SIX-FOOT JUMP At GISBORNE MEETING.
(By £alegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this day.
A performance probably unequalled at a floodlight amateur sports meeting in the Dominion wa« given by L. Grey, holder of the Poverty Bay record of sft llin. He jumped 6ft Jin. _ The record jump In New Zealand wa« made by V. Perasalo, of Finland, during a tonr of New Zealand In 1935. The best performance credited to a New Zealander is the 6ft Jin by the Aucklander, M. H. Chadwick, in. 1938.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 13
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83SIX-FOOT JUMP At GISBORNE MEETING. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 13
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