N.Z. RECORDS BROKEN

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25740, 28 February 1949, Page 8

N.Z. RECORDS BROKEN

AUSTRALIANS COMPETE AT NAPIER (P.A.) NAPIEK, February 27. New Zealand records for the 220 yards hurdles and 220 yards flat were broken by visiting Australian athletes at Napier yesterday afternoon. M. Curotta won the 220 yards fiat by seven yards in 21.3 sec. The time was onetenth of a second faster than John Treloar’s record, set at McLean Park two years ago. Curotta easily won the 100 yards in 9.6 sec, equalling the New Zealand record, but the wind was too strong to allow official recognition of the time. G. Goodacre had just too much in reserve for J. M. Holland in the 220 yards hurdles, and won by a yard and a half in 24.4 sec—one-fifth of a second faster than the record set by A. R. P. Eustace last season. Goodacre also beat Holland, who is the national record holder, in the 440 yards hurdles. Holland weakened in the last few yards, and Goodacre won by two yards in 54.6 sec—four-fifths of a second outside the record.

J. D. Sinclair, the national mile champion, fully extended D. White (Australia) in the 880 yards, and the Australian won by inches in lmin 56.55ec. G. Avery (Australia) won the hop, step, and jump with a distance of 46ft s|in, but was fully extended by R. Meban (Gisborne) in the long jump, and won by only a quarter of an inch with a leap of 20ft 7in. The Australians won each of the seven events in which they competed. They leave to-morrow for Christchurch. Brian Derwin (Napier) created a new Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay junior twomile record. In a special attempt he covered the distance in 9min 48.7 sec, 22 3-5 seconds faster than the previous time, and 6.3 seconds outside the national junior record.