AMATEUR ATHLETICS
DEWAR SHIELD MEETING.
■One~;of' the,,''features -of''the- .amateur athleticand cycling meeting to, be held at Athletic Park.on SatUrday,.',afternoon will be-a hurdling event for" tht'girls, -who hitherto- have attempted.little outside of sprinting. It is claimed that, this will be the first occasion on which a hurdle contest for girls has been held at a big sports meeting m Wellington, and the event is bound to attract keen interest. Many other events will contribute much to a meeting which promises to be the best to date this < season. , Numerous Scratch events'are included "on the programme, and in these the efforts to improve Dewar Shield positions should account for \eiy keen competition, with performances which should give a; good idea' of Wellington's prospects at -the national meeting nc\t month. Apart from the relay racing for the Heenan and Oates batons, the scratch events will include 220 yards BSO yards, three miles, ]20 yards hurdles, and nalt-mile, nnd one mile cycling. The programme will commence-with a, grand parade of athletes. , , . *
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19320204.2.18
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1932, Page 4
Word Count
167AMATEUR ATHLETICS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1932, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. 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 Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in