ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 272, 14 November 1903, Page 4 (Supplement)

ATHLETICS.

Competitors at the Amateur Athletic Club's Carnival on December 5 are reminded that the entries close on Saturday evening, November 21st. The management committee has placed a relay race for teams of four from mercantile houses on the programme of the spring carnival. The committee have acceded to the request of the University Athletic Club to place a race for students on the programme. The University Club will provide the prizes. At a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Boxing Association, Major R. A. Chaffey wrote that the "knock-out" blow could not be stopped altogether, or boxing would be made/ a farce, but he suggested that the limit of ten seconds should be extended considerably. Discussion followed, but no action was taken. The credit at date was reported to be £150 9/3, the liabilitiese totalling £9 14/2. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr Atack for the work done by him, and gratification was expressed at the manner in which the New Zealand repesentatoves had conducted themselves while in Australia.

The Victorian A.A.A., at its last meeting, passed H. H. Hunter's long jump record, 22ft 2in. Having decided to accept thi3 year's Caledonian Championship, the Oamaru Society baa set out to insure that the fixture shall be a huge success. The prizes allotted for the championship meeting are the best all round yet given at any athletic meeting in the colony, and the aggregate will also materially exceed any amount of money yet offered at a sports meeting in New Zealand (says a Christchurch paper). To further add to the popularity of the fixture, the secretary has received a letter from Mr D. Smith, of Queensland, the champion long distance runner, to the effect that he has decided to compete at the meeting, and that he will he accompanied by his younger brother, who is said to be as brilliant a sprinter as "Dave" is a long-distance man. A new star in the wrestling line has appeared in England, and is proving a great draw at the music halls. This is a Japanese named Yukio Tani, son of the champion wrestler of Japan, and hitherto undefeated himself. He takes on and puts down—usually In a tew seconds—the biggest, most powerful, and most skilled wrestlers that choose to stand up before him, and the marvel is how he does it, for he stands only sft lin, and weighs but 9st.

Still another records by Shrubb. He has established new figures for the mile and a-half. doing the distance ip. 6min 47 3-ssec. The "Athletic News" advises Shrubb to take a long rest.