ATHLETICS.
| DOMINION ’S ATHLETES. j A. E. POREITT’S PERFORMANCE. I An interesting athletic meeting took J Place at Queen’s Club one evening last I vteok between Dominion athletes and 1 I! Club. H»mv a y thro^J I t e programme the score was 27 all , ami the final figures were: Dominions’, i 3.i points; Achilles Club, 31 points. S the At loS SO , n ( n° Uth Africa) > in winning D o 12Q hurdles and 220 x yards low rd os g.ave the finest exhibition of hurdling seen since Earl Thompson appeared at the same ground. The former race was run in lolsec, and the latter in 25sec. , A - E - E °, rrilt "".as in splendid form for the 100 yards sprint, and led all the way to win by inches, against a s.rong wind, in Ifisec dead. C. Coaf- , (Canada) and IT. M. Abrahams }? o nlles) ran second and third respectively. The defeat of Abrahams must have come as a great surprise to many In the 200 yards H. P. Kinsman (South
Africa) won in 22 l-ssee, beating Porritt by four yards. G. M. Butler/(Achilles), who ran third, made a desperate effort to beat Porritt, but failed by a few inches.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 September 1924, Page 12
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200ATHLETICS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 September 1924, Page 12
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