PORRITT’S GREAT RUN
UNIVERSITY REGARD TIME. ' NINE AND X INE-TENTHS. Reuter’s Telegram. ' (Received March 22. 5,5 p.m.) LONDON, March 21. In the inter-universitv sports, at th« Queen’s dub, Oxford beat Cambridge, * winning six events against five. A. E. Porritt, the New Zealand Rhode* scholar, won the 100 yards by • li yards in 9 9-10sec~a university reC °ln the 220 yards. Lord Burghley beat Porritt by four yards. Time,,24 4-Sscc—a university record. Burghley boat Porritt in the 1-0 yards hurdles also. He won by three yards, in 15 4-ssec-Porritt's time in the 100 yards is equal to the time in which H. M. Ab- » rahams, the Olympic 100 metres champion, won the 100 yards at the British athletic championships last year. The World’s record is 9 (LlQsoc. ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 9
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