Lloyd Hahn’s Uncle Had a Barn Bigger Than Wellington Government Buildings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 281, 17 February 1928, Page 10

Lloyd Hahn’s Uncle Had a Barn Bigger Than Wellington Government Buildings

"DATTERING over half a mile of tan track in the Brooklyn Athletic Armoury one night last month. Lloyd Hahn, stockv

American middle-distance runner, created a mild stir by returning lm 53 4-os for the indoor journev Although the German. Peltzer. has done two seconds better than that on cinders out of doors Hahn's nippy effort was classed as an indoor track record, until somebody with a kink for rules discovered that wooden markers had not been laid down on the track in accordance with regulations. So Mr. Hahn his record. This same cheerful soul made strenuous efforts in Maoriland to counteract the effects of good New Zealand “kai” and the weight-producing climate, but he was never able to reduce his waistline sufficiently on that tour to enable him to get the better of Randolph Rose, except oa one occasion. American sporting exchanges tip Hahn as an Olympic representative this year. He was an entertaining chap, this same Hahn, when he was in New Zealand. In windy Wellington, they took him and Scholz along to see the Government Buildings, which were proudly pointed out to the Americans as “the largest wooden building in the world.” “-Some little place,” murmured Scholz politely, but Hahn burst out: “Golly my uncle's got a barn on his ranch bigger than that!” Collapse' of the admiring Wellingtonians.