AMATEUR PEDS.
(By Centre.)
What price Australia for record smashing peds ? v Beyond a doubt siie has knocked the World bandy ever since the days of the Sir Joseph Banks and Carrington 'Handicaps, and now a young aniateur of 18 has rushed over a 440 hurdle course m 58^-seQS. The previous best was (without having time to refer) something around &1 . What sort of a bit of stuff must boy Davis be ?
According" to latest English files a new Shrubb has been discovered m the person of a youngster named W. Coates, of Thrapston; near Northampton. Starting off 60yds he won a three-mile handicap m the easiest fashion m 14m. 475. He ran through a field of 84 runners, took the. ; lead m two miles and a-half, and trotted m 80yds ahead. .
At Salford on September 8 L. A. Burton equalled T. M. Donovan's English record of 38 4-5s for 3OOyds hurdles, but English hurdle records, except for 120 yds are somewhat foolish things, as the conditions may vary considerably as to the number of hurdles, or their distance apart.
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NZ Truth, Issue 74, 17 November 1906, Page 2
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180AMATEUR PEDS. NZ Truth, Issue 74, 17 November 1906, Page 2
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