AMERICAN ATHLETES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 16

AMERICAN ATHLETES.

AT GISBORNE MEETING. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Friday. The American athletes, Scliolz and Hahn, competed at the Gisborne meeting before 2000 spectators to-day. Seholz gave a magnificent exhibition of sprinting. Hahn appeared to be somewhat harshly treated by the handicapper and failed to register a -win. Kesults are— 100 Yards Handicap.—A Thorpe, 14yds 1 ; J. V. Seholz, Kcr, 2 ; L. Sutcliffe, CJyds, 3. Time, 0 3-ss. Won by a touch. 73 Yards Invitation Ptace.—l. V. Seholz, 1; F. Truman, 2; L. Sutcliffe, 3. Time, 7 4-os. Won by a few inches. 220 Yards Handicap.— J. V. Scholz, scr, 1; J. L. Sutcliffe, 10yds, 2; O Paltridgo, 10yds, 3. Time 21 3-ss—equal to Australasian record, against the breeze. A great finish. Hahn was handicapped out of the mile, which was covered in 4m 34 2-ss. He withdrew from the 440 yds. event.

Lady Allenby, though her hair remains unshingled, has a good -word for the modern flapper, whom she describes as "a delightful creature, providing she is not given too free a hand." Some flappers, -she admitted to a Press representative, needed the guidance of older folk. Parents were not, however, entirely free from blame, for, after the war, many of them wanted to give their girls a good time, with the result that some of those girls lad a little selfish.