Miss Thelma Kench
Special to THE SEN WELLINGTON, Today. A new star has arisen among the women athletes of the Dominion in Miss Thelma Kench, at one time a resident of Wanganui, but now living at Lower TTutt, Wellington. Miss Kench was successful at the New Zealand championship tournament in winning the 100yds event for women, beating such tried runners as Misses E. Martyn and X. Wilson, and equalling the Dominion record of 11 l-ssec. That was really the first announcement that New Zealand got as a whole that a new champion has come on the scene, though Wellington received some inkling of a likely change some years previously. Miss Kench is only 16 years old. but when she was 13 she surprised Wellington athletes by winning a big event at Athletic Park, and ever since then she has continued to improve until today she is the Xew Zealand champion. On March S last she ran 120yds at Wellington in 13 1 -ssec. and it was on that occasion that she was forecast as a winner at Wanganui, a judgment which proved to be correct, for she knocked onetifth of a second off Miss Norma Wilson’s best time.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 9
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198Miss Thelma Kench Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 9
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