STAN. LAY AT STAMFORD BRIDGE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 August 1928, Page 10

STAN. LAY AT STAMFORD BRIDGE.

HIGH PRAISE by ENGLISH CRITIC. In my opinion the. be'st performance of the whole meeting was that of S. A. Lay, holder of the New Zealand jave-lin-throwing record of 20Gft, (states a writer in the “News of the World,” in commenting on the British Athletic championship meeting held at Stamford Bridge on July 7th). A‘ week ago, at the" L.A.C. meeting, Lay just, managed to beat 200 ft. During the week'be worked hard; to correct his faults and improve his technique. With Jus second throw he surpassed Bela Szeppe’s British record of 2121’t 7Jin, and witli his final tlirow improved the world’s best from: 218 ft 6 7-Bin to 222 ft 9in. Whether this will prove a final world’s record I .am not prepared to say, since flier-e is before "the I. - an earlier application from Eino Penttila (Finland) for a record of 229 ft 3 3-20 in. But Lay has a month before him, and it will not surprise me if he beats even 230 ft at the Games. __ The surprise of tliis event was that Weight-man-Smitb should at last, and as I liave so often predicted, pull out a throw of over 200 ft. Incidentally lie heat E. Degland, holder of the French record of 214 ft, who could get no further than 195 ft 1-Jin yesterday.