ATHLETICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2492, 4 May 1909, Page 2

ATHLETICS.

INTERVIEW WITH THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPRINTER.

TO VISIT AUSTR ALIA.

JOHANNESBURG, March 9. R. E.' -Walker/ the South African sprinter, interviewed by Reuter’s representative, stated that he would sail for England on April 29. He will meet Kerr, the Canadian champion, in the English Championships at Stamford Bridge on July 3, and will then proceed to America and Canada, where he will meet Rector and many other American sprinters.. He will race Kerr again in Canada. • Walker is confident that he will beat all his opponents, declaring that he has improved his time since the Olympic Games. After leaving Canada he will visit Australia, and will possibly settle in England. He is determined to remain an amateur. —London “Sportsman.” AMERICAN ITEMS. New York, Feb. 24.—0 n Saturday night Dorando Pietri defeated a relay team of five men in a fifteen miles race in Ihr. 26min. 0 4-ssec., over a fourteen laps track. On Friday night Johnny Hayes was beaten by a. twoman relay team over ten miles in somin. 2sec. George Boriliag, Irish-Ameriean A.C., lowered the world’s indoor record for five miles at Troy, T.Y., last night, doiri" it in 24min. 58 l-ssec. Lewis Tewanina, the Indian, won the New Orleans Marathon, in which Mellor, Hatch, Forshaw, and other Olympic contestants were starters.