Canterbury Athletes Dominant In Westport

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31323, 20 March 1967, Page 14

Canterbury Athletes Dominant In Westport

Canterbury athletes and senior cyclists almost completely dominated the Buller amateur championship meeting held at Westport on Saturday. Twelve new records were established, most of them by visitors.

The outstanding achievement was that of R. Tayler, of Timaru, national junior halfmile champion, who recorded Imin 53.75ec in that event—a Buller and Canterbury record, and only o.7sec off the New Zealand junior record. Tayler was not extended to win that race and also the mile.

Another impressive winner was the New Zealand marathon champion, G. McKenzie, of Greymouth, who took the men’s three-mile title, easily outclassing a fairly strong field. He covered the distance in 14min 18.9 sec. A. Tweedie, Canterbury sprint champion, won the senior men’s 100, 220 and 440 yards events, settijx a new

record of 51.2 sec in the latter race

Two new records —49ft 9|in for the women’s shot put, and 152 ft s{in for the discus, were established by the Empire Games representative, Diane Chatteris in the senior women’s division, and she added a third title in the javelin. Took All Titles Canterbury athletes took all of the titles, L. Fisher, national half-mile champion, winning the 220 and 440 yards events; A. Hordnett the 100 yards; L. Anderson the high jump; B. Gilmour the long jump,, and L Johns the 80 metres hurdles; H. Ruffell (St. Albans) and G Langham (High School Old Boys), next to Taylor, were the best performers in the junior men’s section. Ruffell won the discus throw and shot put, and Langham the 100 and 220 yards events. S. Jolly (H. 5.0.8. won the 440 yards; T. Fleming (Westport), the javelin, and McVicar (Reefton) the long jump. •. Junior Events The Technical girls, J. Horton (with wins in the discus, javelin and shot put), L. Johns (the 100 yards and 80 yards hurdles), and L. Anderson in the 220 yards race, almost swept the pool in the junior women’s section. Cycling Events R. Hogan, of Canterbury, won the senior mile and two-mile.

cycle titles, but J. Cleary outclassed the field in the threemile events, going to the front early and winning easily.

Tennis Trophy To Northland

(N.Z. Press Association) WHANGAREI. Northland scored a convincing 9-3 win over Wellington in the final Nunneley Casket women’s tennis match of the season, at Whangarei during the week-end. The two top Northland players, Mrs E. Mitchell and Mrs P. Stevens, were in brilliant form and won all their games in stright sets. Wellington’s best player was the number three, Mrs I. Vause, who won one singles match and teamed up with Miss S. Pope to score in a doubles game.

This is the first time NorthLand has won a national teams’ tennis trophy.

Mardon First In Hill Climb

G. Mardon, driving a Stanton Corvette, recorded the fastest time, 21.395ec, in the Canterbury Car Club’s hill climb at the Sign of the Kiwi yesterday. There were 20 starters. Results: —G. Mardon (Stanton Corvette), 21.395ec, 1; L. Bryant (Cooper Vincent), 22.23, 2; A. Rhodes (260 M Zephyr Special), 23.23, 3; K. Rout (Austin A3O), 25.60, 4; R. Wasley (M.G. Sports), 25.75, 5; A. Hyde (Austin-Vauxhall), 26.29, 6; B. Eatwelil (Morris-Ford), 27.05, 7; G. Whelan (Austin A3O), 27.40, 8; I. Farrier (Austin A3O), 27.70, 9: G. Williams (Anglia), 27.72, 10; J. Gray (Lotus 7 Special), 28.05, Hi G. Smith (Austin-Healey), 28.66, 12;