Athletics RECENT FORM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 17

Athletics RECENT FORM

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Sharpley Needs High-Hurdle Practice A H1NT FOR CLUB

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With th# approacb of the New Zealand track and field chanipion- , sMps, athletes are sparking up, and last week-end a- series of- really good perfonnances were recorded in various ' paxrts of th# Dominion. Pride of place goes to W. A. Pullar, fn Dunedin, who toddled over the mile in the great time of 4mins. 18secs., which is. less than five seconds outside of Bandalph Bose's soconds outside of Randolph, Bose's few years back. In Christchurch, "VT. Boot got to the end of a half -mile in Imin. 57secs., goin-g eomfortably,. which. hexalds isomething better in Auckland- next month. Up in Auckland, C. P. Glegg, off; eight. yards, won. a, heat of 1Q0 yards in 0 4-Ssecs. TMs; is the. javelin-thrower reeently in Hawke's Bay- At the eams meeting Miss Grindrod ran a full 100. yards in 11 l-5secs. and W. S. Bainbridge ran 220 yaxds on a full tura in 23sees. Metbinks the Auckland watches vstere a" wee, bit rusty- At the same meeting walker Gameron. » turned in 6mins.. 55secs., for a mile, which is really excellent time and suggests that by .March 13 'he will be able. te offer spirited resistanee to lan DriscoH, Th# Walkers S» Wade, the one- time - Gisborne walker,., is now the No. 1 Wellington man afr the heel-and-toe game, and is deseribed m the fairest walker, seen in Wellington -for many year®. When ih this distrAet Wa.de 'a left leg action was very faulty- - i ; Next Thursday evening at 7 pjn»i ■ weather conditiQns. being favourable, Xan Driscoll will make an attempt on the two-mile .walking record at present credited to A. Brady and reeorded ah Auckland away back in April, 189.6- | The" timo to oo beaten is I4mins. \% 3-5secs. The Napier Club has. invited) Mr Dorie. LesEe up from Wellington toi : act as one of the walking judges. If ho ! cQmes, Mr Leslie wiH aet as starter. in the running ©vents. As is well . known; he - actied ih. this eapacity at the Lo» Angeles Qlympic Games. Napier Performances. The Napier Ckih's. meeting iast week; produced some good .efforts, not thei least impressive peing • Bob Johnson's: l'Oft. 2ins. in the pole vault. It *was not so much the height cleared but the • manner of performanee that impresse.d ! me, and it will create no surprise to see Johnson soaring to the 11ft.. marls : by championship time. It was not a good evening for high jjumping, and D. Chadwiek and Exic Phillips were mueh below their best. A 220 handicap run in lanes was a ; novelty to the public. and an education 1 to the competitors. The two heats . produced close fLnish.es, and the final was a wonderful one With Geo. Phillips getting. the award by th© barest, of margins. Bay Phillips, virtual acratcb j man, waa a winner a yard past tho pp'st. A "dark horse" in Bott, of tho : Hastings Club, was handed out 13 yards starh in the 120 yards handicap. In the heat he was second through looking xound, but he made no such error in tho final and won by a foot. Bott has been off the track for two or three years, but he bids fair to improve considerably ■from now on. The most promising woman ranner m the Napier Cbib is Miss L- Climo, and judging by the way she left the field ; over tbe concluding stages of the "120 sprint she' will aoon be qualifying for a back mark. The big clock was in operation and worked perfectly. In the one-lap time trial Pat Dooney created mild surprise by recording one-tenth of a second faster time over the distance than Vern Manning and Joe Hutchinson, Hastings Form. The Hastings Glub's meeting on Wednesday attracted big .fields and close. finishes were agam the order. Bott won the 220 yarqs, thereby confirming good impressions of the previous week, and Toby Attwood now riding well, gained a meritorious win in the 1000-metres cycle. The two-mile flat produced an allha'rrier finish with a blanket to cover the place-getters. National hurdle champion Frank Sharpley is not getting niuch encouragent from his club in the way of competition over the high hurdles, as to date not oue such event has appeared on the local pTOgramme. Champions must obtain competition if they are to maintain their* honours. TomOrrow Sharpley travels all the way to Dannevirke to get a run over th© high hurdles. Two events that the Hastings Club could well put on at the next meeting is a 220 yards and 440 yards hurdles. Budding champions will never be discovered if competition is not provided. Don't forget the Taradale Beturned Soldiers' Association meeting takes place at Taradale next Saturday.