WELL DONE, NEW ZEALAND!

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 280, 9 July 1924, Page 4

WELL DONE, NEW ZEALAND!

We regretted the defeat of the New Zealand footballers at- Sydney last .Saturday. We rejoice to-day over the victory of a New Xealander at Paris, in getting the third place in the 100 metres sprint in the Olympiad against the world's best. And the victory has all the more added glory in that it comes through a Rhodes Scholar, Air A. E. Porri.tt, the latest addition to, the noble army of Scholars to join up at Oxford. Mr Porritt, who was known as the greyhound pf the Dominion when h'e was out here, is captain of the New Zealand four representing this faraway spot of earth at the Great Games in the French capital. The details of the sprint, in which the fastest men in ihe world took part/show that in his heats the New Zealand proved himself a champion. To gain third place in the final against such high quality men is a distinct achievement, especially when it 155 considered how the Americans especially and the European, contestants generally have laid themselves out .for the contests with special training advantages that' have not come the way of the Now Zealand athletes. WauganuT'should be proud of is old Jjoy. It is also matter for .satisfaction that the first place in the race w^ s won by tlio fleet Tooted Englishman, Aibrahams. - . .' .- ■