SEE HOW THEY RUN!

NZ Truth, Issue 1149, 8 December 1927, Page 16

SEE HOW THEY RUN!

Athletic Titles Go On Auction Block This Week

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special THIS week at English and Lane; title-holders of the athletic a Zealand will spring into the aren lance with any who would 'st asp: supremacy from them.

SCARCELY is there an event m which the competition will not be

of the keenest, and the standard of athletics m this country at the present time is such as to dispel the gloom even of the most pessimistic. Chief interest will centre m the mile championship, m which Randolph Rose will be faced with Gibbons (WanganuiTaranaki), Savidan (Auckland) and Priestley and Bayne (Wellington), a quartet of youthful distance runners that would do credit to their country m any company.

Apart from the question as to whether Rose can beat them, at least two provinces are vitally interested m the question as to whether Savidan can beat Gibbons.

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1 Wellington Representative.) aster Parks, Christchurch, the nd cycling championships of New a ready and willing. to break a ire to snatch the laurel wreaths of

furlong with the chance of Fleming (Wellington) pressing them close. The quarter-mile should prove a classic race. Fleming is the champion and he will not be easily disposed of, but he will find that Newton (Wanganui) and his team mate, Ramson, are pretty hard nuts to crack. Ramson has one victory over him this season, and Newton ran him to a minutely close finish at Wanganui last Saturday m the smart time of 51secs. At the same time, the writer feels that Fleming has not yet produced of his best, and the chances are that he will run surprisingly wtell at Christchurch.

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