LIKE A BIRD

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 14

LIKE A BIRD

Savic&h Swqb^s^me To Victory (Fr.om./'NiZi Truths Wanganui. Rep.) The performance :.put; up by J. W. Sayidanjh winning the New • Zealand dross- cou^itry^ champion- : sh|p at Wanganui \ last Saturday ;was distinctly creditable. TT/, THE Aucklander, ■ . not ; only ,i. finished ' . about 300 .yards'. ahead o,f ■; .tlie.' ne.xt best man, .' Randolph; liose, but he scarcely turned a hair m;, doing so. : ' / It was a real .crbss-cduritry.cpurse, very stiff at ; 'that, andT yet/ Sayidan covered the six miles arid'.a-qu?irter m 38min. 46sec— -truly . . wonderful time under the circumstances. ';*' TT' . ''. ,He is ; a man -riow;; th T an. twelve months. ago. It IsTtoi'be llfoped-he will be given the, opportunity To? once: again competing- 'against/the ; besi^ in'.';' Aus-. tralia. T y:.- ..-/...■, :,' .; ..',•,., v.. ?.,. 7./' ..-■.-. ■ Thirty -.one ,Tfaced ; Ttjje.,. starter,- last Saturday, Rose, being, the 'po'pylar. pick, but Savidari had many friends/ .This, pair were7,out7ih v frontV.fbr : . the' first, mile,. 7 which was rridstjy.y flat. Later on,, when they : got. into T the. hi|iy7country Rose commenced ; to drop , back. ; T TT; ../''. y"TT Up and. down hill running /evidently did not 'suit hiriv but to, all appearances, it made littje '.-• differerice."tp- the Aucklander,' who •' was striding along m great style. '■■ He led by 850 -..yards, at one stage. -'.'■.""'■'..- '''•'' 7- ''■' Fought It Out :■■,■?.. ' '■"; Silver drew up to Rose arid headed him, - while Tapp was "• next, : ./ with' Stevens,' Morris arid - Gibbons following m order. • ' -! ' All the way home Rose and -Silver were .hard at it., A -great race to the tape endedTih Rose, beating Silver by . ai. yard. y...TT '.■-;. -7 ..//;/■ : :/y •_ „,-■ •Tapp, of Durrediri, was aigpo'd fourth, a, position: he .held ; throughout ■ the r&ce.y ; . i -. .'■' " " .."'"' -"/:'••'*'.' When'th'e.i.points'Wd.bißenAa^de'd. lip ; it w^sTfoundttat the Weiling- -.''.. tori -.team had won the champion- „, ship with 19 points. ;.'. ft 6tago was second with '31,: points, arid Auckland third with '4l pbintfliT