ATHLETICS AT HOME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17658, 23 June 1919, Page 6

ATHLETICS AT HOME

(From Otjb Own Cobkespondent.) LONDON, April 19 At' tho sports of the Eastbourne Athletio Olub, on Easter Monday, the Mile Relay Race was won by tho New Zealand team D. L. Mason, J. Lindsay, P. W. Juno, and J. Wilton. Tune, 3min 52sec. At the Easter Monday Vickers A.C at Crayford, in Kent, A. H. Wilson (New Zealand) won the 100 Yards Handicap in 10 3-sseo. INTER-ALLIED ROWING. An international rowing race on the Seine on Sunday, over a distance of 2600 metres (a little over 1£- miles) was won after various heats by • tho New -Zealand crew who beat the American crew. The French representatives came third, and the Newfoundlanders fourth. The winning time was 9min 28sec. The course was across Pans—botwen the Royal and Jena bridcea —and the' American team led' until a-quar-ter ofamfle from, the finish, when the New Zealanders challenged and eventually won by Bft. France was 100 yards behind Other competitors in addition to Newfound' land, wore Alsase-Lorraine and Portugal Tho race was witnessed by the New Zealand Premter and Generals and Henderson Roughly speaking, the prime oost of tho always of _the United Kingdom was £56000 a mile, a sum which is nearly double the cost of construction in any other country in tho world. The French, railways, for instance, have cost only £28.000 per mflo; the Russian, £18 800whilo the Swedish lines -were built for' a price not exceeding £7000 a mile, or just one-eighth of what Great Britain paid Your cough troubles you most at night, just when retiring, and yon have difficulty in getting off to sleep. Try "NAZOL"— it acts like a charm. Is 6d, all chemists It is a curious fact tiiat notwiihstandiiiir its thiokness, the elopkant'e ekia is vctv sensitive.