EN ROUTE TO MELBOURNE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18528, 15 October 1934, Page 8

EN ROUTE TO MELBOURNE

CANADIAN ATHLETES STRONG COLLEGE TEAM (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A team of Canadian college athletes to compete at the inter-Empire events in Melbourne arrived; by the Makura from San Francisco, and will continue the journey to Sydney to-morrow, accompanied by the New Zealand team of college athletes. The Canadian party is under Dr. A. S. Lamb, of McGill University, Montreal, and consists ol L. .). Fleming, T. M. Ferris, W. J. Homer (captain), 11. Jansen, M. N. Union, J. W. Loafing, IF M. McPhee, R. Mitchell, A. Zizis, S. Richardson, W. G. Savage, and E. C. Wares. The boys were chosen after a series of trials in different provinces, and a national sports meeting. Richardson is a negro aged 15 years, who won the long jump at the British Empire Games, London, iii August. Wares, who comes from Calgary, broke the inter-scholastic record for putting ‘tlie shot, with 48ft. 4|in., which is better than the best performance by a New Zealander. Jansen is from Stevensville. Ontario, and beat the high jump record i.f 6ft. ljjin. by gin. The team was met by Mr. 11. McCormick, chairman of the Secondary Schools Athletic Committee, and members of the N.Z.A.A.A,, and also by Mr. H. I. Austad, another member of the N.Z.A.A.A. council.

The team is having a workout on the Wellington College grounds to-day.