AMATEUR ATHLETICS
TOUR BY AMERICAN CHAMPIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Further advice regarding the proposed tour of New Zealand next season of the two American athletes, George Bullwinkle and George Simpson, was received at a meeting of the council of the Amateur Athletic Association. A cable was received from G. E. Krongess on August 22 that Simpson would decide after the Chicago meeting. Bullwinkle is still in Europe. It was reported that the profit on the New Zealand championship meeting was £127. Official recognition was granted to J. G. Leckie’s hammer throw of 151 feet 6in for a 161bs hammer in the throwing championship at Milton on February 15, as the best performance of the kind 'on record by a New Zealander.
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Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3196, 2 September 1930, Page 4
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