PROMISING MEETING OPENS ATHLETIC AND CYCLING SEASON
Wanganui’s 1950-51 athletic and track cycling season got away to a good start last evening when the Wanganui Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club held a twilight sports meeting on Cook’s Gardens. The events drew promisingly large fields for the season’s first meeting. The form shown was good. The race of the programme was the one and a-half mile scratch cycle race. The six laps found out the weaker members of the large field, and it was left to D. Mitchell, C. Dickinson and A. Higgs to make a race of the finish. Mitchell tried to break out at the start of the bell lap, but Dickinson followed him through with Higgs close behind. In the home straight, Dickinson made the pace, holding off Higgs for a close finish, with Mitchell third. Results were:— CYCLING. Half-mile handicap.—First heat; C. Dickinson 1, A. Higgs 2, F. Clinton 3. Time, 61.6 sec. Second heat: G. Wakely 1, G. Sharrock 2, C. Pedley 3. Time, 60sec. Final: Pedley 1, Sharrock 2, Dickinson 3. Time, 62.95ec. One mile handicap.—First heat: G. Sharrock 1, G. Wakely 2, L. Christie 3, A. Sharrock 4. Time, 2min. 9.2 sec. Second heat: D. Mitchell 1, C. Pedley 2, B. Davy 3, A. Sturzaker 4. Time, 2min. 7.2 sec. Final: Mitchell 1, G. Sharrock 2, A. Sharrock 3. Time, 2min. 12.5 see. One and a-half scratch race: C. Dickinson 1, A. Higgs 2, D. Mitchell 3. Time,3min. 27.25ec. ATHLETICS. No. 1 junior men’s 75yds: D. Jackson 1, P. Sanders 2, W. Lewis 3. No. 2 junior men’s 75yds.: I. Perigo 1, D. Rasmussen 2, T. James 3. Women’s 50yds.: L. Bloor 1, L. Couchman 2, J. Coleman 3. Senior men’s 1000 metres: Cook 1, R. Donaldson 2, Coleman & Time, 2min. 36.95ec. Junior men’s 1000 metres: I. Just 1, C. O’Donnell 2. Time, 2min 37sec. Men’s 440yds. D. Jackson 1, I. Just 2, R. Bennett 5.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19501110.2.95
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, 10 November 1950, Page 8
Word Count
322PROMISING MEETING OPENS ATHLETIC AND CYCLING SEASON Wanganui Chronicle, 10 November 1950, Page 8
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.