CHAMPION ATHLETES
BOOT AND BACKHOUSE PROBABLE MEETING If V. P. Boot, the New Zealand distance runner competes in the Victorian track championships next February, he will have a chance to level his score of wins with Gerald Backhouse, who now is one up out of five major meetings. The first of the Australian's first important races against Boot was the half-mile at the ITT Olympic Games (Berlin). Backhouse finished ahead of the New Zealander, and the pair then ‘travelled to London, where they were relay team-mates for the Em-
pire against the United States at While Citv, At the Sydney Empire Gaines early last year, Boot reversed the Berlin result by winning the half-mile decisively from Backhouse, who compensated by finishing in front of Ihe New Zealander in the mile.
The two runners met twice m New Zealand, when Backhouse toured last Christmas and New Year, with Best, the young Australian sprint star. Losing at Wellington, but winning in Dunedin. Backhouse established his lead of three out of five, lie has proved a slight superiority over Boot in the mile, winning at their only two meetings over this distance. But Boot, has triumphed in two of their three half-mile races.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20115, 8 December 1939, Page 4
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