AXEMEN'S CARNIVAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 23 December 1913, Page 5

AXEMEN'S CARNIVAL.

The date for the Eltham Axemen's Carnival is againvdrawihg near. This year the committee have spared neither trouble^ nor.expense in securing the best axemen and cyclists possible. They lave^inauted" a^'iflLUStaralian team/ to make tie trip and enter for all events. This team includes fW. Pech and C.

Miley, who have just finished training on a© Main Trunk line. Pech is physically one of the finest axemen who ever <M>mpetßd in Eltham. standing ©ft. 6in. " in' height^^ and w<bighing 17 stone. He liolds^the world's^: record for chopping am 'ISfincli underhand and ialso holds the championship of Australia for single handedl; sawing. Miley chopped in Ettham iii,l9lo and won the foot cTwwnTOonship of New Zealand, beating I>. Pretty and all other best. New Zealand«rs in the very fast-tittie^of ,36 seconds. The same year be pui up a world's r'e■cbrd at "Taihape in an 18-inch standing block, time lmin. 24secs. The cyclists include JFred^'Jumbo'' Wells, P. Griffin, and the> veterans Campion and A. Tarkes. "Mr Hansen seems to have made * k good job of the handicapping, and, -with fine, weather, there should be some 1 great firiishea. Since last ye?ir;,the trata lias Ibeen: 3one up, the corners banked, nnd re-grassed, and itutnow one of the "best grass tracks1 in the Dominion^ Al- T Vtogether this year's carnival promises iK> be the best ever held. '