SCHOOL SPORTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3920, 19 March 1929, Page 3

SCHOOL SPORTS.

' FOXTON WINS McKELVIE •SHIELD. At the Sandon Athletic Sports meeting on Saturday the local District High School team was successful in again 'winning the McKelvie Shield for' Athletics. The details in 'connection with the competition were las follows: — GIRLS EVENTS. 100yds, under 14: E. Thompson 1, J. -Robbie 3; 50yds., under 11: M. Raupi 1; 75yds., under 13: N. Botaroff 1, C. Robinson 2; 75yds., under 12; J. Barron 1, V. Botaroff 2; 100 yds., under 15: J. Coley 2, M. iMcKnight 3; 75yds., under 10: H. Easton 3; 150yds., under 14: E. Thomjpson 1, J. Robbie 3; 75yds., under 11: M. Raupi 1; 100yds., under 13: N. Botaroff 1, ,C. Robinson 3; 100yds., under 12: J. Barron 1, V. Botaroff 2; 150yds., under 15: J. Coley 2, M. Me Knight 3. BOYS EVENTS. 50yds., under 10: D. Williams 1, H. Robinson 2; 100yds., under 14: N. W|alls 2; 75yds., under 11: R. Evans 1; 100yds., under 13: D. Brown 1, R. Ho'we 2; 100yds., under 12: L. Williams 1, A. Baird 3; 75 yds., under 10: H. Easton 3; 150 yds., under 14: N. Walls 2; 100yds., under 11: R. Evans 1; 150yds., under 13: D. Brown 1, R. Howe 2; 150 yds., under 12: L. Williams 2, A. Baird 3; 220yds., under 15: W. Neville 3. Points: — Poston,, 77; Rangiotu, 39; Bunnythorpe, 21; Rongotea, 7. In the senior athletics, O. jDbel (15yds.) Was placed third in the second heat otf the 220yds., but was unplaced in the final. iL. Moffatt (Oroua Downs) won the 440yds. handicap. Time 50 1-5 sec. At the conclusion of the sports the McKelvie Shield was presented by Mr. Linklater, who referred to the fine athletic record of Foxtou school. Mt. Mason, in reply, said that he wished that some of the big schools had been represented. He congratulated Rangiotu, the run-ners-up on their fine attempt. He also paid a special tribute to the teachers on his staff, who were responsible for the training of the runners. Three cheers were given by Poxton for their opponents, and three combined cheers for Mr. MeIvelvie, the donor of the shield. At the conclusion Mr. Linklater introduced Miss Margaret Barron, the Wellington Provincial lady champion to the assemblage who gave her three hearty cheers.

Speaking at the Sandon Sports Club’s gathering on Saturday last, Mi’. F. A.. Mason, headmaster of the Poxton District High School, paid a glowing tribute to the officials of the Club for the excellent manner in which the whole meeting was organised and said that such was the efficiency of the organisation for the running of the schools’ events that he and his staff had incorporated many points learned at Sandon in the organisation for the training of the school teams and in the getting off of events at the annual school picnics and elsewhere. Mr. Mason also referred to the great honour his school had in having as one of its secondary pupils, the lady champion sprinter of the Wellington Province —Miss Margaret Barron, who, he said, had virtually been “discovered” at fch« Sandon Sports meeting in 1927, when she so easily defeated her opponents in the schools’ events for the McKelvie Shield.