AMATEUR ATHLETICS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 2

AMATEUR ATHLETICS

CENTRE CHAMPIONSHIPS. A provisional toa.ni to represent tho Kia Toa Club at the West Coast (North Island) Centro athletic championships, to be hold at Wanganui, has been chosen us follows: —High jump, K. Galloway, V. Nix; long jump. R. L. Kay, H. Lang; hop, step and jump, R. L. Ivay; 100 yards and 220 yards, C. E. Barraud, B. Synott; 440 yards, C. McVicar; 880 yards, C. McVicar, E. Haydon; mile, L. Hawthorne, E. Ilaydon; three miles, L. Hawthorne; shot putt, C. E. Barraud; 100 yards and 220 yards junr, D. Ryan, R. Langley, S. Burns; 880 yards and mile junior, A. Cozens; women’s running events, Mrs V. Rollerson, Miss A. Wilson and Miss P. Wilson; women’s field events, Miss A. Wilson: women’s relay, Mrs V. Rollerson, Misses A. Wilson, P. Wilson and D. Todd. KIA TOA CLUB. Owing to their having participated in tho Manawatu amateur athletic championships the previous evening, several of tho Kia Toa Club’s athletes did not take part in the meeting of the club held at tiio Sportsground last evening. Ail excellent race resulted in the llireoquarter mile event, in which L. Hawthorne, tho Manawatu mile champion, was narrowly defeated by C. McVicar, a-,-yards and 880 yards champion, who was conceded a start of 12 yards. J. Millar (25 yards) ran a well-judged race to linisn a yard behind Hawthorne. Details are: 85 yards.—J. Simpson (6i yards) 1, A. Crawford 2, C. E. Barraud (scr) 3; time, 9 l-£sec. 220 yards.—Crawford (10) 1, Barraud (scr) 2, Simpson (8) 3; time, 24 l-ssec. Three-quarter mile. —C. McVicar (12) 1, L. Hawthorne (scr) 2, J. Millar (24) 3; time, 3min. 24 3-ssec. High jump.—Barraud (scr) and G. 11. Kay (lin) equal 1; height, sft. Women’s 85 yards.—Miss D. Sehwabo (14) 1, Mrs V. Rollerson (scr) 2, Miss B. Sehwabo (13) 3; time, lQsec. Women’s 220 yards.—Miss P. Wilson (26) 1, Miss Sehwabo (40) 2, Miss D. Todd (27) 3; time, 25 l-6scc.