HACK BEATS OGG

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 10

HACK BEATS OGG

A team of Wellington competitors tbok ■part, in an electric light sports meeting at 'the Carterton Showgrounds on Monday night, at the invitation of the Carterton Club;- .. '■-'■;., -. V-;>; .' •' •, "- . Jenkins won the 100 yards handicap from in lOsec dead. He also competed an the 220 yds handicap, but was unable to brun through the field of fourteen. j Oiie of the most interesting events of ] the evening was the 880 yds handicap, in which W. Ogg, of Wellington, was third, being led to the tape by W. Holland (65 yards) and L. Hack, ex-provincial titleholder. The time for the race was given as lmin 57 2-ssec, and Hack as reported to have finished a yard behind Holland. Miss Blatherwick and Miss Sharpe "won places in their respective heats of ,"the 75 yards and 100 yards ladies' handicaps. Miss Sharpe was placed second in :the final of the 100 yards event,, and Miss Blatherwick second in the final of the 75 yards. ' ';:■■ Ogg was (econd in the 440 yards handicap, and Hack won the one mile handicap. M. Gane, of Wellington, failed to get a place in the one mile cycle handicap, and although qualifying in his heat was also beaten out of a place an the final of-the one and a-half miles handicap. He was third to T. M'Cord and T. Oakley in a t*a miles event.