‘Bull’ flies at Cust
Shirley favendale set a women’s bullchip throwing record at the Cust Fun Day sports yesterday. The sports were held to raise funds for extra facilities for the new Cust community centre. Local residents have raised $85,000 towards the cost of the centre in the last five years. Mr Robert Trowland, of West Eyreton, is shown above gingerly selecting dried bull chip before entering the men’s bullchip throwing contest. Shirley Ta ven,dale easily eclipsed her opposition as well as the world record of 35.15 m, as listed in the “Guinness Book of Records,” with her throw of 39.65 m.
In more sophisticated athletics competition discus throwing is the event most comparable with bullchip throwing. An overarm style w'as preferred by most com-
petitors to the conventional discus throwing technique. Regular athletics has a stringent code of competition rules, including exact specifications for size and weight of implements to ensure standardised competition. The problem of getting uniformity in naturally produced bull pats is acknowledged by the lack of standards governing them. It was a case of pick your own fro a a heaped trailer: two pats for 50c.
A problem was getting pats of the right texture for throwing because of the lush growth this autumn. To ensure good texture the pats were collected from the bull paddocks on the property of Messrs B. W. and P. F. Dixon, at West Eyreton, and were carefully dried to the right consistency in their w’oolshed.
J. Reid won the senior men’s event in what is believed to be a New Zealand record. His throw of 66.9 m beat the 54.4 m set by a former champion discus thrower, I. Dalzell, last year. Competition was keen.
The outstanding throw was probably that of S. Vincent, who won a prim-ary-school championship with 51.03 m. N. Brydon won an under-18 event with 56.8 m and K. Brydon won the under-16 event with 45.15 m.
Shirley Tavondale showed that athletics prowess was no flash in the pan, as she put the 71b brick 14.25 m to win the women’s event. B. Frampton won the men’s event with 16.5 in.
Murray Laing (North Canterbury Athletic and Harrier Club) was the first to complete the Bkm fun run from West Eyreton to Cust, taking 31 min.
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