UNIVERSITIES’ TOURNAMENT

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30392, 17 March 1964, Page 10

UNIVERSITIES’ TOURNAMENT

Canterbury Team

Chosen

The athletic* ‘•* m sent the University of C* n . , *7 bury at the New Zealand universities Kaster tournament at Palmerston North has announced. Usually a *Y o'sj*.X 0 '5j*.X meeting, the tournament will be held on «*»’*[. followed by a North v. South universities match cn the Monday, to assist with choosing a New Zealand universitiM’ team to visit Australia in May. The team is:— IM yards and SM yards. D. W. Mackensie, A. Steel; MJ yards. W. Slinn. D. Joyce: «M yards, B. Milne. P. Marks; mile. P. Hewlett. M. Mill": ‘ hr «* miles. O. Brown, B. Jones; IM yards hurdles. G. !>coU, J King; 220 yards hurdle* and 440 yard hurdles. D. Stevenson and Scott; long jump. N. O Brien. P. Black. B. Best (two to ** chosen); triple jump. O Brien. King; shot and di* cus L, ,fCrawford: hammer. R. Tait: javelin. N. Pickard; 4 x 110 yards relay, Mackenzie. Steel. Joyce. Teen: 4 x 440 yards relay, Mackenzie. Marks, Gi*nJoyce, Stephenson tone to be omitted).

Women 75 yards and 100 yards, R. Needham, R. Higgs; 220 yards. Needham: 80 metre hurdles, J. Clark; long jump and high jump, Higgs; shot, Higgs, Clark; discus, Higgs: relay. Needham, Higgs, Clarke, and one to be named.

“New Brighton 50” Entries

Eight runners have entered for th* "New Brighton 50" to be run from Hawarden to New Brighton on Saturday. Two North Island entries are C. Frethy (Wellington), the first athlete in New Zealand to run 100 miles and D. Stephenson (Auckland), who was second last year. Stephenson has run 142 miles in 24 hours. Auckland marathon representative, I. Keats, is not available, and the Canterbury six-mile champion. B. Turner, last year's winner, is not expected to defend his "title.” The other entrants are: H. Vodder, L. E. Fox. C. Wood, C. F. Reece, J. Kenny and D. Kennedy (Waimate).