"LIKE AN ARROW"

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 23

"LIKE AN ARROW"

BOOT'S BRILLIANCE

In another letter Mr. Kitto gives some details of the second day's events. "Allen and Boot started in the halfmile final, drawing fourth and fifth positions respectively. Both dropped to the rear from the start, but Boot worked his way up to second position at the end of the first lap. He got chopped out again, and dropped back to third position in which he was hemmed in. With 220 yards to go, a hush came over the crowd. Boot had shot away like an arrow, and in thirty

yards made a gap of 15 yards on the others. He increased this to 30 yards at the tape.

"It was unbelievable! But there it Mas, and he finished as fresh as a daisy in lmin 51 2-ssec—a real world class! Allen ran well to finish fourth.

"Quinn ran a fair third in a heat of the 220 yards, but was not up to the class in the semi-final, and faded out near the finish.

"Our girls were outclassed in the relay race. Miss Lumley held her own over the first distance (220 yards), Miss Tong was last at the next change-over, and Miss Strachan could not make up any leeway. Miss Strachan did over 17ft in the broad jump, but, even so, she was well out of it.

"Sharpley won an invitation 220 yards hurdles race impressively in 24 7-10 sec. Poor Jack Morgan, so keen to do well and make a showing, could not do more than just over 119 ft with the discus. It was inexplicable. He did not seem nervous, but just could not make the discus fly. Allan Sayers started in the 220 yards (second heat), but was not near the class."