NEW MILE RECORDS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 4

NEW MILE RECORDS

WELLINGTON COLLEGE SPORTS

A■• long-stancling record was broken yesterday at the preliminaries to the Wellington College sports when R. A. Longley ran the senior mile in 4min 49 3-ssec. The previous record stood to the credit oi' L. C. Blundell, who, as long: ago as 19(2, returned 4min 50 1-5 sec. Prior to (lat the best figures had been made by 'V. H. Pollock, who later became the Neiv Zealand quarter, half, and mile champion. Several runners approached B'.undell's time, among them being the late Brian Goodbehere, one of the greatest schoolboy athletes of'any time in any country, but it remained for Lonsley to break it.

. Lon'gley is or.c of the best all-round athletes Wellington College has had for a considerable time. He broke the cross-country record by 19 seconds recently, and is in addition a good sprinter arid hurdler. He fan the first 440 yards of yesterday's race in 60 seconds,, exceptionally fast !time for a lad of seventeen. Officials expected him to crack up, but he finished full of running to defeat Barge and Jackson, after having made all-his own "pace. His time incidentally was faster than the inter-college record of 4min 52 2-ssec made by A. S. Henderson, of the Hutt Valley High School, in 1929. The record'for the junior mile was also , broken., The winner was B. J. .Warring, with Sinclair/second and Aston third. Warring's'time was smin 10 l-ssec, which broke the previous best of smin 11 l-ssec established by L. R. Bush in 1933.. - - <. -