The Relay

Several other athletes qualified for finals in the course of the afternoon but the highlight of the day was the thrilling victory in the 4 × 110 relay by Lloyd Clarke, Brian Smythe, John Pearce and Lance Leikis. Owing to near perfect baton changing, the Victoria men were only a yard or two in arrears at the last change—the Otago men were faster but they lost ground at the changes. Laurie Leikis had to make up two yards on Otago's Colin Maguire, a 10 second man at best, and consequently produced the finest sprint he had turned in for some time to win by a fraction of an inch in 43.4 seconds.