£l,000 Goes With World’s Sprint Title

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 275, 10 February 1928, Page 10

£l,ooo Goes With World’s Sprint Title

Queenslander Wins First Race of Series

TIM BANNER BEATEN Close of professional pedestrianism will have noted per medium of newspaper cable from Mel bourne the defeat of Tim Banner, world's champion sprinter, in the first of a series of four contests—7syds, 100yds, 130yds and 440yds—which carry £I,OOO in prize money, and the title of the world’s all-round sprint championship.” Most of the critics looked on Banner as a “moral” to carry off the series, but considered he might have too strong

opposition from L. C. Parker, the Queenslander, who created a mild flutter in the amateur dovecotes recently by turning “pro.” in order to race Banner. Parker has “nine and four” to his credit for 100. It was not Parker who is going to worry Banner so much apparently as young Tom Miles, the Bundaberg flyer, who won the Stawell Gift last year. Miles beat both Banner and Parker last Monday night in the first event of the series, and from all accounts will be a hard nut to crack in the remaining events.