AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 275, 19 November 1926, Page 9

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

* THE AMERICAN VETO. VISIT OF R. W. LAMB. (3y Telegraph. — Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. Although the American athletes are. not coming, arrangements have been completed for R. W. Lamb, the Australian amateur cyclist, to tour the Dominion this season, so the season will not be without some special attraction. I Until a letter is received from Mr. C. j Krogness, the council doe9 not know how it stands in regard to future American j tours. The American Amateur Council has decided that athletes going abroad are not allowed to remain in the country they visit more than 21 days. The annual meeting of the American Union was to discuss the application for a tour of America by European athletes. It is considered probable that the proposal may have been turned down, and that the council, therefore, felt it incumbent to take similar action in regard to the proposed tour to New Zealand. VARSITY V. TRAINING COLLEGE. An nthletlc tournament has been arranged between student athletes from the Auckland University College and the Auckland Training College, and it is intended to make this tournament no annual one. The events will be decided at the Outer Domain on Monday and Tuesday next, com- i mencing at 4.30 p.m. The following are the events whlrh will be decided:— Monday.—loo yards championship, 440 yards championship, one mile championship, high jump, putting the shot, halfmile walk. Tuesday.—22o yards championship. BSO yards championship three miles run. broad jump. 120 yards hurdles, throwing the hammer, one-mile walk. The Trnining College athletes are already in training for their own sports, which are to be held shortly, while the University College team is likely to contain athletes of the rnlihrc of I{. C. Williams, T. R. Ilenrv, J. D. Willis and K. M. Griffin. ; I