AXEMEN’S SPORTS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1926, Page 4

AXEMEN’S SPORTS

[by TF.LEOBArrr — run press association. l DUNEDIN. January 7.

At the Exhibition Axemen's Carnival, the second day’s results were ns follows:

Fourteen inch standing championship chop—Prizes: £25 and gold medal, £lO and £5 (seven entries). —.T. Showrv (Taranaki) I, .1. E. Richardson (King Country) 2. B. A. Gibbs (West Coast) .'i. Time 1 nun 10 2-osecs.

Eighteen inch single-handed sawing championship.—£lo and medal, £0 and £•1 (eight entries).—Geof. Banks (Southland') 1. John Neal (King Country) 2. Dug Johnston (Southland) 3. Time 33secs.

Twelve Inch Standing Chop.—£ls, £2O. £lO and £5. the winner taking the Kelly Axe Company’s gold medal— Seeoinl Heat (eight entries). —E. Lerth (King Country) ser., 1. A. Laurie (West Coast) 14 sees., 2. Third Heat (eight entries) —L. J. Williams (West Coast). 14sees, 1 : B. Koeti (West Coast), fisees., 2.

Fourth Heat (eight entries).—J. Sherry (Taranaki) ser., 1 ; W. It. Andrews (Catlins). lOsecs. Time 2Ssecs.

EiglTteen Inch Double Handed Sawing Championship—£ls and two gold medals. £G and £3 (six entries) —Straker and Seymour (Marlborough) 1, Bagust and Gibbs (West Coast) 2, Pollard find Gill (Southland) and Neilson and Newman (King Country), a dead heat. 2. Time IGsecs. Fifteen Inch Underhand Handicap Chop—£llo and axe, (£45, £ls, £5 and £2 10s—First heat of semi-final (seven entries): —A. 1 Murrell C (New South Wales), “secs, V; Ned Mitchell (West Coast) ISsecs. 2; B. Neilson (King Cdtintry).- 12secs, 3.‘‘ Time 59sees. "