose immediately.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 11
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155DISMISSAL APPEALED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 11
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