AMERICAN ATHLETES.
' KIRKSEY IN GREAT FORM. [37 telegraph.—press association.] " PALMERSTON NORTH, Sunday. Ideal weather prevailed on Saturday for the appearance of i the American athletes, Kirksey and Merchant. Krogness was prevented; from participating owing to an injury. " The chief results- were: -, ' *. lOOYds.— (scr). 1; Wilton (7iydß). 2; Strange (Byds), 3. Time, 10 l-ss. Kirksey snatched a victory 2yds 'from the tape in' spite of stumbling at the start. \ 220Yds.—Kirksey (sor), 1; Wilton (16yds), 2; Strange (17yds), 3. Time, 22 l-ss. Won by a yard. v ' . ' , Kirksey (syds back),Vl Mullins (40yds), 2; Strange (30yds), 3. Time. 52 2-58.: ' '■ ; ■ Merchant won the hammer Vthrow with 161 ft. 3in., and the javelin throw with ■ 16Gft.' . Discus.— (scr). 131 ft! llin., 1; Merchant (scr). jl2sft. Bin.. '2; In an exhibition throw of the hammer subsequently, Munro, 45ft. 2in., beat Merchant,," 45ft. v'-i CARR COMING TO NEW ZEALAND. „E. S. Carr. the - brilliant New South Wales champion athlete, who has been invited to the Dominion to compete against the American athletes, is due to arrive at Auckland from Sydney by the Manuka tomorrow. Carr will go straight through tc> Wellington, where he will first ; meet the Americans a", a ' provincial championship meeting on Saturday. He will remain at Wellington for the New Zealand amateur athletic championships, to be decided at Wellington on February 24. - Carr will then travel North with the American team, competing at Cambridge and finally at Auckland on Saturday, March 3. ■ :%• " The American athletu, V. C. G. Krogness, a member of ; ; the team from the United States now touring New Zealand, who - sustained ■ a serious i sprain while competing in the • broad jump at the meeting on the Domain, has made a slow recovery.r Krogness left by the Main Trunk express lant evening for New Plymouth, -where he will join the other members. J. W. Merchant and M. Kirksey. who .competed at the meeting , there on Saturday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18322, 12 February 1923, Page 4
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