ATHLETICS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 5

ATHLETICS.

N.S. W. 'CHAMPIONSHIPS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGUi) SYDNEY, March 11. Results of the State athletic championships are: — 220 Yards. —J. Carlton 1. Time, 22 3-dsec. SBO Yards. —C. Stuart 1. Time, lmin o/ 3-osec. One Mile Walk. —F. Chapman 1. Time, Cmin. 35 3-ssec. 440 Yards Hurdles. —11. Scott 1. Time, OOsec. Throwing 'the Discus. —M. Saar, 117 ft. 7in., 1. Throwing 161 b Hammer —M. 0 ’Brion 123 ft 10 Jin. 1. Pole Vault. —A. Floyd and W. Clarke tied at 10ft Sin, and Floyd won the jump-off at lOflt lin. Punning hop, step and jump.—C. Ebert 46ft 44in., 1. Women’s 100yds. —Miss E. Robinson 1. Time, 12sec. Punning High Jump. —‘Miss I. Winter 4ft 81in (a State record). Running Broad Jump. —iMiss I. Winter 14ft 91in (a State record). VISITORS AT WANGANUI MEETING (IV I'KI.I'OI* * »*M "’HKSI" WANGANUI, March 11. Tiie main, athletic 'season here concluded on Saturday night--with a special sports meeting at which J. W. Savidan, of Auckland, the loading distance man, nnd J. Standen and I). Gray, Australian champion cyclists, were notable unmet iters. 1 , In good times Standen won the ha m'le, the one and a. half miles, and t; t i-,hie-s miles la.p, A grade cycles, wit.; Gray second in the lap race. Gray won ■’P mile from scratch, and Standen was second- Scarfe and Morris (A ellington) and Wakeley (Wanganui) were also prominent. n -id in was beaten decisively m tr.e sprint homo in the mile flat by s?v«n yards, R. McDonald. Palmerston No r to, wing toe winner. McDonald, had a favourable mark, but ear’ier in t" e evening he won the half-mile. The Palmerston North runners practiea.lv scooped the pool. The best AVanganui men were absent.