BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21148, 26 April 1934, Page 17

BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES

NEW ZEALAND TEAM SELECTED THREE ATHLETES AND THREE SWIMMERS (FBBS3 ASSOCIATION TELEORAM.) WELLINGTON, April 25. Three athletes and three swimmers will represent New Zealand at the British Empire Games, to be held in England in August next. The team, which was selected at a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association on Tuesday evening, is as follows: Athletics H. K. Brainsby (Auckland)— Long jump, and hop, step, and jump. T. G. Broadway (Canterbury) Quarter-mile and half-mile. J. E. Lovelock (Oxford University, formerly Otago)—Half-mile and mile. Swimming Noel Crump (Auckland)—looyds and 440 yds free-style. W. Whareaitu (Rotorua)—looyds free-style and 100 yds backstroke. L. Smith (Feilding)—2ooyds breaststroke. The swimmers will also compete in 300 yds swimming medley race. Dr. A. E. Porritt, who at present is practising in London, has been invited to act as manager. The team will leave by the Remuera on June 9. A STRONG TEAM PERFORMANCES OF SELECTED MEN Canterbury's chief interest in the team for the British Empire Games is in the selection of T. G. Broadway, who is looked upon as the finest middle distance runner New Zealand has produced. He has been New Zealand half-mile champion for the last three years, and each season he has considerably reduced his time, until this year he won the title in lmin 55 4-ssec. He was born in Chrislchurch, and is nearly 23 years of age. He was educated at Dunelm private school and at Waitaki Boys' High School, where he ran third in the cross-country championship and first in the one mile handicap, oil scratch in both races. He did not run from 1928 until 1931. In 1932 he won the 440 yards Canterbury championship in 50 4-ssec, the 880 yards in lmin 56 4-ssec, and the 880 yards New Zealand championship in lmin 56 3-ssec. Last year, in one of the finest races Lancaster Park has seen, Broadway was beaten by inches by D. F. Anderson in the Canterbury half-mile championship, run in lmin 54 4-ssec —the New Zealand record time. At the same meeting he won the 440 yards title in 50 2-ssec. He defeated Anderson in the New Zealand ships a week later, in both the quarter and the half-mile. His time for the half in this race was lmin 56 l-ssec. This year Broadway has to his credit the wonderful performance of winning the Canterbury and New Zealand 440 yards and 880 yards titles, all in one season. His best times for 1933-34 were 49 2-ssec and lmin 55 4-ssec. When the Australian athletes were in Christchurch early this month he set up a New Zealand record of 2min 15 l-ssec for the 1000 yards. Brainsby's Performances H. K. Brainsby's performances at the New Zealand championships and later at the Australian gathering at Auckland thoroughly earned him his inclusion. He has been nominated for the broad and the hop, step, and jumps, but it is only in the latter that he can be expected to compete with prominence. His best of 22ft 3Jin in the former is not likely to trouble the opposition he will encounter, but if he reproduces his 49ft 8!; in in the hop, step, and jump, he should finish in the first three. Brainsby at the moment is probably the second best exponent of the event in the Empire O') the basis of official

T. G. BROADWAY. figures this is certainly go. With the exception of Metcalfe no one has exceeded the Auckland athlete's feat during the last 12 months. Further emphasis is -given Brainsby's chances by the fact that the hop, step, and jump is an event which does not enjoy great popularity among British Empire athletes outside those from Australia and New Zealand. In his case, too, he should not suffer any great inconvenience from the lack of actual practice during the five weeks' boat journey, since training for the event consists largely of physical exercises. Brainsby should arrive in England in excellent condition. Brilliant Lovelock J. E. Lovelock's selection, of course, was a foregone conclusion, quite apart from his being in residence in England.

Last year he proved himself one of the world's most brilliant athletes, creating a new record for the mile of 4min 7 3-ssec, which was regarded, as the greatest feat of the season. There is no reason to suppose that he will not show the same outstanding form this summer, though it would be too much to expect another such amazing run as he registered against W. Bonthron, America's leading miler, at Princeton. A 4min 7 3-ssec mile is a performance such as even the truly great rarely repeat. The Swimmers Having regard to his remarkable consistency and the brilliant times he has returned for the 100 yards and 100 metres this season, Noel Crump's inclusion in the Nov/ Zealand team for the British Empire Games was almost a foregone conclusion. The national 100 yards and 220 yards champion has been breaking records with remarkable regularity for the last three or four years, but his performances this season have capped all others. Earlier in the present season he did 55 l-ssec for 100 yards at Auckland, which gained recognition as a New Zealand record, and on March 22 he returned the time of 61 l-ssec for 100 metres at the Auckland Swimming Centre's carnival. It was announced that this was a New Zealand and Australian record, but apparently the time only equalled Noel Ryan's Australian record. So Crump took advantage of an invitation from the Auckland Primary Schools' Swimming Association to make another attempt at a big carnival recently to settle the matter beyond doubt. He was successful in setting new records for both the 100 yards and the 100 metres. Backstroke and Breaststrokc W. Whareaitu's full capabilities over 100 yards or the backstroke are mainly a matter of speculation, but in water much colder than that to which he has been accustomed he went close to the record mark for 150 yards when he won the national title in Christchurch recently. Considering that he shows more dash over 50 yards than for 100 yards on the freestyle, he may do even better time in comparison for 100 yards backstroke than for 150 yards.' Ho has been swimming backstroke only about a year. L. Smith's best time for 220 yards breast-stroke is 3min 4sec, which is the New Zealand record, and which he put up in 1929, at Wanganui. He has had few opportunities for regular training, but in spite of his having little opposition has put up consistently good times at the recent championship meetings.