GAMES FOOT RACE

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32362, 30 July 1970, Page 18

GAMES FOOT RACE

Financial support for the Christchurch Commonwealth Games fund stimulated by a foot race today between a woolbroker and a publican had been already outstanding, said the woolbroker, Mr R. G. Woodward, last evening. ‘‘What started as an idea a few days ago has already brought in about $2OO for the Games fund,” he said. The race will start at the Gresham Hotel at 1 p.m. between Mr Woodward and the former All Black wing threequarters, Mr M. J. Dixon. At present the odds are on Mr Woodward who, when business demands permit, occasionally runs round Hagley Park in the lunch hour. He is a former member of the Rover Scouts Harrier Club and has had three runs with the club this season. He also occasionally goes for a jog up the hill behind his residence at Mount Pleasant Mr Woodward said he hoped the race would be the start of a lot of other fundraising ventures of a similar kind. The idea began when a Cashel Street publican, Mr C. Murray, quizzed Mr Woodward about his lunch-time jogging and asked him how long it took to run round the 'park.