ATHLETICS.
Perth, December 7, The pedestrian championship contests attracted an attendance of about fifteen thousand people. Postle defeated Day, the English champion, by three yards in the seventy-five yards race, in 7 1-5 seconds. In the three hundred yards race he finished three yards in front of Day in 30 4-5300. Day attributes his defeat to illluck. He says he was not given time to get a proper start. He challenges Postle to re-run the races.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3729, 8 December 1906, Page 2
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76ATHLETICS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3729, 8 December 1906, Page 2
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