ATHLETICS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 198, 4 August 1928, Page 2

ATHLETICS

AUSTRALIAN CYCLING TRIALS. CHOOSING AN OLYMPIC REP. Amsterdam. Aug. 3. A 100 metres cycle trial'as a guidance to the selection of Australia’s representative Olympiad team, resulted in Standen beating Gray 'by two lengths, after a sprint which commenced 250 metres from the finish. Standen immediately jumping ahead. Ho further improved his position round the turn, where Gray was slightly crowded in. On time an awkward situation was created, both men taking 1 min 14 3-5 secs, though in Gray’s case one watch registered 1 min 15 1-5 secs. This is tho best time on trial Gray has ever done. Both were hampered by a number of other competitors training on tho Stadium track. A selection is to bo made this afternoon.

Tho test was necessary because Stautlon and Gray were sent over under tho impression that each nation was «llowed two competitors in the 1000 metres event, whereas only one is permitted.

ATHLETICS FOR WOMEN CRITICISED. (Australian and N.Z Press Assn.l London, Aug. 3. The collapso of several women athletes in the 800 metres final at the Olympiad, when they fell at the s’de of the tracks, apparently suffering from dangerous strain has aroused adverse medical comment here. One specialist declares that women are not physically built to undergo the -strain of races. Nature made woman to bear children. She cannot rid huself of fat to the extent necessary for the physical fitness demanded by feats of extreme endurance.