FLEET FOOT

NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 12

FLEET FOOT

Gore Girl Shows (From "N.Z. Truth's" Dunedin Rep.)

The Otago Centre Athletic Association threw its hat. in the air' the > other: week-;end when a young lady from. 'Gore showed promise of . bemq >y endowed with the. stuff of which champions are. made. TT was a pleasant surprise-packet for y. the authorities, who have been more than a bit worried j^bout- this season's Qtagb .team. There and then, the narrie, of Miss A?. Nichol was whispered round as a very likely point-getter m bigger, meetings. . ; r 7 Her style m winning the 100 yards handicap so impressed the .'officials at" thab meeting that they staged an -: invitation 100 : yards scratch race, which .she annexed with, five yards to spare from Miss M.7Pettet, Duriedin's crack lady '•''.''sprinter.''' b;" „"'. "JHer time was 12 3/ssec, which, considering the, deadness df the track and a strong head breeze, was a remarkably clever, run .for a girl: b 'J Miss Nichol owes her new athletic achievements to; the hockey field, and though her track. ;; experience' is^very limited, she shows remarkable skill in ' getting off the mark, b ,