ON SCHEDULE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 7

ON SCHEDULE

BOOT WINS HALF-MILE

MISS NORMAN BEATEN AGAIN

SYDNEY, February 11

Vernon Boot (New Zealand), won the 880 yards , championship of New South Wales today with consummate ease. Conditions were ideal and Boot was content to lie third for the first lap, which was run at a fast pace.

He strode away before the bell and had a winning margin of 15 yards. He was not at all distressed. When shown the clock, which recorded 1.53, Boot smiled and said: "That's according to the schedule I set."

Brian Dunn, the 17-year-old university sprinter who equalled Carlton's Australian 100 yards record on the opening day found the opposition too formidable in the 220 yards and was beaten into fourth place. He had previously won the junior broad jump. At present this youth is attempting a too strenuous programme.

The Empire Games champion Decima Norman was beaten into third place in the women's,2o yards.' The winner's time was seven-tenths of a second slower than the Australian record established by Miss Norman at the Empire Games. The Western Australian appeared to be overtrained.

Results are:—22o yards (women) Miss Joyce Walker 1, Miss Jean Coleman 2, Miss Decima Normari (Western Australia) 3. Time, 25 l-ssec.

220 yards (men): E. Best (Victoria) 1, J. Mumford (New South Wales) 2, W. J. Burfein (Queensland) 3, D. B. Dunn (New South Wales) 4. Time, 22sec.

880 yards: V. P. Boot (New Zealand) 1, P. Eades (New South Wales) 2, C. Richards (New South Wales) tL Time. I.s3min.

The hop, step, and jump was won by D. L. Miller (New South Wales), 51ft 6 3-Biru