Losses to Sport.

To the parents of Doreen and Bernice Lumley will the sympathy of all New Zealand track and field enthusiasts be extended. Twin sisters— page 64 one a New Zealand champion sprinter and Empire Games representative, and the other also a sprinter above the ordinary—the Lumley sisters met their deaths in a motor accident. I first saw these young athletes when the national track and field championships were held in Auckland in 1937 and was impressed by the starting abilities of Doreen, who finished second to Miss Ida Campbell that year. That same year, in December, Doreen won the Empire Games trial at Wellington, and was selected as sprinter in the New Zealand team for the Empire Games at Sydney. Over there she did not fulfil expectations, but she showed the benefit of her visit by equalling the world record this year in competition against Miss Decima Norman, Empire Games champion. Miss Doreen Lumley was definitely an Olympic Games prospect and her sister, although not in the same class, was her equal in sporting attributes.