ATHLETICS UNITED STATES TITLES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27055, 2 June 1953, Page 11

ATHLETICS UNITED STATES TITLES

N.Z. HIGH JUMPER TO COMPETE

(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, May 29. The New Zealand high jumper, G. A. Jefferies (Oxford University) is to compete in the United States athletic chamJun*? hiP * at Dayton > Ohio - at end of

f Jt e o^ a r- me !?^ er ot the combined Oxtn d fhr d TT Ca I"5 rl l 8 * team whleh is eoing United States primarily for a L r „“J n £“ 1 ar ™ atch against a combined Yale and West Point team, and a Cornell Uni-versity-United State. Navy side-atX W?« S m. Frankli " «eld, Philadelphia. Three members ot the British team will go on to Ohio.

, ® ri J , *. h atheltes are taking a great in--1u(«h 1,1 016 , trip ‘ and sporting writers ®~ aady ?. ay , they regard it as an unships attack on the American champlon-

-The two other leading members of the British Universities’ team who will be competing are the miler, David Law, and the javelin thrower, A. A. Reich, also Oxford men. Reich is an American, ; The "Evening News" says: •’Jefferies Wl !'. take on the toughest high jump competition in the world. The United States has half a dozen men within fractions a 9 inch of the world record of 6ft Uin.

The last Briton to compete for an American Title was Douglas Wilson, a former mile champion, who ran in the 1951 championships.

When the championships are taking place in the United States, another team of British athletes, headed by the longdistance runner C. J. Chataway, will be competing for Eastern Canadian titles at Montreal.

Chataway is likely to meet the Canadian Don McEwen, whose 9min I.9sec for two miles was the fastest time by a British Empire athlete until last year.