Athletic.
A FINE PERFORMANCE. , A match between L. C. McLachlan and C. P. Morris, well-known running men, took place at Stratford on Tuesday for a purse of 120 sovs, the distance being 120 yards. The race, which was witnessed by a large gathering, was won by Morris by four inches; time, usee. At Napier the other day McLachlan covered a quarter of a mile in three-tenths of a second over the world’s best record tor over twenty years. Morris’s usee is within 2-sth sec o( H. Gent s (piofessional) record put up in England in 1887, and only i-sth sec longer than the English records of the amateur runners C. Bradley and J. W. Morton. Bradley’s record'was established in 1894, and was equalled by Morton t< u years later. Shrubb. the English athlete, is suffering from gastric influenza. He was unable to leave Melbourne for the Biuft yesterday with the other athletes, but expects to be well enough to travel in a week’s time,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19050302.2.12
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3491, 2 March 1905, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164Athletic. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3491, 2 March 1905, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in