SOUTH AFRICAN CONTENDERS FOR EMPIRE GAMES ATHLETIC TITLES Four athletes of the South African team training at the Sydney Showground after their arrival last week. The tall athlete is Edward Thacker, who caused a mild surprise at the 1934 Empire Games in London by winning the high jump at 6ft. 3in. (almost his own height), with the old-fa»fiioned scissors style of jumping. Next to him. in the middle, is A. S. du Plessis, pole vaulter. On the left is S. Kiel, hurdler, and, on the right, ~ C. Le Sueur, the sprinter of the team* , <
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22934, 12 January 1938, Page 18
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94SOUTH AFRICAN CONTENDERS FOR EMPIRE GAMES ATHLETIC TITLES Four athletes of the South African team training at the Sydney Showground after their arrival last week. The tall athlete is Edward Thacker, who caused a mild surprise at the 1934 Empire Games in London by winning the high jump at 6ft. 3in. (almost his own height), with the old-fa»fiioned scissors style of jumping. Next to him. in the middle, is A. S. du Plessis, pole vaulter. On the left is S. Kiel, hurdler, and, on the right, ~ C. Le Sueur, the sprinter of the team* , < New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22934, 12 January 1938, Page 18
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