ATHLETICS.
The local runner, J. Berry, was again successful at the Takapau Sports this week, he being the first to reach the tape in the 100 yds, and second in the 220 yds. A good many followers of athletics were of opinion that G. V. Keddell, who was competing at Wellington on Saturday, was the Australasian champion hurdler, but this was not so, the runner at Wellington being a younger brother of the Dunedin crack, whose initials are G. P. jAfter a good deal of argument and the usual match-making troubles, Shrubb and Longboat met at Winnipeg on November 25th in a 16 miles match. Shrubb beat him easily, lapping him in the fourth, seventh, and twelfth miles, and, although Longboat got away again, Shrubb won by nearly three laps in lhr 3 min 50sec. This is about as slow a 16 miles as Shrubb has ever run in a race; but probably the track accounted for itl as the race was on the rink.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9717, 12 February 1910, Page 7
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165ATHLETICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9717, 12 February 1910, Page 7
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