OVERSEAS SPORT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 16

OVERSEAS SPORT

REMARKABLE BROAD JUMPER OUTSTANDING ATHLETE In the Oxford and Cambridge v. Harvard and Yale Universities contest in England recently A. G. K. Brown, of Cambridge, won the 440yds easily in 48.65. Brown’s best time for the 440 yds for this last season was 48.15, the best performance recorded by any European runner during the 1935 season. Keith Brown, of Yale, cleared 14ft. in the pole vault —a British record for that event. Brown has cleared 6ft 6in. In the high jump and holds the world’s record of 14ft 5 l-Bin for the pole valut. Walter Marty, of the United States holds the world’s high jump record with 6ft 9 l-Bin. One of the best high jumpers in the United States at present is Cornelius Johnson, a negro, a pure western .roll jumper, who In 1934 at the national United States championships cleared 6ft 8:;in. In practice Johnson has an aunthenticated jump of 6ft lOiin. He uses only a 10yds approach run at an angle of 50 degrees, but he has two check marks about which he is most careful. One is three yards from the bar and the other five yards from the first.

In the publication Amateur Athletics for September, the official organ of the English Amateur Athletic Association, thei'e appears a paragraph showing the long jump world’s records made since 1883. In that year J. W.

Parsons jumped 23ft. Olin., the first man to beat 23ft. In 1891, C. S. Reber, and in 1893, the great all round athlete, C. B. Fry, cleared 23ft. 6!in.

The paragraph does not include Mat Roseingrave’s world’s record jump of 23ft. 75in. in New South Wales, beating Fry’s record by an inch, W. J.M. Newburn, in 1899, with 24ft. Olln., was the first man to better 24ft„ while P. O’Connor’s jump of 24ft. llSin. made in 1901. was not beaten until, in 1921, E. O. Goudin, of the United States, did 25ft. lOiin.

The first man to clear 26ft. was S. Cator, 26ft 0 l-Bin. In 1928. C. Nambu, the Japanese, did 26ft 2 l-Bin. in 1931, while this year the United States negro sprinter, J. Owens, jumped the truly astounding distance of 26ft. BUn.

Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., the worthy patron of the amateur sport and cross-country running in South Canterbury, has kindly consented to officially open the 1935-36 season for amateur athletics. Mr Orr-Walker has given excellent services to the sport arid his official position as patron is indeed a very active ’ one. He takes part in all meetings as an official, and his work is very much appreciated by the sub-cefcntre officials and club supporters.

The Timaru Highland Pipe Band will be in attendance, and will lead a parade of athletes at 2.30 p.m. It is to be hoped, that the public will give wholehearted support to the meeting, and so give encouragement to those who are making excellent efforts to foster amateur athletics in South Canterbury.