REMARKABLE SCHOOLBOY SPRINTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 4

REMARKABLE SCHOOLBOY SPRINTER.

■■-'/. . .. ■ ' • In September of last year, L. B. Betts, of the St. Jeppe High School (ftkmth Africa), when |7 years of age, ran 100 yards in lOsec and 440 yards r^u 50s©o, and the cable tells us that last month, exactly a year later, at an ihter-schooi meet,' Betts covered 100 yards in 48 2-ssec. .;■ All going well, this young Springbok should make things interesting at the next Olympiad—Paris, 1924. ,