NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS RACE, AT ANY RATE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 209, 23 November 1927, Page 11

NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS RACE, AT ANY RATE

- ~i' ‘ft % jfc -ft -r -j- -It & afresh, and stated that the Wanganui people who were at the championships knew perfectly well why Gibbons was disqualified, as he had personally explained the disqualification to them immediately after he had given his decision. It is hard to know what Wanganui 'vas driving at. The incident which led to its representative being disqualified was perfectly clear. Savidan and Gibbons were lighting out a thrilling neck-and-neck finish down the straight in the mile championship, when, in the last few strides, Gibbons accidentally jostled Savidan, throwing him out of his stride. The collision settled any chance Savidan had of wanning, and Gibbons went on and breasted the tape first. It was perfectly clear to everyone in the vicinity what had happened. The matter was Immediately reported to Mr McVilly. who was standing within a few yards of the writer at the time, and from the position he was in, he had a perfectly good view of what had happened. There was no surprise among hard and fast followers of the sport who saw the incident when the decision was announced. It was certainly bad luck for Gibbons, who might have beaten Savidan even if the collision had not occurred. But there is no saylnfl—it was such a desperately close 90—that either man might have 'rton, and under the circumstances, only one decision was possible. Kis stated that the Wanganui 9i?/ re wr °t© to the Auckland Centre asking it, as the body conducting the Championships, for details of Gibbons’s disqualification, and received no reply, ifiat is quite possible, as the centre “, ere h} *s a happy-go-Uicky style of carrying on its business which has previously been the si\>ject of complaint South. VYhat Mr. McVilly said in Wellington ;7 e other night was exceedingly i, *to the point. He was fully ' Justified In making it clear to the Wa-Sanui-Taranaki Centre that it was h fl r . r u trouble, which ought to been finished with long ago.