DONOVAN TO FIGHT CROWLE

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 5

DONOVAN TO FIGHT CROWLE

RETURN BOUT ON JANUARY 16. T. Donovan and T. Crowle have been matched to fight their return bout at New Plymouth on January 16. TE AROHA SPORTS. McCANN SECOND IN CYCLING. Te Aroha, December 27. Eighteen professional athletes from all parts of New Zealand competed for cash prizes aggregating £lBO at Springdale yesterday. A. Watson won the principal running events, Stace (Te Aroha) winning the chief cycling events from McCann (New Plymouth). J. C. Larkin and J. Mac Cormack dead-heated in the fifteen-inch standing chop for a purse of £3O. Results are: — 100 Yards. —Elliott (94yds.), 1; Maloney (7yds.), 2; Whitton (11yds.), 3. Time, 9 4-ssec. 220 Yards. —Watson (7yds.), I; Maloney (17yds.), 2; Read (18yds.), 3. Time, 21 440 Yards Handicap—Walker (28yds.), 1; Sharkey (28yds.), 2; Read (30yds.), 3. Time, 494 sec. 880 Y r ards Handicap.—Watson (50yds.), 1; Walker (30yds.), 2; Morrisey (12yds.), 3. Time, Imin. 58sec. One Mile Cycle Handicap—A. Pilkington (85yds.), 1; Coleman (100yds), 2; Coulton, *3. Time, 2min. 24sec. Two Miles Cycle Handicap.—O. Stace (110yds.), 1; McCann (scr.), 2; Harcourt (scr.), 3. Time, smin. 12|sec. Three Miles Cycle Handicap. —Stace (145yds.), 1; McCann (scr.), 2; Coleman (230yds.), 3. Time, 7min. 46sec.