ATHLETE GUARDED.
Attack Feared Before Big Event. (Special to the “Star.”) SYDNEY, April 6. The athlete, T; L. Roberts (of Mulwala, N.S.W.), who won the Stawell Gift by 13yds, was carefully guarded before the event by detectives. Special precautions were taken to ensure that there would not be a recurrence of last year’s incident, when C. H. Heath, ultimate winner, was attacked outside the ground on Easter Sunday morning. Roberts and his trainer, Mick M’Carthy, of New South Wales, a former sprint champion runner, remained iii Ararat, nineteen miles away, over the week-end. Sergeant-Detective Clem Bell, of the Melbourne Criminal Investigation Branch, went to Ararat the night before the race to scout around. Roberts’s brother, who bears a striking resemblance to the runner, was shadowed by a small group of men. Detective Bell kept watch on them, but his impression was that they were merely curious to have a close-up of the Gift favourite, who, however, had been “ kept in smoke.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20279, 13 April 1934, Page 11
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