AMATEUR ATHLETICS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 6

AMATEUR ATHLETICS

Fourth Evening Meeting at Napier GOOD TIMES RECORDED The fourth evening meeting of the Napier Amateur Atbletic and Cycling Club was held on McLean Park last evening when there was a good attendance of the public. The programme was a good one, and two performances which stood out from the others were Frank Sharpley's 120 yards bur-dles, and Graham Quinn's 100 yards -scratch race. fciharpley won his beat of the 120 yards low hurdles iu 14secs. dead, witb bis club-inate, P. Begley, recording 14 2-5 secs. for bis beat. In tbe bnal aharpley elected to take ihe regulation tbreefeet burdles instead of tbe low burdles in order to have a better test. In the linal he finished just bebind P. Begley wbo ran tbe distance in 14 l-5seca., so tbat ttharpley 's time, tbougb of course not separately taken, wouiu not be over 14 2-5secs. In tbe 100 yards invitation scratch race Grahain t)uinn ran rigbt away from W. J. Fitzsimmons at the hnish, winning by two yards. Miss N. Martint a deeided acquisition to tbe ranks of tbe lady runners, won botb tbe ladies' bandicap events. Tbe following are tbe results: — 100 yards invitation scratch race. — G. (juinn (Gisborne) 1, W. J. Fitzsimmons (Napier) 2, P. F. Sharpley (Hastings) 3. Time, lOsecs. Quinn won by two yards. Treston Banner relay. — Atbletics 1, Trixies 2. Time, 57 2-5secs. One mile walk bandicap. — I. Driscoll (scr.) 1, P. Co'llins (360) 2, R. McGregor (350) 3. Time, 7mins. 1 4-5secs. 100 yards handicap. — First beat: P. Collins (13) 1( I. Bickerstaff (3i) 2, J. Rogers (9). 3. Time. 10 l-5secs. Second beat: R. Tucker (7) 1, E. Phillips (8) . 2. C. Eddy (9J) 3. Time,. lOsecs. Third beat: H. Husheer (6J) 1, - E. Shuker (7^) 2, R. Gollop (10$) 3. Time, 10 l-5secs. Final: Tucker 1, Bickerstaff 2, Collins 3. Time, lOsecs. Women 's 75 yards bandicap. — First beat: Miss N. Martin (7) 1, Miss R. Tong (1) 2, Miss Magnussen (10) 3. Time. 9secs. Second beat: Miss D. Cottrell (7) 1, Miss G. Smith (7$) 2, Miss L. Climo (5$) 3. Time, 9'l-5secs. Final: Miss Martin 1, Miss Smith 2, Miss Cottrell 3. Time, 8 4-5secs. Primary schools relay.- — Marist A 1, Intermediate 2, Marist B 3. Time, 58secs. . • One mile handicap. — T. Cotterill (220) 1, W. Smith (260) 2. R. Rells (240) 3. Time, 4mins. 22 l-5secs. - 120 yards low burdles bandicap. — F. Sharpley (scr.) 1, E. Phillips (10) 2, V. McCutcbeon (9) 3. Time, 14secs. Second beat: P. Begley (7) 1, E. Sbulcer (10) 2, R. Tucker (13) 3. Time, 14 2-5 secs. Final: Begley 1, Sharpley 2, Phillips 3. Time. 14 l-5secs. Sharpley in tbis beat ran over tbe regulation three-feet burdles, not tbe low hurdles. Women 's 150 yards bandicap. — Miss N. Martin (14) 1, Miss D. Cottrell (14) 2, Miss N. Wyness (9) 3. Time, 17 3-5 secs. Women 's cock o' tbe nortb, 50 yards. — Miss L. Climo 1 440 yards handicap. — I. Bickerstaff (8) 1, P. Begley (8) 2, J. Rogers (28) 3. Time, 51 4-5secs. Boys' 100 yards, 10 years and under. — H. Bruce 1, R. Harding 2. R. Girling 3. Football clubs' relay. — H.S.O.B. 1, Tecb. O.B. 2, Pirates 3. Time, lmin. 46 2-5secs. Cock o' tbe north, men, 880 yards. — R. Gollop 1. Six-laps cycle bandicap. — R. Attwood (40) 1, A. Manning (120) 2, E. Wells (140) 3. Time, 4mins. 40 2-5secs. Williams finished second but was disqualified for breaking away before tbe pistol. 12-laps bandicap. — R. Attwood (70) 1, A. Manning (250) 2. J. Anderson (200) 3. Time, 18mins. 15 2-5secs. Cock o ' tbe nortb, one mile, — W. Williams 1. Hammer tbrow. — R. Johnson (11ft.) 108ft. 1, E. Phillips (12ft.) 85ft. 2. Hop, step and jump. — E. Phillips (lft.) 42ft. 16in. 1, E. T. Shuker (ll't. 3in.) 41ft. 4in. 2