VOSSELER SHIELD

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 9, 11 July 1938, Page 8

VOSSELER SHIELD

RECORD ENTRY

SCOTTISH WIN

The record number of 142 harriers took part in the annual run for the Vosseler Challenge Shield on Saturday afternoon and followed a trying twolap course. Although the honour of being first man home is naturally keenly contested, the event is principally an inter-club race, the first ten men of one club to finish forming the winning team.

The race started at the western end of Lyall Bay and the course, for the first lap, lay along the beach to Moa Point, over the hill near the Miramar golf links to Monorgan Road, along Devonshire Road, Calabar Road, Coutts Street, across the Exhibition ground to Endeavour Street, and down Onepu Road to the beach. The second lap was the same except that the runners went down Freyburg Street to finish.

A fast pace was set from the start, and by the time they reached Moa Point the runners were well spread out. When they reached the Exhibition site for the first time J. Riddington was unlucky in that he carried on past the turning point and lost a lead of about 150 yards. The first six to complete the first lap were as follows, in the order given:—G. Prosser (Brooklyn), A. A. Bourgeois (Scottish), J. Riddington (Scottish), C. Bruce (Scottish), R. D. Scrymgeour (University), and D. Walker (Methodist). Quite a crowd waited at Freyburg Street to see the finish. J. Riddington arrived first, and his time was 55min 35sec.

The winning club was Scottish, and the team was composed of J. Riddington, A. A. Bourgeois, C. Bruce, W. Scoble, A. L. Stevens, G. Foster, T. Bartlett, S. Woodley, J. Garty, and R. Violich.

Tne order in which the clubs were placed and their points are:— Scottish, 129; Presbyterian, 386; Olympic, 436; Wellington, 437; University, 507; Methodist, 515; Brooklyn, 559; C.V.M., 871.

After the race the donor of the shield, Mr. F. W. Vosseler, presented the shield to the winning club and medals to the first three men home and the personnel of the Scottish team. . .

The Scottish Club won the shield last year and J. Riddington was first home on that occasion also. A number of the others who came in in the first thirty or so were also well up on the list in the last contest.