EIGHT WINS IN A ROW.
Ity winning three events at the Calo
•lonian Soeiet \ V spoils gat boring on! Saturday week. I!. Weir (( avorshatn. at! Dunodin) completed a remarkable run j of Micro--. lie has soured no fewer' than eight wins in a row. Weir took I the Midler Shield for the athlete gain-j ing tho mo-t points at the nicotine and! liis success was fully justified. Ho won' the 1(10 yards early in the programme! and later, off 17 yards, lie fmi-hod ahead: of tho Hold in the J2O yard- in the fast! time of J2 IHi- tl.ird siioeos- wa-' ill the open (jiMrter liandi.-a |>. in which' ho was oil the'.Ttyil mark. K\en allow- : ins for his sonorous hainlieap. Weir's : time of .">() l -.V wn- a sound etTort. Weir's ' chief explanation for his unusually «ood i nil of sueee.-scs is that he trains assiduous! v. !
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)
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146EIGHT WINS IN A ROW. Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)
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