SCIENCE HELPS SPORT
Science marches hand in hand with sport these days. The latest example' 1 came to light at the recent Golden Jubilee Convention of the American Amateur Athletic Union. It was introduced by the famous American Olympic track coach, Lawson Robertson, and explained by him to delegates. It is a new form of electrical starting device. As the runners crouch at the start metal plates are provided on which they rest their hands. ' The device is so arranged that if any runner lifts his hands from the special pads before the gun is fired, the circuit is ibroken, and it is impossible for the gun to go off. It is practically a foolproof invention for a fair start. land and shipped to New Zealand! through the stud stock department of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, acting as agents. Typically Southdown in appearance, with soft-handling wool, Aldenham 512 combines the blood of some of the most outstanding studs in i Great Britain. l Southdown breeders throughout thfej Dominion will be interested to learn that recent advices received by th2 New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency from London states that the Aldenham stud of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan is to be disposed of on July j 20 by public auction, owing to the owner having relinquished his farming interests.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 10
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