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Newspaper
Sydney Referee
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 23, 1939
Page
13
At Sports Arena Sydney Mrs Walde Unthank set an amateur mile record with a strong final sprint finishing in 376 seconds. Mist Clara Croft is slated to race next Saturday in professional riders events as preparations for the Australian championships continue.
A fragmented report recalls Lennie Rogers dominating a Saturday night footrace event beginning in the garter mile and extending to the finals on Sunday night. Rogers used superior tactics to force errors, with Smith and Rogers competing intensely as observers praised Rogers’s outstanding performance and determined endurance.
Fragmented OCR text shows a quarter mile championship with references to times, places, sponsors, and multiple names. The readable portions indicate a racing event, measurements in miles, and names such as Levey and others, suggesting a condensed public notice or sports blurb about a track meet and results.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a five mile classic race with participants linked to various clubs and places. It mentions Magers Parsons and San Mono as runners with unclear team affiliations and references to results like 136 and 3 in a garbled context. The text is highly distorted but centers on a cross country or road race event and its entrants.
Fourshour Teams' Race featured Mannins and Pascoe leading to a win over the amateurs. The fragmented text mentions Mind Raa Felt and San uel, with unclear additional details. The readable names include Mannins and Pascoe as the victorious pair.
Guyatt achieves a celebrated victory in the St Patrick's Wheel Race before a large crowd, but a later match race saw him defeated by Peay (USA) amid a crowded field and varied reactions from spectators and participants.
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