School athletes

They are Faster and Better

Old timers may ofter be heard to say that youth isn't what it was in their young days. And in a great many ways it isn't.

But in the field of human endeavour on the athletic tracks, and indeed in sport of all kinds, the youngsters of today could run their fathers and grandfathers into the ground any time, and that goes for mothers and grandmothers, too.

The most frequent sports headline in the newspapers of today proclaims that another record is broken. In athletics, in swimming, and in a dozen other competitive sports, the story is the same, as though youth, born into an age of speed, is impelled to make the human frame, with all its frailties, compete with the ever-faster machine.

Random shots taken at school athletic meetings in Gisborne over the past few weeks show some of these young competitors in action.

Pictures on this page, and the next, were taken on March 24 at the annual inter-secondary, school sports for H.B.-Gisborne-E.C. schools, held at the Childers Road reserve.