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LAY’S JAVELIN THROW
Stanley Lay, New Zealand’s lirst nominee for the Olympic Games, registered another very long javelin throw at Pukekura Park when he surpassed the Australian and New Zealand record of 209 ft. 4in.. which he established recently at New Plymouth, by three inches. The distance was not measured surveyor, as a record could not be granted owing to the fact that the meeting was not a registered one (says the Taranaki “Herald”), but the officials who measured the distance arrived at the above result. Lay threw eight times, and, at the fifth attempt the javelin landed just past the flag marking the record, the crowd cheering its appreciation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 10
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112NOT OFFICIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 10
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