TRINIDAD COMPETE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 7

TRINIDAD COMPETE

FITCH ATTEMPTS A RECORD

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) MASTERTON, This Day. Considerable; interest attached to the appearance of members of the Trinidad Empire. Games team at the Masterton amateur athletic sports meeting today. Noel Stanford, off the ten yards mark, won the 440 yards in 50 l<ssec, after a great tussle with the local runner J. Eastwood (syds), the:two competitors ■ breasting the tape almost together. The ~ sprint crack, J. R. N. Cumberbatch, who started from scratch, dead-heated with Hedge (BJyds) for second place in the 100 yards handicap, which was won by the Pahiatua competitor R. Murch off Byds. ■' Cumberbatch, who was feeling' the, effects of travelling, • also . started: in the 220 yards, but was un- : placed. ' ~, John R. Ashmead, who was- ill on the journey, over the Rimutakas, did not compete, but he gave ah exhibition o£ high and, long jumps. In the high jump he cleared 6ft, a feat accomplished by only three New Zealanders. In the long jump, he covered 21ft ■ 4in. •• -' ■'■': ■■':'> ■'' ": )■'■' •■■■■'■'; ■' The manager-of the. team,. J€r:vMv,S. • L. Joseph; a good all-round athlete, was a, starter ,in the 100 and .120 yards events, but was unplaced." • A. Fitch, the American coach at present under contract to the Wellington Centre, made an' attempt on the 130 yds ■ world, record. He \fras paced by a cyclist, who, however, was of little as- ■■ sistsince. He covered the distance in 13 l-10sec, five-tenths of a second short, of : the record. ' ..„ > R P. Barr'er, of Dannevirke, won the mile^event for the Hall Cup in • 4min The1 Feilding cyclist A. H. . Allen .scooped thepool in the cycling events, /■winning the half mile in 63sec, the hmile in 2min 14 l-ssec, the.two miles in 4miti-38 l-ssec,'and the three mileS' ■"in 7min\:so,4-ssec. '■'■ ' The conditions were ideaL ;