ATHLETICS.
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S TITLE.
FAST 220 YARDS EVENT. SYDNEY, January 16. In a brilliant finish Miss Edie Robinson (N.S.W.) won the Australian women's 220 yards championship in 24 4-ssec from Miss E. Wearne (New South Wales), equalling the national record. Miss Robinson and Miss Wearne flashed over the line together, the judges taking five minutes to determine the winner. Miss V. Cowan (Victoria) broke the Australian women's shot-put record, with a distance of 32ft llin. The previous record was 31ft B£in. NEW RECORD APPROVED. WELLINGTON, January 16. A new Dominion record for the women's bread jump was approved by
the council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association to-night—-17ft 1-iin—by Doris L. Strachan, of the South Canterbury sub-centre, at Temuka last year.
McLACHLAN BEATEN. L. C. McLachlan was made to look a second-rate performer by I. Craig, who ran second in the 880 yards and third in. the one mile at the New Zealand championships two years ago, at a recent meeting in Otago. Craig, off 15 yards, won easily in lmin 59sec, which was excellent time for the conditions. McLachlan, however, has not reached top form yet.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 81, 17 January 1936, Page 2
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