ATHLETICS.
NOTES AND COMMENTS. Horine, the world';? record-hoi Jor, wMi - ''■ practising recently cleared 6ft BJiu in a ; running high jump. At tho Olympic trials at Harvard, U.S.A,* ;|J a competitor, M. S. Wright, in the polevaulting, cleared 13ft 2£in-~ world's record. ~ The forty-sixth annual athletic Kafcheirn* of tho United Hospitals Association was held at Stamford Bridge, London, on Juno <■', ■ 11, under very favourable coalitions. A, feature of tho meeting was tho running of " ,T. G. Skeet, the New ZnJaider, who 'lay ' * winning the furlong in 22 1»55., and tho : . quarter-mile in 50 2-5.-., accomplished two ! sterling performances, and established new ' records ior the meeting. Skset, who is a - ; ..'' student at St. Thomas's Hospital, is a «m of Mr. H. 'M. Skeet," Commissioner c? Crown Lands at Auckland. A few years- "' ago Skeet won all the principal trophies for ' " j running at Nelson College, and gave every '.- promise of coming into tho front rank ofi ; I runners. ________ ■ "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 9
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