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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 8 (November 1, 1938)

No Visiting Athletes this Season

No Visiting Athletes this Season.

Hopes that New Zealanders would see a team of American athletes this page 62 season have now been dispelled. In fact there will not be a New Zealand tour by any visiting athletes, although Otago athletes will be given the opportunity of competing against a small team of Australian athletes. At a time when New Zealand has two of the best athletes in the world—Cecil Matthews and Vernon Boot—it is unfortunate that the opportunity was not taken to use them to foster the sport and create public enthusiasm in the same manner as Randolph Rose's duels against Lloyd Hahn brought amateur athletics to the forefront in 1926.