GIRL'S RECORD JUMP

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 8

GIRL'S RECORD JUMP

Air Mail)

Many Difficulties to Contend With

(Own Correspondent— -By

LONDON, Aug. 9. Fair-haired ' ' Sweet Seventeen" Miss Dorotby Odam, .who set up a new British bigh-jump record of 5ft. 4 3-8in. in the'Women's Atbletie Cbampionsbips at tbe Wbite City on Saturday, won despite tbese bandieaps : Her ankle was swollen to twice its normal size owing to an insect bite; sbe bad resigned ber job as a shortkand-typist to compete, naving to combine ber training witb a ' scarcb for anotber post. Her rccord was 1 3-8 inebes more tban tbe eifort that brougbt her second in tbe Olyrupie Games. Still pink witb exertion, and prouJly wearing a wbite pull-over witb "Britain" blazoned across it, Mxss Odam told a reporter as sbe .left tbe stadiuin witb her , magnifieent silver cup, presented by Mr Gordon Selfridge: "I was lueky to be able to jump at all. When my foot started swelling on Wednesday I thought it was good- bye to the championship. "Anotber diffieulty I've been up against is getting txme oif i'or train. ing Tbe only way I've managcd is by ru.shing bome after work and getting in a few practice jumps on my Ixoine track at Mitcham. Now I've got a job in a bigger offiee, wbere tbe -manager 1.9 keen on atkletics, and where I shan't be so missed — and I hope to get more tir^i ofi'." ®iss Audrey Brown, aged 24, wbo was fourtb in a very bot 200 motres final — a feat wbicb will probably earn ber a place in tbe Englisb team for the Empire Games in Sydnev, Australia, iu tbe winter} toid me tbat she owes all ber success to tbe couching and eucouragement of ber family. Her father is Jifr II. A. Brown, of Russell road, Birmingham, ihe "milling" Blue of 1900 and 1901. -