OTAGO ATHLETICS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 102, 26 October 1929, Page 23

OTAGO ATHLETICS

(By Telegraph.) (Special to -'The Evening Post,")

DUNEDIN, This Dav. a i , M auce"s* leet o{ the Otago Amateur Athletic Centre for the past year showed a credit of £1,0, the largest the centre has had during the past 20 years, despite the laet that the season began with a credit of less than £2, and. that the cost ofv dispatching a team to the New Zealand championships was over, £100. The sport is growing in the outside districts, and there is now a very strong club in Invercargill and another at Oamaru. It is surprising when one considers tha nne performances registered at the various secondary'schools in the'long jum« that the standard is not a higher, one at the Aew Zealand championships. That it is not is probably due to the fact that on leaving school many of those who have done well in the long jump put it aside for some track, event, and continue jumping merely as a side-line," instead of specialising m an event which is probably one of the easiest to win at the Dominion' championships for the specialist. the past week the Otago Boys' High School record was shattered jby R. A. Jolly, the Otago secondary schools' champiou, who did 20ft l%in in the school preliminaries, and ,a week or two back in Christchurch a St. Andrew's College boy, 1. Ensor, cleared over 21 feet at his school sports. The best jump so far as the bouth Island is concerned at any rate is probably that registered by J. N. Millard. While he was a pupil of the Southland Boys High School he cleared 22 feet. While, still at school Millard was a great jumper and all-round athlete, and a year later at the Otago University he did 22ft B%in in the long jump, also representing New Zealand subsequently at the Australasian championships. It ia believed that the best performance by a New Zealand secondary school athlete, however, belongs to an Auckland Gram-: mar School boy with an effort of something like 22ft 4in. Jolly, who broke the Otago record, is a very fine athlete, and he is also expected to make a bold attempt to shatter the existing half-mile record of 2min 10 see. ' . --; "