HURDLES CHAMPIONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 38, 1 March 1937, Page 8

HURDLES CHAMPIONS

Miss R. Tong and F. Sharpley SATURDAY'S PERFORMANCES It is somewhat.of a coincidence that> both the women amateur hurdles champion of New Zealand, Miss Rona . Tong, and also tbe male sprint hurdles champion, Jk-ank Sharpley, are members of the Hastings Amateur Athletio Club and of the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay athletic centre. At the centrs championships held on McLean Park, Napier, on Saturday, both of these runners were very prominent. v Sharpley won both the 120 yards and 220 yards hurdles championships with great ease,' clipping something off the 0 New Zealand record in each instance, but owing to a slight following wind favouring the runners, new record times could not be applied for. Miss Tong even more easily won both her heat and the final of the women's 90 yards hurdles championships. This is a new distance, for which no record has yet been included in the list, but Misa Tong has already run the distance three times' on McLean Park, recording 13 l-5secs, 13secs, and 13 3-5 seos., on the respective occasidns, and even the elowest time of the three compares favourably with the present New Zealand record for the 80 yards hurdles whiph is at present held by Miss Tong, Miss Tong is the fastest and most gfaceful women hurdler yet seen in the Dominion, and is likely to set » fine mark in the 90 yards hurdles cham* pionship at Auckland on March 13.