INTRA-EMPIRE SPORTS

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 259, 10 November 1934, Page 7

INTRA-EMPIRE SPORTS

AT MELBOURNE CENTENARY BTCKERSTAFF SHAPES WELL By Telegraph—Copyright—Press Assn. MELBOURNE, Last Night. Canada, with 83 points, won the in-tra-Empire schools sports, Victoria being next with 58 and New Zealand third with 29. The most thrilling race was the mile in which the New Zealanders were first and second. The Empire Games broad jump champion. Richardson (Canada) wa-> defeated by Letcher (Victoria) after a dead-heat. The track was heavy. Results: — Weight putt. —Wares (Canada) 1. Steele (Victoria) 2, Coxhead (New Zealand) 3. Distance, 46ft a record. JOO yards.—Mac-phec (Canada) 1. Zisis (Canada) 2, Gill (Victoria) 3, Bate (Victoria) 4, Bickerstaff (New Zealand) 5, Steel (New Zealand) 6. Time, 10 1-5 secs. Half-mile.—Brosnan (Victoria) L 'Pearce (Victoria) 2, Ferris (Canada) 3, Mitchell (Canada) 4, Waft (New Zealand) and Wordsworth (New Zealand) 5 and 6. Time, 2.3 7-10. High jump.—Jansen (Canada) 1. Evans (Victoria) 2. Height sft lljin. Jansen won the jump-off. Richardson (Canada) was third. Watt (Victoria) fourth, Steele and Coxhead (New Zealand) fifth, and sixth. 220 yards. —Macphee (Canada'' 1, McFarlane (Victoria) 2, Savage (Canada) 3, Letcher (Victoria) 4. Bickerstaff and Wilson (New Zealand) 5 and 6. Time, 22 9-10 see. 120 yards hurdle-’. —Roaring (Canada) 1, Lander (Victoria) 2, Zisis (Canada) 3. Warhurst (Victoria) 4. Bickerstaff (New Zealand) 5. Time, 16secs. 440 yard-.—Limon (Canada) 1 Sayers (New Zealand) 2. Fleming (Canada) 3, Clarke (New Zealand) 4. Timo 51 9-lOsers. Long jump.—Letcher (Victoria) 1. Richardson (Canada) 2, Lapin (Victoria) 3, .Tansen (Canada) 4. Steele (Now Zealand) 5. Distance, 22ft sins., a record. Mile.—-AfcLaughlan (New Zealand) 1. Watt (New Zealand) 2. Pearce (Victoria) 3. Time, 4.42 235. Relays.—44o: Canada 1, New Zealand 2, Victoria 3. Mile: Canada 1. Victoria 2. New Zealand 3.