Light And Shade
THE Australasian championship *■ meetings were not devoid of either humor or pathos. Regarding the latter, who could help feeling sorry for some of those champions who ran themselves almost to insensibility in vain endeavor to retain their laurels?
A case in point was that of A. J. Watson, ex-440yds. hurdles champion, who ran a game race only to crash exhausted over the last hurdle. Watson was unconscious when he was picked up and took over, an hour to recover. That was the spirit of the contenders.
On the lighter side, during the walking race a panting competitor took out his false teeth and flung them at the feet of a very astonished policeman who was standing near-by.
Again, the manager of a team caused a laugh at the finish of the mile walk by enthusiastically shaJking the winner by the hand and exclaiming: "Well run, boy; well run." Subtle, what?
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NZ Truth, Issue 1153, 5 January 1928, Page 12
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153Light And Shade NZ Truth, Issue 1153, 5 January 1928, Page 12
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