SPORT OVERSEAS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1041, 4 August 1930, Page 13

SPORT OVERSEAS

STAMFORD BRIDGE MEET FRANCE BEATS ENGLAND LONDON, Saturday. Xt an athletic sports meeting at {taniford Bridge today, France beat England by 65 points to 55. France won the 100 yards, Avergno running the distance in 9 4-ss. Other French wins were:—One mile, Ea Doumergue; long jump, Barbier, .jft 4in: high Jump. Menard, 6ft 3in; pule jump, Pfamadier, 12ft 9in; putting ,l, e weight, Noel, 45ft Tin; discus ■lirow. Noel, 144t't lOJin, France secured all the places in the discus throw and long jump and first \ (n d second in the high jump and weight putting. England won the following events: 120yds, Englehart. 21 4-ss; quarterpile, Brangwin, 50 4-ss; half-mile, jlumpson, lm 53 4-ss; two miles Sieeplechase, Bailey. 10m 55 3-3 s; three miles, Winfield. 14m 57 2-ss; 120yds jjurdles. Lord Burghley, 14 9-10 s; and tls mile relay. INTER-STATE RUGBY SYDNEY, Sunday. In a Rugby Union football match yesterday. New South Wales defeated "Queensland by 19 points to IG. INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY CAPETOWN, Saturday. In a women's hockey tourney at Pretoria, Scotland beat Australia by 4 Lais to 0, and England beat South Jfrica by 4 goals to 2. PEI TZF.R SUSPENDED .<LIN, Sunday. The athletic authorities have suspended Dr. Peltzer because he has not presented an expenses account for his recent world tour. Consequently he will not compete in the German championships now being: held. EMPIRE GAMES TEAM COMPETING IN CANADA VANCOUVER, Saturday. A message from Hamilton, Ontario, lays J. W. Savidan, of Auckland, and Allan Hillhouse, of Australia, ran by invitation at the weekly twilight meeting of the Hamilton Olympic Club last evening. Both men will compete at the Empire Games. Hillhouse won the three miles race after a stirring contest with Savidan. He bettered the Canadian record for the event. His time was 14min 25£ lec. G. Golding, of Australia, ran. 440 yards in 50sec, and was placed second to Wheeler, of Hamilton, who had 30 yards handicap. The Australians and New Zealande.s ire anxious for a Canadian athletic team to visit their countries in December and January. The managers of the teams stated yesterday that an •ffort would be made to secure the Olympic sprint champion, P. Williams; J-Ball, the P. Edwards, the haK-miler; and others. Games at AmsterJam in 1928, Percy Williams won the 100 metres in 10 4-ssec, and the 200 metres I IAA 88c ; James Ball was second in K, TM me * res - w ° ll in 47 4-ssec, and Phil Edwards fourth in the final of the *■o metres, with Lloyd Hahn fifth. Goldran in Auckland.