TRACK AND FIELD

Evening Star, Issue 21055, 18 March 1932, Page 5

TRACK AND FIELD

ATHLETIC HEWS AHD NOTES FIXTURES. March 19.—Tokomairiro Club’s annual meeting. , . March 26.—Amateur track and held meet at Waitati DOMINION CHAMPIONSHIPS. After a slump for some seasons athletics came once again into their own, when by far the biggest crowd to patronise an athletic carnival in Auckland lined the banks of the cricket ground and enjoyed one of the finest programmes yet submitted at a dominion championship fixture (states the ‘Auckland Star’). The attendance midway through the afternoon was estimated at 8,000, and the gate should be a satisfactory one. The best athletes from all parts of New Zealand assembled, and though there were some who overshadowed their opponents, it was never to the extent that it robbed an event of interest. Two fresh records weie entered up. The Auckland crack sprinter, A J Elliott, recorded 21 2-ssec in winning the 220vds championship, time which beats anything previously done over that distance in the dominion. In the quarter-mile S. A. Black, the West Coast crack, put up a brilliant run, leading all the way and breasting the tape in the record time for New Zealand of 48 4-ssec. It was a great run. There was a thrill in the three miles run, which was regarded as a good thing for Savidan. As it turned out, he won easily at the end, but when Cooper was stepping along with a two-yards lead rounding tlio home bend Savidan s friends felt anything but happy. However, the champion put in some great work in the straight, and reached the tape well in advance of Cooper, The latter was loudly applauded for his hno Cl The 440yds hurdles had an unfortunate ending. Kerr-Taylor and Malcolm were racing stride for stride at the last hurdle, which both tipped and fell, leaving the Wellington hurdler, Leach, who was well beaten at the time, to come on and win. In the 120yds hurdles Manson (Otago) injured a foot, and was taken to the hospital for attention. No bones were found to be hrouen, but he could not run again during the afternoon.

THE NEW TITLE-HOLDERS. 100 Yards.—A- J. Elliott (Auckland). 220 Yards.—A. J. Elliott (Auckland), 120 Yards Hurdles.—J. W. Shirley (Auckland). , . 440 Yards Hurdles, —H. Leacn (Wellington) . 440 Yards.—S. A. Black (West Coast). , 880 Yards—T. G. Broadway (Canterbury) . One Mile.—G, Bayne (Wellington) Three Miles.—W, J. Savidan (Auckland). Half-mile Walk —R. Cameron (Auck-One-mile Walk. —I. Driscoll (Wellington). —Cycling.— Half-mile.—F. J. Grose (Canterbury) . One Mile.—F. J. Grose (Canterbury). Three Miles—F. J, Grose (Canterbury) . —Field Events. — Hop, Step, and Jump.—A. A. Cameron (Otago). Pole Vault.—W. J. Batstone (Canterbury) . Throwing the Discus.—P. Munro (Wellington). Putting the Shot,—P. Munro (Wellington). High Jump.— I T. J. Crowe (Wellington). Throwing the Javelin.—P. Munro (Wellington). Throwing the Hammer.—J. G. Leckie (Otago). Long Jump—A. A. Cameron (Otago).

FINE MIDDLE-DISTANCE RUNNER. Canterbury amateur athletic clubs and enthusiasts have been looking for years for an athlete of international class. There have been men who could beat anyone in New Zealand, men who could make their presence felt in Australia, among Canterbury champions of recent years, but the search has been for another of the calibre of Randolph Rose, or Don Evans, or Stan. Lay. Now the question arises whether, in young T. G. Broadway (C.A.A.C.), the province has found him (writes J.A.G., in the ‘ Sun Broadway is now in his third track season, and he is twenty years of age. Last summer he impressed as a very smart handicap performer who was likely to improve. This season he has made meteoric progress. Early in the season lie was running about 2.4 for the half-mile, and the selectors of his own club were not certain of his qualification for the team that went to Wellington to defend the .Jeanne Eteveneaux Cup against the Wellington Club. A few days before the team was picked, however, he galloped a half-mile in a little over 2.0, and settled that question. As is known, he went to Wellington and played a big part in the best run over a medley mile that a New Zealand club team has ever made, the time being 3.39 2-5. Broadway astonished everyone by cutting out the half-mile on a heavy track in 1.59. He had shown improvement with every run at the Saturday scratch race meetings, and in his heat of the Canterbury quar-ter-mile championship he created something of a sensation by beating the titleholder, 0. C. Harley (’Varsity) in 0.50 2-5 on a dead track. Harley won the title in that time last season.

Broadway, like G. F. Hart, the 100yds champion, and A. A. Cameron, of North Otago, is an old boy of Waltaki Boys’ High School. He is a quiet, and very modest, athlete, and although lie simply exudes nervous energy, he seems to have big-race temperament.

JOTTINGS. The Winton Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, in conjunction with the Invercargill Cycling Club, will hold a benefit sports day at Winton to-mor-row in aid of Ray Barratt, who was recently seriously injured. The English A.A.A. is considering a suggestion that there should be two men in charge of the start for races on the track—-the duty of one being to effect the actual start; and of the other