Harriers HOLLOWAY RACES

Press, Volume C, Issue 29536, 10 June 1961, Page 14

Harriers HOLLOWAY RACES

Strong Fields For Today j More entries have been received by the Rover Scout Harrier Club for its Holloway memorial races to be conducted over a circuit from the Rapaki scout den in Garlands road. Opawa today. This is mainly because the race is being held much earlier this year than has been the custom. The senior race, of 126 miles, to be run over a testing circuit of 4.2 miles, has attracted entries from 16 four-man teams and 12 individuals compared with a total entry of 52 last year. The increase in the number of junior runners has been greater. Team entries have risen from nine to 19. and 10 individuals entered compared with one last year. The juniors will race over one lap of the senior course, which will be very heavy after last month's rain. For the first time this season all the top runners in the senior grade will meet for the first time off the same mark in one of the longer rac»s of the interclub harrier programme. Considerable interest will be taken in the clash between C. F. Reece, winner of the race last year and in 1956, and J. K. Macdonald, who so far this season has either won or recorded fastest time in all his starts. For Reece, however, it will be his first major start. Macdonald also had a previous win in the event in 1957 when it was shortened to eight miles for the benefit of one of th" New- Zealand selectors. Mr L. Bradshaw Both runners are former Canterbury champions and matched against them will also be the present titleholder. R. Stevens, who was second to the Otago runner. A. Potts, in the recent Kennett Cup fixture, in which Macdonald failed to start. Third in this race. N. Fleming. who has been showing much improved form in the shorter events, will be keen to impress the selectors he is just as good over the longer events.

Last year the provincial champion. A. Bayard, suffered an unexpected reverse in the junior event, which was marred by some of the competitors running off the course. Bayard will be out to make amends. Both the first and second-place men from last year. R. Alien and A. Dyer, who also missed the trail, will be competitors.