Dickie Victorious

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 5 (Supplement)

Dickie Victorious

TEN-MILE HARRIER RACE

Teams' Event Won by Scottish

Eleven Years on End

A T , Lyall Bay last Saturday in the contest for the Vosseler Shield, the Scottish Harrier Club won the 10-mile race for the eleventh consecutive year. C. Dickie (Brooklyn Club), the exCanterburian who is one of the best distance runners the Dominion has produced in recent years, was the actual winner. The first seven men home from each club counted for the shield, and seven Scottish men were in the first 1 2 places.

The course led along Lyall Bay beach, where the high tide drove the runners up on to the soft sand the first time round, then through the lupins behind the Miramar golf links and over the hilis to Scots College. Friday night's rain had turned the track here into a muddy rivulet in places. From Scots College the runners went through Miramar and along Broadway and Onepu Road back to Lyall Bay, then round the same course again to finish down Freyberg Street.

C. Dickie (Brooklyn) and F. D. O'Flynn (who won the New Zealand University title the previous Saturday) were soon ahead of the field. Dickie led for most of the first lap, but O'Flynn moved ujt and was running well some distance ahead of Dickie Hearing the end of the second lap. when he took a wrong turning. Dickie passed him and went on to win.

Not so many runners as last year completed the arduous course. : Teams were reduced from 10 men j to seven because of the inroads the war has made on membership of ' clubs.

Individual placings: C. Dickie 'Brooklyn), 59.4, ]; F. L). O'Flynn (University), 59.11, 2; C. Bruce (Scottish). 59.52. 3; T. Bartlett (Scottish). 60.56. 4; A. Stevens 'Scottish). 5; F. Silver (Scottish), 6; T. Parkin (Wellington). 7; W. Owens (Wellington). 8; R. Ballantyne (Scottish), 9; A. Bourgois (Scottish), 10.

Teams placings: Scottish (Bruce, Bartlett. Stevens. Silver. Ballantyne, Bourgeois and Jones). 49. 1; Wellington, 130. 2; University, 171, 3; Brooklyn. 214, 4; Presbyterian, 237, 5; Methodist, 305, 6.

In presenting the shield to the president of the Scottish Club, Mr. W. Ballantyne. sen., Mr. F. W. Vosseler warned him that he must steel his heart to losing it one of these days. Mr. Ballantyne said that would not happen while he was with the club. Once the Scots got their hands on anything it was hard to take it away from them!