LAND & WATER.
BILLIARDS. A WIN FOR M'CONACHY. < LONDON, January 18. Lindrum, 15,600 (including breaks of 1761 and 502), Davis, in play, 12,074 (including breaks of 623 and 634). AFConachy, 23,107 (including breaks of 491 and 444), beat Smith, 22,666 (including breaks of 526 and 510). It was a keen finish, and the Yorkshireman, fighting to the last, was within 150 of M'Conaehy in the afternoon. A feature of Lindrum’s match was his thirty-third four-figure break. lie compiled 1761 in 83 minutes, including 71 I close cannons. MOTOR C'. CLING. KILBIRNIE STADIUM. WELLINGTON, January 13. At the Kilbirnie dirt track stadium to-night W. Kilmister established a new New Zealand record for the mile, rolling start, of Imin 21 2-ssec. L. Lawrence (Brisbane) fell and injured his knee, but not seriously. | NEW ZEALAND RECORD BROKEN. ■WELLINGTON. January 19. At the Kilbirnie dirt track speedway <m Saturday night, Frank Pearce, of Australia, won the International Flying Three-mile Scratch Race. Charles Spinks (Australia) easily defeated W. Kilmister in the Golden Helmet final, establishing a new New Zealand record by I 2-ssec. His time was Imin 20sec. GOLF. AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP. NEW YORK, January 13. In the third round of the open golf championship at Los Angeles Shute was first with a total of 222, while Kirkwood tied for eleventh place with 235.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 51
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