Athletics U.S. SPRINT CHAMPION

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29871, 11 July 1962, Page 5

Athletics U.S. SPRINT CHAMPION

Return After Six Months

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright)

LOS ANGELES, July 9 The Olympic sprinit champion, Wilma Rudolph Ward returning to competition after a six months’ lay-off, easily defended her United States 100 yards championship last night. Her time in the final was 10.8 sec.

She tied her own U.S. Amateur Athletic Union record of lo.7sec in winning a semi-final earlier in the day. Ln the final, Mrs Wand took the lead at the half-way mark and broke the tope a full stride ahead of her Tennessee State University team-mate, Edith McGuire. Vivien Brown, also of Tennessee State, was third.

Dates For N.Z. Titles (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, July 9. The New Zealand amateur athletic championships, to be lield in Dunedin in March. 1963. have been brought forward a week. They will be held on March 1 and 2 instead of March 8 and 9. This was decided by the Otago Amateur Athletics Association tonight after a request from the West Coast, North Island, association. The New Zealand association had agreed that the earlier dates would be better as the M.C.C. cricket team would be playing in Dunedin on the later week-end.

3-Mile Record May Go (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. July 10. The middle-distance runner, M. G. Halberg, believes his world three-mile record of 13 min lOsec could go when B. Tulloh, of Britain, and B Kidd (Canada) meet in the British championships in London this week. But he said he thought Tulloh would have learnt by now not to make the mistake of saying he would go for a world record in a specified race.