STAWELL GIFT
CLOSEST FINISH YET MELBOURNE, April 18. Jack Gann, of Broken Hill, to-day \ won the rich Staweli Gift in the closest finish in the history of the race. Only 21 inches separated the winner and the last of the five fiinalists.
Australan. sprint champion, John Stoney, of St. Kilda, in- finishing third, 10 inches behind Cann, ran nine yards, 35 inches inside even time—only one inch short of Jack Donaldson’s world record, made at Sydney in 1911.
The result was: J. Cann (Broken Hill) 8-lvds, 1; P. Judd (Fullarton, South Australia), TWds. 2; J. Stoney (St. Kilda),. 2yds, 3. Won by four inches, Avith six inches between second and third. Time 11 13-lGsec.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 160, 19 April 1949, Page 3
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