ATHLETICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12263, 26 May 1934, Page 9

ATHLETICS.

WOMEN ATHLETES TO TRAVEL ALOWE. SEX DANGER TQ TEAM SPIRIT. CAPETOWN, March 1. Because of the “glad eye” danger and sex influence, the South African men and women competitors for the British Empire games to be held this summer will be sent to England in separate ships. Explaining the decision at a meeting of the South African Olympic and Empire Games Association, the secretary said that it had been the experience of managers of previous teams that the women, being as a rule in the minority, had -no lack of of c-avaliers.

Tliis, he said, led to constant bickering, and once the predatory instincts of the male were aroused the team’s esprit do corps was destroyed. The women will sail in the UnionCastle liner Warwick Castle on June 15 mnd the men in the Balmoral Castle, of the same line, on June 22.

POLE-VAULT record It is reported from San Francisco that B. W. Deacon, of Stanford University, broke the world’s record for the pole vault, with a vault of 14ft. 2-Jin., at nn athletic meeting there a few weeks ago. It has, of course, yet- to be approved by the American Athletic Union and the International A.A. Federation before it c-an stand as a new re cord. The official record, at the moment. is 14ft. lfiu:, made by W. Miller, also of Stanford University in the Olympic Games of 1932. at Los Angeles.