STILL GOING WELL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 8

STILL GOING WELL

HURDLES RECORD HOLDER SHARPLEY OVERSEAS The . former New Zealand hurdles champion, P. F. Sharpley, ran a notable race on the Trinity • College grounds, Dublin, last month when he won the 120yds. hurdles event in 15 l-ssec., only l-ssec. outside his New Zealand record established in the 1938-39 season. Now 34 years of age, Frank Sharpley, formerly of Hastings, won the New Zealand 120yds. hurdles title in the 1933-34 season as a representative of the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay centre and was the 120 and 220yds hurdles rbimoion for four seasons. The recent

lace lie won at Dublin was one of a programme which attracted, among otheis of an international field, the West Indians, McDonald Bailey and Wmt, both considered by Dr A E. Poras iin work! class,' and Jack ciTJ.'T n European sprint champion. Shaiplcy these days is assistant coach at the Loughborough school of athletics As an ofi icer ot the 19th Battalion, he was captured at Ruweisat Ridge on July 15, 1942, when German bro, re through to round up large numDers of New Zealanders of'the 4th and oth Brigades. Sharpley spent the lest of the war in captivity, and on P VGn a bursary for an athletics scholarship in England.