COON CHAMPION
Tom Miles, recognised as the world's professional sprint champion, lost his title to the coloured sprinter. Lynch Cooper. A series of events with a Picked field, including Tim Banner (former pro-champion), Tom Miles. Bundy” Parker (ex-Australasian imateur champion) and Austin Robertson (former Public School champion of Victoria and winner of the Staweli Gift), some classy racing was anticipated. Miles and Banner both cracked up badly during the progress the racing and, with one race to go. ’he issue was between Austin Robertson and Lynch Cooper. In the final evenr. Cooper won the title. It seems a strange thing that the world’s pro. ChAttipionahip should be competed for solely by Australians, but. three years a ?o, Tim Banner travelled to England to m?et the holder of the title and was successful in winning. If others in wish to have a flutter at the • t.e they will have to come to Australia. _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 626, 1 April 1929, Page 13
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152COON CHAMPION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 626, 1 April 1929, Page 13
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