POLE-VAULTING CHAMPION.
YOUN3 ATHLETE'S SUCCESS.
One of the outstanding performances put up at tho Victorian Amateur Athletic championships hold recently was the brilliant pole-vaulting of F. Woodhouse, the 18-year-old athlete and former Vic-
torian public schools' high jump champion. /Registering lift. llin. ho broke y the Victorian and Australian and New Zealand records. It was a capital performance, considering that tho take-off was not good owing to the heavy stato of the ground after rain. Under better conditions it is considered he will be ablo to add six inches to his record. Max Kroger, Geelong, previously had the best figures, lift. 7£in. R. R. .Temploton (United States), who visited Australia in 1914, vaulted a shade over lift., and his figures stood until eclipsed by Kroger. In New South "Wales Templeton cleared lift. which is still a record fpr that Stato. Wooduouso is a son of Mr. Irvine 'Woodhouse, of New Plymouth, and a nephew of Mr. R. L. Woodhouse, of (Auckland-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20819, 11 March 1931, Page 16
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