FINAL WARM-UP FOR ATHLETES

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31124, 29 July 1966, Page 15

FINAL WARM-UP FOR ATHLETES

(Special Correspondent NZP A .) KINGSTON. Track athletes in the New Zealand Empire Games team will have another chance for valuable competition on Saturday when they will take part in a meeting on a 350-yard track at Onnotto Bay, 30 miles from Kingston.

Because athletes from New Zealand, Australia and Britain took part in the Los Angeles meeting last week-end, there was a possibility that this pregames meeting would be cancelled. Mr J. Hutchinson, the athletics section manager, said yesterday that the meeting was being regarded as an opportunity for competitive training to round off the preparation rather than as a preliminary trial of strength with the other teams. Events in which New Zealanders will be competing are:— One mile: M. L. Ryan. P. Welsh. A G. Pyne. I. S. Studd. Three miles: J. L. Julian. W. D. Baillie. 100 yards and 80 metres hurdles: Miss B. Matthews. Long jump and triple jump: D. S. Norris. R. A. Williams.

Fight Arranged.—M. Santos the national light-weight ehampion, will fight D. Patterson, the Nevada State light-weight titleholder, at Auckland on August 15. United States Tour.—The Fijian Rugby team may tour the United States and Canada in Utt, the president of the Fijian Rugby Union (Sir Maurice Scott) said in Auckland yesterday.

Discus and shot put: L. R. Mills, R. D. Tait, Mrs V. I. Young, Miss D. Charteris. 440 yards: Mrs M. A. M. Stephen. 440 yards hurdles: R. I. , Johnson.