VOSSELER SHIELD

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 287, 1 September 1941, Page 5

VOSSELER SHIELD

Scottish Harriers Win For

Eleventh Year

The Scottish Harrier Club won the 10-mile teams race for the Vosseler Shield which was held at Lyall Bay on Saturday. This is the eleventh year in succession in which Scottish have won the shield. The first seven men home from each club counted for the shield, and seven Scottish men were in the first 12 places. The course led along Lyall Bay beach, where the high tide drpve the runners up on to the soft sand the first time round, then through the lupins behind the Miramar golf’links and over the hills to Scots College. Friday night’s rain had turned the track here into a muddy rivulet in places. From Scots College the runners went through Miramar and along Broadway and Onepu Road back to Lyall Bay, then round the same course again to finish down Freyberg Street. C. Dickie, Brooklyn, and I<. D. O Mynn, University, who won the New Zealand University title the previous Saturday, were soon ahead of the field. Dickie led lor most of the first lap, but OUlynn moved up and was running well some distance ahead of Dickie nearing the end of the second lap, when he took'a wrong turning. Dickie passed him and went on to win. Not so many runners as last year completed the arduous course. Teams were reduced from 10 men to seven because ot tlie inroads the war has’ made on membership of clubs. Individual placings were: C. Dickie (Brooklyn), ufimin. 4sec., 1; B- D. O'Flynn (University), 59.11, 2; C. Bruce (Scottish), 59.52, 3; T. Bartlett (Scottish), 60.50, 4; A. Stevens (Scottish), 5; F. Silver (‘Scottish), 6; T. Parkin (Wellington), 7; W. Owens (Wellington), 8; R. Hallantyne (Scottish), 9; A. Bourgois (Scottish), 10. Teams placings were: Scottish (Bruce, Bartlett, Stevens, Silver, Ballantyne, Bourgeois and Jones), 49, 1; Wellington, 130, 2; Univessity, 1_71 L 3; Brooklyn, 214, 4 ; Presbyterian, 237, 5; Methodist. 305, 6.

In presenting the shield to the president of the Scottish Club, Mr. W. Ballantyne, sen., Mr. F. W. Vosseler warned him that he must steel his heart to losing it one of these days. Mr. Ballantyne said that would not happen while he was with the club. Once the Scots got their hands on anything it was hard to take it away from them.