HIGH JUMP RECORD
EQUALLED BY E. PHILLIPS iUuited Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A high jump equalling the best previous performance by a New Zealander marked a handicap meeting conducted by the Wellington Amateur Athletic Centre at Haitaitai Park on Saturday. E. Phillips, who has been jumping at or near the 6 ft mark throughout the season, was credited with a leap of 6ft liin, equalling M. H. Chadwick's best New Zealander’s performance last year. Recognition of Phillips’s efforts as a record was precluded by the removal of the bar before the height could be measured by a steel tape. At the uprights the bar w,as .raided .to 6ft lfin, but when the measurement in the centre was made the height was given as 6ft The probable help given by a strong wind, and the absence of a surveyor to make the necessary measurements of the bar and the take-off. were other factors against the application for a record. Phillips made subsequent attempts with the bar at 6ft 2in at tho uprights, but could not succeed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 January 1939, Page 9
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