New Threat To Top Marathon Men
(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI. J. Comber (Palmerston North) could pose quite a problem for New Zealand’s top marathon men, J. Julian, M. Ryan and D. McKenzie, in the national championships in Whangarei next month.
Cracking on the pace right from the start, Comber won his second successive West Coast (North Island) marathon title in Wanganui on Saturday in 2hr 22min 33sec. Comber ran in a variety of conditons from sun and strong winds to driving rain. Julian won the Auckland marathon championship on Saturday, running away over the last six miles. He kept on at a steady pace to win in 2hr 30min 35sec as the two men who had stuck with him for 20 miles, the 31-year-old G. Douglas and the Tokyo Olympian, I. Keats, slowed to a jog in the face of continual: wind.
For Julian, the race was reasonably satisfactory, for he was running for the title, not for times.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31595, 5 February 1968, Page 22
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