BRILLIANT SPRINTER
Victorian Champion For Centennial Games Rec. 6 p.m. MELBOURNE, Dec. 11. Victoria’s leading sprinter, Murray Morris, has been selected to go to New Zealand for the Centennial Games in place of the national titleholder, Edwin Carr, who withdrew with sprained leg muscles., The Amateur Athletic Union of Australia agreed yesterday that Morris should represent Australia after the Victorian Athletic Associaton had presented Morris’s credentials Morris, who is improving brilliantly with every run, covered the 220 Yards in 22 seconds on Saturday around sharp turns and against a strong head wind in the straight. The youngest team ever to represent Australia at water polo has been picked to compete at the Canterbury Games. The average age is 21. and the team captain. Leon Ferguson, is the oldest at 27. The team is: Goal. D. Laing: backs—L. Ferguson, R. Smee. J. O’Doherty: forwards—P. Bennett. R. McKinder. Y 7. Orchard. K. Whitehead, I. McLaren.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27570, 12 December 1950, Page 7
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