Twenty Records Broken

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 6

Twenty Records Broken

SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ SPORTS High Standard in Auckland

THE annual sports meetings of Auckland > secondaryschools have now been held, and a review of times and distances reveals the fact that no fewer than *2O records were broken at the 3lt. Albert and Auckland Schools' meetings alone, while several were equalled. At King's College no records fell: but a consistently high standard of performances was achieved.

In Auckland during the past month, schoolboy athletes have clocked 23 1 -5s for the furlong, 53 2-5 s for the 440yds. and 10 4-5 s for the hundred under 1G; have cleared sft 4J in the high jump and covered the 120yds hurdles in the phenomenally good time of 15 3-ss. These performances, and others, record a standard in school athletics that has not been approached for many years. The most interesting record of all is perhaps the 15 3-5 s established by T. Sawers in the 120yds hurdles at the lit. Albert Grammar School sports. In doing so. he clipped two-fifths of a sec-

helped by the wind. The best sen* 100yds of this year was R. Fade's ,r Takapuna. His time was no better than Roberts’s. A. J. Sly field, a run l ner in the under 17 division, was another to show pronounced promise. H • broke two records, his 56s for the j quarter-mile being capped by a fu- : long: in 23 3-56. A FINE ALL ROUNDER In that long sprint the 440yds. Cuirey of Auckland Grammar, showed a slight supremacy over other school quarter-milers. T. Sawers. with ,53 3-se. took only l-5s longer, and T. H Caughey clocked 54 4-ss. Caughey. who is an all-rounder of the first water, as good at football and cricket as he is at swimming and running, covered the