EMPIRE GAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 926, 20 March 1930, Page 6

EMPIRE GAMES

SELECTING DOMINION TEAM THREE ATHLETES MENTIONED From Our Resident Reporter WELLINGTON, Today. All sports bodies are now at work on the question of their representation at the Empire Games in Canada, and early decisions in the different fields are likely to be made. The council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association decided to postpone discussion of representation until after the New Zealand championships held at Wanganui last week, but will deal with the question at its next meeting. Three possibilities after their form at "Wanganui are S. A. Lay, javelin thrower, R, A. Rose, the well-known distance runner, and F. Grose, Christchurch cyclist. All are in world class.

Officials say that Grose proved himself beyond doubt at Wanganui, while Rose, by his great victory in the three miles showed that he is still a better man than Savidan. About the dispatch ! •of Lay if he is available, there is not | the slightest doubt, as he is the present j holder of the Empire championship j for the javelin throw, having gained it in England, at the Stamford Bridge Games prior to the Olympic Games in 1927. No difficulty about finance is anticipated, the only question being what is to be the Dominion’s representation. OLYMPIC GAMES INSTEAD The council of the New Zealand Swimming Association, which has at present about £2OO in its overseas fund, has an eye upon the Olympic Games in 1932, for "which R. A. Rose is also possibly likely to wait. However, the suggestion has been made that centres should provide their own finance, up to a point, for their own candidates for the Empire Games, and that the council should pay a subsidy of about £ .50 a man. Possibilities for the Games are L. J. Moorhouse, of Canterbury, backstroke champion, Gordon Bridson, the outstanding young Auckland swimmer, and R. Calder, the diving champion of Otago. Moorhouse is the man considered to be definitely in world class and might be first choice, coming even before Bridson, while Calder has been at the top of his class lor five years. When R. Eve was sent from Australia for the diving events he was considered to have little chance, but he came at the top of the plain diving, and Calder, a hard practiser, is well in the running. In the event of these three being chosen, it is thought that Dunedin and Auckland \V"ould I probably provide about enough money to send their men. A total of from £l3O to £l5O a man is needed. There is no advice from the Boxing Association of New Zealand as yet, but it is understood that Mr. Earl Stewart, who chose Morgan and Cleverlev for the last Olympic Games, is reporting to the council. There is no tennis player of outstanding ability, so the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association will be unrepresented. and the New Zealand Rugby Union is unable to send a team to a Rugby contest, as was suggested some time ago when it was thought that the British team might also attend.