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No 189 : March 25, 1970

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Another Two Inches

Senior champion, Roger Clark, smashed the high jump record of 5' 4" at the Lytton High Athletic Championships. Increasingly good times are recorded each year and it remains to be seen what the ultimate in record times will be.

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Roger Clark making his record-breaking jump.

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Roger Clark determinedly takes the senior 200 metres.

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Lindsay Carroll takes the junior 400 metres.

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Mark Barnes wins the intermediate 400 metres.

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Beverley Dickinson, senior girls' champion, breaks across the tape to take the 400 metres event.

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Another record was set when Harina Kohere put the shot at 28'0¼" for the intermediate title.

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The junior 400 metres went to Leigh Mills.

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Gillian File annexed the intermediate 400 metres.

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In a desperate finish to the intermediate 100 metres hurdles, Michael Gillespie (left) just beat Brian Goldsbury.

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Facial concentration as competitors wait for the gun at the start of the intermediate 100 metres. From left; Rod Glengarry, John Crawshaw, Ron Scott, Wayne Post, John Whitley, Ross Chalmers, Michael Gillespie. Gillespie was first, Scott second and Post third.

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