RECORDS BROKEN

Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 March 1934, Page 6

RECORDS BROKEN

AT AMATEUR SPORTS. CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Except for a cool south-east breeze, conditions were almost perfect for the athletic sports meeting at Lancaster Park at which the visiting Australian athletes appeared. Five New Zealand records were broken, three of them by the Australian, J. P. Metcalfe. T. G. Broadway (Canterbury) clipped three seconds off the 1000 yards record, and A. T. Anderson avoii the 440 yards hurdles in record time, while T. E. Hampson (Australia), in winning the 100 yards and 220 yards, equalled the New Zealand record in both evcvtns, his times being 9 4-ssec and 21 4-ssec. Metcalfe’s performances were outstanding. He made a new figure for the high jump of Oft 4 7-Bin., cleared 23ft 10 4-sin. in the broad jump, and 50ft in. in the hop, step and jump. The mile event was robbed of much interest by the defection of the young Canterbury champion, Matthews, owing to an indisposition. The meeting of J. B. McFarlane, the New Zealand sprint champion, with Hampson aroused keenest interest, but the Australian to-dav showed he was definitely superior. He beat MacFarlane by a yard and -a half in the 220 and by two feet in the 100 yards. — (P.A.)