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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 8 (November 2, 1936)

A New Zealand Pole-Vaulter

A New Zealand Pole-Vaulter.

One of New Zealand's most promising pole-vaulters, M. V. Blake, who won the National and New Zealand University Championships last season, has left New Zealand to link up with the Royal Air Force in England. Blake may come under the eye of Captain F. A. M. Webster, well-known athletic coach and father of Dick Webster, English champion pole-vaulter, in which case he will be fortunate. Captain Webster has a soft spot in his heart for New Zealanders and played a big part in the improvement made by Stan. Lay in throwing the javelin. Under Webster's tuition, and within a fortnight, Lay added twenty feet to his previous best javelin throwing figures!