POSTLE'S HUNDRED.
FAILS TO BREAK TEN SECONDS,
(BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOOIATION— COPTRIGHT.)
London, September 14,
A. B. Postle, the Australian professional runner, won the Invitation Hundred Yards Handicap at Newcastle, from scratch in three yards outside evens. 1
Acoording to "Miller's Sporting Punphlet, the 100 yds. record is 9 3-ssec., by A. P. Dultey (1002) and D. Kelly (1906), both in America. Postle .holds the world's record for. :50yds., 5 l-ssec. Last month, .at Salford, England, he was defeated in a quarter of a. mile onampionship race by B. R. Day, of Dublin, who won br Byds in 49 l-sseo. The, race, was for .£2OO a-side, and a purse of .£IOO given by. Mr. "Rufe" Naylor. Over the hundred Postle has been credited with lOsec. (grass, in Melbourne, November, 1906), and Day has been credited with 9 i-ssec., in England. /
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 7
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