SCHOOLS ATHLETICS
New Records at Auckland By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, April 8. Several records were made and one equalled at the annual secondary schools sports. E. Wordsworth (Sacred Heart College) did 1 2.2 3-5 for the senior half-mile, beating the record by 1 1-5 seconds. A. J. Sayers (Auckland Grammar School) covered 440 yards in 51 2-5, or 4-ssec. better than the previous record. This time is considered a New Zealand schools record. R. B. Cruickshank (Auckland Grammar School) bent the high jump record by 3in.. leaping sft. 7in. _ln the mile. F. E. Watt (Auckland Grammar School), who runs with a crippled right arm in a sling, reduced the record by Usee., doing 4.33 3-5.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 164, 9 April 1934, Page 2
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