WEDNESDAY SPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 15

WEDNESDAY SPORTS.

| The Techhlial College Old Bojrs* Attiatettr Athletic Club will conduct an evening sports meeting at the Domain to-morrow, when the following events will be hehl:—100 yards, 300 yards, 1320 yards, one mlla walk, discus throWw Events to be held by th« Old Gram-, mariahs' Amateur Athletic Clttb at the Auckland Grammar, School grouMd to-, morrow feVMlfig at 3.45 bJn.73 yards, .">OO yards, putting the phot, long lamp. Teams Tor the relay championships on I February 4 will be finally tfctetted. fct this meeting.

RECORDS SHATTERED V. P. Boot and A. L. Fitch A PRESS Association message states that yesterday at the Masterton Amateur Athletic Club's sports meeting V. P. Boot, the New Zealand Empire Gaines representative, who sails to-day for Sydney to compete in the New South Wales championships, broke tbe 600 yards track record of 1.13 2-5, established by R. Johnston, of South Africa, at Masterton. Paced by._a relay of runners, Boot did the distance in 1.13. A. L. Fitch, the American cdach| paced by a cyclist, clipped 2-8* off the 440 yards tracks r*£j»rd of 49 4-ss, established by Parktay of U.S.A., in 1929.