CALEDONIAN SPORTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10280, 5 January 1922, Page 2

CALEDONIAN SPORTS.

' AT TIMARU

! j FIRST DAY,

The gates on the first day of tho ■Timaru Caledonian sports returned £396, or £3O more than the previous year. Among the visitors were His Excellency the Governor-General and his family who stayed tor a couple of hours.

The Cycling Handicap winners were:—Half-mile—T. Joyce (35yds) 1, P. Hill (40yds) 2. Time,. 60 3-5 sec. Mile and a-half (£3O prize) P. O'Shea (scr) l,,Joyce (65yds) 2. , Time, 3min 15 2-ssec. One Mile — " F. Wells (scr.) 1, Joyce (50yds) 2, . Henry (40yds) 3. Time, 2min 5 2-5 . sec. Scratch Mile (South Canterbury Championship) O'Shea 1, • Joyce 2, Wells 3. Lady Jellicoe decorated O'Shea with the Blue, Ribbon, fixing it over his shoulder ,; with a gold brooch. The Running events resulted as 1 follows:—100 Yards (amateur) —W. Buckhurst (2yds) 1, J. Miller (syds) ;2, Payne (Cyds) 3. Time, 10 2-5 sec. Half-mile—O. W. Smith (60 yds) I, T. McVey (50yds) 2, B. ' Meyer (20yds) 3. Time, 2min lsec. [ 120 Yards (prizes, £44), six heats — ; W. J, Doull,(7Jyds) 1, W. Chudley ; (9yds) 2, W. Barnwell (siyds) 3. ; Time, 11 4-ssec. Half-mile (amaI t'eur)—J. W. Sounness (25yds) 1 " W. L. Bews (scr.) 2, A. McLachlan (scr.) 3. Time, 2min ssec. One mile—W. Smylie' (60yds) 1, Weston (35yds) 2, A. Harris (75yds) 3. : Time, 4miri'37 l-ssec. 220 Yards — :. L. W. Bar well (9yds) 1. A. B. Herd- ; man (11yds) 2, S. David (14yds) 3. Time, 23sec. Quarter-mile (ama- ' teurj—A. McLachlan (Syds) 1, Tres- , sider (12yds) 2, G. G. Graham (18 vds) •3. Time,. 54sec. • Quarter- - mile (open)—O.'Smith (21yds) 1,.; L. W. Barwell (17yds) 2, A. C. Wat--. son (Temuka), 21yds, 3. Time, 52 2-ssec. In the running high jump, E., R. •' O'Neill (Orari), scr., jumped sft „7 , L l-sin, and in the long jump W. . " Merrin did 19ft 10in. ,' SEECONO DAY. > ■ There was. another large attend-. ance on Tuesday, the racing and "•• ;' dancing being again very interest- ■ ' ing. Cycling, Handicaps :—^Half-mile—--1 T.• Stoddart (85yds) 1, P. Hill (40 1 yds) 2, G. Brassell (75yds) 3. ' Henry (20yds) was- fourth, being unable to get through in -\the last : lap. Time, tilsec. One and a-half » mile Caledonian Race—F. Wells (10 ' vds) I,'G. Cloodall (130yds) 2, L. IV* \ Hazeldine (215yds) 3. (O'Shea' re-- - ■ tired when two laps, were togo:).. '.' Time, Ji.min 21sec. .Joyce fell in one • of the heats of this. race,, and there'.. ' was a demonstration against Wells, ■ bv some of the spectators. One'' mile—T. Joyce (60yds) 1, Li T. • Hazeldine (45yd5).2, P. Hill (65yds) , 3.' Wells and O'Shea did not com- » pete.'"' Time, 2hii'n 12 l : sseV. Two l miles Publicans' Scratch Race—P. ■>■ ■ O'Shea 1, F. Wells 2, T. Joyce 3. 1 Running Events :•—J2O yards amat . ' teur—J. B. Millar (4yds) 1. W. Buckhurst (12yds) 2, C. Hay ward " - (3yds) 3., Time; 12 3-ssec: SBO ■ yards—o. Smith (45yds) 1, W. Wes- ■ '■ ton"(4ovds) 2,"T. McMahon (45yds). . >■ 3. Time, 2min. 100 yards Cale- " donian handicap—F. A. Kerr (syds) • 1 1, J. N. Fiddes (s£yds) 2, A. Flint , 1 '(.4yds) 3. Time, 10 l-ssec. 880 ■ yards (amateur) —W. L. Bews (scr) 3 1. G. Graham (55yds) 2, G. S. Cabol (■7oyds) 3: Time, 2min ssec. 200 : varo"s (amateur)—-A. McLachlan (4 vds) 1. W. Buckhurst (2yds) 2, C. . 