Sports Log

NZ Truth, Issue 1211, 14 February 1929, Page 15

Sports Log

SHOWS PROMISE A REAL young champion is Miss P. ** Robertson, the Auckland intermediate representative, who collected all the available titles m her class at the New Zealand swimming champion- :■.■- ships. Miss Rob- . ertson commenced

by surpr is m g everyone with her speed m the intermediate hundred, when she took two-fifths of a second v of£ Miss D. Magee/s record of 68:4/5 sec. As a matter of fact, the young Au colander swam just a fraction slower than the senior

" ladies over tne Miss P. Robertson same distance. Her 220 win, too,

was full of merit, as she won easing up from her fellow-competitors. Had she been . pushed ,■ she would have j shaken the record for the distance. WILL SHAKE THEM pHAMPION lady sprinters will have to look- to their laurels next week when Miss V. Nichol, of Gore, toes the line m the Dominion events. At the Otago Centre's championships last Saturday, the young lady helped herselfi to the Otago championship by leaving the 100 yards behind m 11 2/ssecs. This country Cinderella was hitherto unheard of m athletics until she was persuaded to try herself out against Dunedin talent. Her first appearance at a city meeting a little before Christmas was enough to convince the officials that Otago would be well represented m the national ladies' sprints. Miss Nichol has a free, natural gait, and by her form last Saturday, her training appears to be m expert hands. FINE SPRINTER

THE name Elliott has been associated so closely with amateur athletics m Auckland during the last few years, that people : are apt to think that ~ " " " was 'a. rival of Davidson, is the athlete who is present champion of the province. Actually they are not even relations, and the runner of to-day answers , to - the name of Jack to his friends, who are many. He is just as good, if no t a better, sprinter than his predecessor, and will be Auckland's first string for • the Ne w Zealand championship 100 yards . and furlong. , If at top he mayb e depended ,upon to make the opposition go all the .way, as his running at the last Australasian championships will testify.