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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 26, 1940
Page
6
St Mark's Harriers struggled at Olympic Parks in a close inter-club meet with Melbourne clubs. Absence of Trevor Frazer weakened the A grade, Alec Priest and Len Brown claimed the only top finishes, while Roy Cox won the mile and overall track conditions drew criticism as clubs prepare for Selwyn Park handicaps.
Results show Melbourne sweeping A2 and C7 grade events. F Dunkley wins sprints and distances, with Melbourne athletes placing in pole vault, mile run, 440 yards hurdles, and shot put. Notable times include Mile Run around 4 minutes 33 seconds and 220 yards near 24.5 seconds.
FRANK DUNKLEY was the outstanding athlete of the day with a third in the 220 yards, second in the shot put and 440 hurdles. ROY COX won the A grade mile in 4.33 1/5 a good performance but could be faster. ALAN BROWN used different tactics and finished third in the same event. Alan tended to tag behind during laps for the final sprint.
Sunshine face defeat as Princes Park declare at 133 with five wickets. Sunshine all out for 26 in 2 hours. Key bats include N Simpson, S Hand, B Ivison, and E Paterson. Bowling leads by Hawkins, Carter, and Simpson who takes four wickets for 24.
cricket match scoreline shows Sunshine and Waratah Waratah with 127 in first innings. Hauser out for 0, Howard out for 0, Scott out for 4, Chigwidden and Halliday add 45, Pengelly out to Allen, Murphy not out, Clayton dismissed, and other batsmen listed with multiple dismissals and scores.
Extras totalled 6.06 with the innings ending at 10. Bowling figures show Crook 1/1, Dalling 1/?, Le Young 4/37, Howard 2/29. In the second innings M Haxby not out, A Halliday and Chigwidden shared wickets as Pengelly bowled 0/10 and McGovern 1/6.
Seymour's Corner advertises a stock taking sale running until February 1 featuring back to school clothing for children. Prices include boys shirts and knickers, overalls, ties, pyjama pants, knickers, hats, suits, and coats with many items in the range of 1d to 25s and common sale marks like 3/11, 2/6, 1/6, and 4/11. Be a window shopper and save.
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