1 Hayward (syds) 3. Time, 23 4-5 > sec. 220 yards (open)'—M. Mac- " 1 donald (9yds) 1, F. S. David (13yds) : r 2i F. J. O'Brien (Syds) 3. Mile—- ' L. Coulter (scr.) 1, W. Weston (55- , 1 yds) 2, W. Smylie (65yds) 3. Time, . 4in in 31 l-ssec. 1 In the Field Events J. O'Connell ! (lift) won the throwing 161 b ham-" s mer event; J. Roddick, putting 161 b. , • stone; W. Merrin and F. McMahon ; t (!)in) tied for the long jump, jump--1 ing 19ft lin; P. Pierce (3in) won L the high jump (sft 7m), with J. : Mark ham (2iu), sft sin, second. O. Smith (27in) woit the hop,.step and ; jump, 41ft 2iu. ' . . 1 In catch-as-catch-can wrestling, .1. Roddick was the winner with G. Coles second. ! During the meeting four New Zea- • land championships in dancing for girls under 14 were decided. Tho events were Ghillie Callum, High- ; land reel, Highland fling, and Sean Truibhas, and all wero won by Jean ■ McLachlan, a Wellington girl who had'not previously competed in Timaru. On the first day J. A. Cameron, of Mataura, won the chain-, . pionship for reels, and with J. A_, Mclntyrc and G. M. Robertson shared! . the bulk of the prizes in the othermusic classes. ' LOCAL WINNERS -AT OAMARU • SPORTS. ~, At the annual sports of the Oamarr/ Caledonian Society oil: Monday, sev-'-oral local competitors were successful/The 220 yads was won by L. j. Collins (Geraldinc), with a handicap of IS yards in 23 l-ssec, B. P.rien (Usee) heing second. The mile was won by L. Coulter (Rangitata) from scratch in lmin 33 2-i, so.es. A. C. England (Orari) carried off the mile and one and a-half mile bicycle events and was third in■the two mile event. F. Sfjaldors ■(str.) won the two mile event and .was second in the one and a-half mile. G. Radbumd (Temuka) was: also a competitor, bnt met with an accident to his machine. In Urn -wrestling events (Cumberland and catch-as-catch-can), M. J. McCabo was placed first and J. Roddick ' second. Collins seems to have had bad luck in the Caledonian flat handicap, which fell to J. N. Walker (South Otago), after a good finish, in which a good many people fancied that the Geraldinc lad. L. Collins. whs entitled !o tho award, though hu was not placed by the judges. AUSTRALASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. At the Australasian championship meeting at Adelaide, the New Zealanders wore successful in severat events. In the pole vault, E. G. Sutherland gained second with ». vault of 10ft 3in, tho winner fwinp j Harbison, of Now South Wales. 10ft ' Cia. Webber won tho thro,, niifo event by BO yards in ir.mtn 13 1-1 o sc<\ and was third in tho mile, which was run in 4m'in 33 !-"■««<■. Taylor put u|» ft State record in tho KSO yards event, winning if by 2u yards in lmin <*iS 1-r.soo. Thoro was some nood hinh jumpitiir, tho winner being HarbiHO/i, or N.S.W.. who olourod, ftfi HI .iin.