Nine Records At Boys’ Inter-School Sports

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30711, 29 March 1965, Page 13

Nine Records At Boys’ Inter-School Sports

Secondary school athletes triumphed over adverse conditions to set six new records and equal another three during the finals of the annual inter-school championships at Rugby Park on Saturday.

As well, two Canterbury 7 under-age records were made and another three equalled.

Including performances from the preliminary rounds interschool records were broken or equalled 12 times.

Considering some parts of the ground were still under water at 10 o’clock in the morning, the track was in surprisingly good order when the meeting began at 2 p.m. Burnside Dominates One of the most significant aspects was the emergence of Burnside High Schol as the dominant force in the sprint events. R. Stevenson created a stir by beating the Canterbury junior sprint champion, A. Tweedie (Christchurch Boys’ High School), in the

100 yards, in lO.&sec. Tweedie had his turn earlier though, when he had the better of Stevenson in the 220 yards, won in 23.25ec. Burnside made a clean sweep of the 100 yards and the furlong in the intermediate and junior divisions, and was second in the under 14 grade. D. Campbell was a cut above the opposition in the intermediate 100 yards, won in 10.6 sec, equalling the senior time, and 23.55ec in the 220 yards equalled the Canterbury under 17 record.

N. Harrington impressed by equalling the inter-school record in the 220 yards and the Canterbury under 15 records in both junior events. His times were 10.9 sec and 24.45ec. Senior milers provided one of

the most exhilarating contests. In an almost dead-heat finish, R. Treeby (St. Andrew’s College) gained the decision, after earlier having won the half-mile in a run-away win. J. Long (Christchurch Boys’ High School) made the early running in the mile, when he went away to a 40-yard lead. Cashmere s B. Bruce then burst through with 350 yards to go and looked to have the race won until Treeby came with a late bid that swept him through on the tape. Field events provided their share of excitement, too, and nowhere was this more evident than in the intermediate shot put and discus. 1. Dalzell (Riccarton) and D. Sheard (Christ’s College) provided the drama in matches that were won on the last rounds. •

After setting a new record in the preliminaries and again in the final, Sheard had to bow to Dalzell in the discus throw. Sheard led the series with 158 ft 54in but Dalzell achieved 159 ft tin on his final throw. Sheard's turn came with the shot, when he beat Dalzell by nearly two feet with a final throw of 50ft 34in. Two wins and a record were claimed in the senior throwing events by J. A. Dawson (Christ’s College). In the first event on the programme, Dawson won the shot put, his 47ft 9}in adding }in to the distance set by another Christ’s College competitor, J. G. Hawkes, in 1951. Later Dawson took the discus throw with 123 ft 3in.

Another double winner was J. Tomlinson (Aranui) in the intermediate middle distance events, including a recordequalling 880 yards in 2min 3.2 sec and the mile in 4min 40.6 sec.

Long Jumpers Remote from the crowd on the tree-shaded western side of the ground, senior long jumpers gave an exciting exhibition, also, only inches separating the first three. Again the winner, W. Tourell (Papanui) emerged on the final jump. Although the winning distance of 19ft 94in was more than two feet short of the 14-year-old record of J. F. Kearns (St. Bede's College), the standard was remarkably good. The take-off board sank visibly in the soggy turf under the impact of each jump. The Under-14 80 yard hurdles record took the biggest thrashing of the meeting. In the preliminaries. M. S. Smith (St. Bede’s College) reduced it from 12.8 sec to 12.3 sec. On Saturday he cut another o.3see off the time, fn the same grade D. A. Palmer (Christ’s College) extended the long jump record set earlier In the week by Jin when he cleared 16ft H4in. Other records set were:— K. McLaughlin (Christchurch West), junior 80 metre hurdles and Canterbury under 15, 11.9 sec: W. Green (Christchurch Technical College), junior long jump and Canterbury under 15, 19ft 24in: R. Wilson (Christchurch West) equalled the intermediate 110 yards hurdles record of 15.4 sec but the time was disallowed because of wind assistance.