AUSTRALIA TOUR FOR ATHLETES

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32114, 9 October 1969, Page 19

AUSTRALIA TOUR FOR ATHLETES

The New Zealand junior javelin champion, L. Dalzell, will be one of a group of leading Canterbury athletes who will visit Australia with the Toe H club during the Christmas-New Year period.

A party of 40, including 20 athletes, will represent toe club in Australia. It will leave on Christmas Eve and will compete in several meetings before returning a fortnight later, on January 9.

The climax to toe visit will be the annual contest against the Power House men and the Box Hill women at Melbourne on January 8. The party will also visit Adelaide at the time of the Victoria-South Australia interstate meeting early in January.

Apart from Dalzell, who will be competing in senior ranks this season, the touring party will have another nationally ranked javelin thrower, D. C. Leary. He is capable of more than 200 ft with the senior javelin and has been placed in the national championship several times. Strong Sprinters

Two of the province’s most promising young sprinters will also tour. They are J. Bailey and M. Chapman. Bailey shares the Canterbury junior 100 yd record of lOsec with D. Berry (Old Boys). Chapman, who joins senior ranks this season, previously held the record at lO.lsec. The finest young female sprinter Canterbury has produced for some time, Miss L.

Trimble, will also be seeking experience in Australia. She is only 14 but is already running times comparable with many senior sprinters.