NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18059, 6 April 1922, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Canterbury College athletic team which i» to take part in the inter-university tournament at Easter, is regarded as a much stronger combination than that which did service for the college last year. It includes two particularly fine athletes in W. H. B. Btickhurst, the New Zealand hurdles champion, and R. 0. Page, a promising middle-distance runner, who has been performing well in amateur athletics at Chfistchurch. Buckhurst is to represent Canterbury in the broad and high .jumps, and it is practically certain that if in form he will win the 120 yds hurdles. K, Saxon, the young New Zealand athlete, competing at the Cambridgo University sports, ia roported to have won the broad jump with a good effort of 21ft Win. Saxon is a prominent figure in Cambridge athletics, and was one of the best players in the Cambridge Rugby team during the BCtaon. Mr. Ira Emery, manager of the boutn African athletic team which recently toured New Zealand, anticipates a loss ill connection with the tour, but ia well satisfied with the results from an athletic point of view and the benefits that will accrue from tho trip. . ~ The latest performances of the South African team at the Tasmanian championships on Saturday are interesting, if only for the fact that Bukes defeated Oosterlaak in the 100 yds by inches in 10s, establishing a Tasmanian record. Oosterlaak, however, won the '.BOyds championship in 22 2-ss, and registered a new Tasmanian record. E. G. Sutherland the New Zealand allround athlete, who joined up with the South Africans, won the 120 yds hurdles in 17 4-ss, and also won the high jump with 6ft 6in. , , E. G. Sutherland, the well-known Wellington and New Zealand champion athlete, who is on his way to South Africa, put. up some good performances with tho Springboks in Sydney, among them being a new Australasian record for the javelin throwing—l74ft 7in. Sutherland is, in every sense, an all-round athlete. He numbers cricket, football, and athletic* among his - accomplishments, and the fact that he is a topnotcher in the last-mentioned branch is proved by the fact that he has won no fewer than eight New Zealand championships. Born in the Dominion in 1891, he ie of Scotch parentage, and first demonstrated his Bportine capabilities while at Palmerston North High School. He frequently represented his school on the cricket field/in addition to exhibiting his prowess in athletics. He joined the Wellington A.A.C. in 1916, and immediately specialised in field games. The Great War nhen intervened, and Sutherland saw four years' service, being twice wounded (in Egypt and France). Upon his return to his native land he showed championship form, and was one of the men solected to visit Sydney for the twelfth biennial championships of Australasia in 1920, but was unable to make the trip. .At the New Zealand championship meeting he established a new Australasian record for the javelin, hurling the implement 171 ft 10m. He was a Dominion representative at the Australasian championship meeting in Adelaide at the commencement of the present year, but he met with a mishap in the pole vault, and was sorely handicapped in the javelin ovent by a badly-sprained ankle. The winner upon that occasion—A. W. Reid (N.S.W.V-was responsible for further bettering the record, and prior to Sutherland's performance, Reid's figures of 178 ft s!in were the best yet accomplished in this section of the globe. Sutherland, who joined the Civil Sen-ice in 1913, is now proceeding to Bouth Africa to take a -position on Mr. Leathern's farm, after which he intends to settle in Johannesburg to acquire mining experience. At a meeting in Madison-Square Garden. New York, in February, John . Murphy cleared 6ft 4tin. for a new indoor high jump record. Mumhy certainly deserves to be rated among the two or three greatest-high jumpers on record. He has been a consistent eft 4in jumper for the last three years. At the Olympic tryouts held in Boston vn 1920 he cleared 6ft 4iin by 4in, and when he tried for a new world's record with the bar at 6ft 7|in he just barely failed to clear it. Recently he jumped 6ft lin with a sweater and trousers on, and had inches to spare,