ROSE A CHAMPION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 7

ROSE A CHAMPION

LERMOND ON NEW ZEALANDER SHOULD GO TO GAMES From Our Resident Reporter WELLINGTON, Today. “Randolph Rose is a champion. He is all that Lloyd Hahn said he was and more and every effort should be made to send Him to the British Empire Games and to the Olympic Games,” said Leo Lermond, the American mile runner, in a farewell message to New Zealand before leaving Wellington. “A man who can produce such a finish as Rose showed az Wellington is an athlete -of the highest class.” Ler-

mond said. “That effort, made with so little training makes me wonder what he would do if fully in form. I look forward to meeting him at. the Games, and earnestly t hope that he will get away to them.” Lermond criticised New Zealand methods, con-

sidering that Dominion athletes were doing themselves no good by turning out more than once in one day “Tactics such as these lead to men being burnt out," he said. “Hard training and conservation of well-being should be the words. I believe that Rose has had an interrupted athletic career. This may be due to what I have just said —that your runners take too much out of themselves by racing too frequently in the same day. It is not wise; it brings its penalty.” Lermond confessed that he did not greatly care for the New Zealand gras? tracks. “They may bo all right for Lloyd Hahn, they would suit his springy stride,” he said- “But when I run on a grass track it jars my foot.”