ATHLETICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1927, Page 1

ATHLETICS.

BV TKLEG2IATII—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT

GISBORNE, January 15.

The most successful amateur athletic sports meeting ever held in Poverty Bay eventuated at the Oval to-day, being staged by the Gisborne Amateur Athletic Club. The meeting was notable for the fact that three Olympian aspirants competed, namely Randolph Rose, “Fatty” Lamb, and .Miss Nancy Eastward. The day was gloriously fine hut occasional head winds blew down the sprint course. The attendance totalled between two and three thousand. Rose competed in the half mile, hut after a good race, lie came second to G. McDonald (15yds), the time being 2.1 -1-5. In the one-mile footrace, Rose with a sensational sprint in the finishing stages won easily by twenty yards in 4.118 2-5 establishing a Poverty Bay record. Lamb came fourth in the mile scratch cycle race, being unused to the course. Tne winner was J. Douglas. The time was 2.42 4-5. In the one-mile cycle handicap Lamb from scratch overhauled nearly all the field before the first lap was covered, when his front tyre came off. J. Douglas (scr) won in 2.4 .'ll-5. In three miles handicap, Lamb rode a good race, but what looked like an exciting finish in the last two hundred yards was spoiled by J. Algie coming down and forcing the Australian to ride round him. J. Douglas (scr) won by twenty yards from Lamb, with McMahon G 15yds.) third. The time was 8.15 4-5.

The first heat of the Indies’ hundred yards was won by Miss Eastward ill twelve seconds., which is equal to the Poverty Bay record, and she won the final in the same time. 0-,ven Pnltridgo. the Poverty Bay

sprint champion, annexed his heat in the hundred yards in 10- 2-5 secs and recorded the same time in his win in the final.