WELL-KNOWN IN WINTER ATHLETICS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 11

WELL-KNOWN IN WINTER ATHLETICS

last winter that hardly anyone else got a look-in at the sprints. His phenomenal last-minute dashes to the tape were quite the feature of the series. H. S. Roper ran second to Elliott iu the majority of the sprint events, and then announced his retirement from the sport for the summer months. It is more tliaimprobable that he also -will be turning out again. FIELD-EVENTS MEN In the field events, J. W. Shirley, when present, took the lead, and pul up some fail* performances with the discus. In the shot-putting, however, he Auckland champion met more than his equal iu D. H. Grant. “Bill’* Stewart, despite his 60 summers, took a hand regularly in both field events, and with a liberal handicap could usually manage to pull one or the other off. The other Bill, the prime mover behind these winter meetings, Mr. Morton, who is also president of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Association, was occasionally persuaded to try his hand with the discus. B. M. Murray and W. A. Faussett were also prominent competitors, and will most likely be seen in the field again. CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS Throughout the winter the weekly steeplechase will be the principal event on the programme, and the selection of a team to represent ihe province at the New Zealand crosscountry championship meeting in August is bound to act as an incentive to harriers to turn out regularly and do their best. Last year Auckland was represented by J. W. Savidan, who won the New Zealand title. Gordon Kells, F. Cooper, and Con. Scown, with E. P. Henshall first emergency. Later sole representative in the Australian Savidan competed as the country’s and New Zealand cross-country championships at Adelaide, and upheld the name of New* Zealand by running second to George Hyde, the redoubtable Victorian. Naturally, the four who travelled South last year will be anxious to keep their places in the but they will be kept up to the mark by “DELIVERED—PIPE” "Why should we care whether tobacco is raised in the Sahara or on an iceberg, or whether it comes packed hi cork or cast-iron containers?” writes Mr. K. M. Crob. “I buy my tobacco because of the way it tastes in the pipe. That is why I use EdgoWorth.” The producers of Edgeworth are of course vitally interested in its pedigree, in its blending, its curing, in every detail of its development. But all their work and experiment and study are devoted to one object—that Edgeworth prove its worth, that the ideal tobacco for so many smokers is delivered as these smokers want it to the pipe.