ATHLETICS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PRAGUE, August 17. Carr won the exhibition KX) metre** at Olmutz, again recording 10 3-ssec, and heating Suoboda, the Bohemian champion. Cl! (>SS-COU.\ TK Y EVENTS. SYDNEY, August 19. 'I he New Sout.lt Wales "itve miles cross-country championship was run ort the Randuirk course by 55 competitors. The New Zealanders raced for individual honours, not- as ft team. The teams' championship was won hv Botany Harriers, and the individual championship by F. Bailey (South Sydney), It. Rose (Now Zealand) was second, and .1. McKenzie (South Sydney) third. Rage (New Zealand) ran 10th. Time 2i.2i), a record for tlie course. Nalder did not start. Rose led by 40 yards in the first lap, and increased his lead to KX) yards in the second lap. but he was overtaken at half-way. He went to walk off the course, hut changing his mind, he continued. He was beaten by 20 yards. With better judgment and by keeping nearer in, Rase should have won.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1923, Page 2
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