ATHLETICS.
CHRISTCHURCH, July 19. The annual canterbury cross-coun-try athletic championship was won by E- B. F. Taylor, who did the, six and a half miles in 42min JOscc. J. McKee was second. PARIS, July 18. Dominion representatives were prominent in an athletic meeting held at the Stade Colombes. The New Zealander, Porritt, won the hundred metres flat in eleven seconds. Tlie South African, Pizhtman Smith won the 110 metres hurdles, and also- was third HELSINGFORS, July 18 In a relay race, the Viborg team, composed of Nurmi, Liewendahl, Kat’-., and Koivunalko, covered six thousand metres in sixteen minutes eleven onethird seconds, stated to be a world’s record.
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Grey River Argus, 20 July 1926, Page 6
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