EVENING SPORTS AT WELLINGTON
SOME GOOD RACING WELLINGTON, Sunday. About 3,000 people atended the evening athletic sports meeting yesterday. C. H. Jenkins won the 100yds. handicap from scratch in 10 4-ss. F. Grose was fourth in his heat of the 800yds. cycle handicap, and .won both the mile and tbbee miles* handicaps decisively. In the mile Grose flashed away from the opposition in the first lap as if they were standing still. In the three miles event L. Beere, who was going well, dashed ahead of the field at two and aquarter miles and established a lead of 50yds., but was caught by Grose inside the next quarter of a mile. Grose won by 20 yards. E. Keskinen, the decathlon winner at the Australian and New Zealand championships, competed in field events, but was not in good form. The one mile handicap was won by A. D. Priestly (20yds.), who beat G. Bayne (20 yds) by three yards in 4m 30 l-ss. Putting the shot event went to P. M. Munro (scr.), with a distance of 42ft. lOjfein.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 6
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178EVENING SPORTS AT WELLINGTON Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 6
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