The Archive · 1937

TO SYDNEY Toronto, Ontario

Canad will be represented by' team of seven girls in the British Empire games in Australia next year.

Those in a position to judge, told Reuters correspondent that they consider that the best chances of the senior dominion will be in the relay race the medley relay and the Javelin throwing event perhaps the most outstanding per former from this country. will be Miss Robinna Higgins of Winnipeg. Manitoba, who has hurled a javelin a distance of 127 feet and it is felt that this performance will be hard to. beat.

Heading' the sprinters will be Miss Aileen Meagher of Halifax, Novi Scotia, who has run the hundred yards in eleven seconds. Another Useful performer for short distances will be Miss" Jeanette Dolson of Toronto, Ontario, "The presence of several consistent ly good runners in the team is calculated to xive Canada a food chance jin the relay events "and it is not forgotten that in the Empire games in London in 1934 this dominion won the medley relay.

Besides sprinters and Javelin thrower, Canada will be represented by a huirdier and competitors for the broad and high jump.—Reuter.

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