TO-MORROWS ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 21037, 26 February 1932, Page 11

TO-MORROWS ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

Given good weather there should be many outstanding performances at the Otago track and field athletic championships at Carisbrook to-morrow afternoon. Much interest is attaching to the appearance of A. A. Cameron, the star North Otago field athlete, who is expected to go close to New Zealand records in the long jump, hop, step, and jump, and high pump. He has done 47ft 4in in the hop, step, and jump this season, but is expected to improve upon this at Carisbrook to-morrow. Other star field athletes are competing, including R. 0. Johnson, who is expected to have a great struggle with B. Provo in the spectacular pole vault to-mor-row. The quarter-mile should be a wonderful race between the > former Wellington champion, T, Pickering, and the Otago champion, A. L. Price, and the half-mile .and mile should also be splendidly contested races. A. R. Ged- \ des, J. G. Barnes, L. C. M'Lachlan, E. A. Taylor, and J. J. Morris are among the competitors in these events. The ladies’ 100yds has drawn a good entry, and the starters will include Miss M. Barron (ex-Wellington champion), Miss M. M'Lcod (Southland champion), and Miss R. Grant (Otago champion). The hammer throwing should witness a close contest between J. G. Leckie and M. R. Spillane, and the sprints have drawn large entries, and will provide an opportunity of witnessing in competition such good runners as C. W. Pierson, of Invercargill, and H. Pearce, of the Pacific Club. Over twenty clubs will take part in the grand parade at 1.45 p.m., and the athletes will be headed by the Artillery Band.