BRITISH TEAM

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1934, Page 22

BRITISH TEAM

The cabled announcement from London this week that R. Murdoch (Scotland), G. L. Sampling (England), J. V. Powell (England), and R. M Oraske (England) have been selected to leave London on December 8 for Australia, and that there is a possibility of the team visiting New Zealand later, is pleasing news, provided, of course, that the team comes on to tho Dominion. Of those selected, one, R. M. Craske, is not so well known. G. L. Ramp Hug is regarded as one of the best quarter-milers Britain has had, though at various periods he has suffered breakdowns iv health. He appears, howovor, to be in tip-top shape again. At the British Empire Games in August he won the quar-ter-mile on a soaked and battered track and on' a windy day in 48sec, beating the British record of 48 2-sseij and the English native record of 48} sec. Rampling is a stylist, and it has been said of him that a mcro recital of his times gives no idea of the standard of his running. J. V. Powell ran fourth in the British Empire Games half-mile, won by Phil Edwards (British Guiana) in lmin. 54 l-ssec, and R. Muraoch was fifth in the final of tho 100 yards at the Games and fourth in tho final of the 220 yards. Powell won his heat in the half-mile in lmin 56 l-ssee, and Murdoch was also first in fast time in his heats of the two sprints—lOsec for the 100 yards and 22 4-ssee for the furlong. A. W. Sweeney (England) won the finals of both sprints, but apparently ho is unavailable.