CASH ATHLETICS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 February 1914, Page 2

CASH ATHLETICS.

AND SOME CYCLING N6TES. A good programme has been prepared by the Rakaia Sports Club for its annual gathering on Easter Monday (April 13). The principal event is the Rakaia Handicap, of three distances (100 yds, 150 yds, and 220 yds) with prizes totalling £ls. Other events are a 100 yds maiden handicap, 440 yds open, 880 yds open, and one mile handicaps, and a 220 yds consolation race. The cycling races scheduled are mile, "two miles, _ and three miles open handicaps and a two miles and a half consolation raee. There will be the usual jumping and other competitions and two tug-of-war contests. Entries will close on Tuesday, March 31.

KAIAPOI ROAD RACE. The Kaiapoi Cycling Club has applied to the Canterbury Centre of the N.Z.A.U. for permission to holH a road race of 20 miles on Saturday, February 21, the course, to be from Kaiapoi through Flaxton, Rangiora, and Woodend, finishing at Beach Road, Kaiapoi. A cup .valued at £4 4/-, presented by Fletcher, Humphreys and Co., will be the first prize, and there will be other prizes amounting to £3 6/-. Nominations will close on February 18. In connection with the Dun lop despatch relay race against time, over a distance of 100 miles, the Kaiapoi Cycling Club has decided to despatch a team on March 7. It is probable that the course will be on the HovrelvilleWest Eyreton Road. The. team will be selected from the,following members of the club:—-P. o'.Shea, A. Bonis, P. Humm, H. H. Gibson, A. G.Wiing, H." Yaxley, H. F*. Williams, J. MeTeigue, F. Everett, W. Crossan, P. O Connor, and W. Arnst. It is anticipated that this team will lower the present record of 4hrs 28min 0 2issec.

AUSTRALIANS AT HOME. As usual, there was wretched weather for the Boxing Day meeting at the Cardiff Stadium. Two colonials competed in a £SO handicap oyer 220 yds, they being Jack Donaldson, who, of course, was on scratch, and A. W. Shaw, 10yds start. Donaldson won his first heat in 224 sec, although reported not quite lit, but in the second round he was beaten by W. J. Gaskin (Cardiff), 22 yards start, by half a yard in 21 2-ssec, the winner being in much better condition. Shaw was put out in his first heat, and the final resulted in a rompaway win by the strong favourite W. Thomas, of Merthyr (36, yards start). Later in the day Shaw (4 yards) walked over in his heat in a 100 yards handicap, but could only manage to get third in the final to F. Gaze (Pontypridd), 18-1 yards start. At Newcastle, England, on Boxing: Day, the £IOO 120 yards handicap was won in an easy fashion by J, W. Foster, of Hexham, 14£ yards start. C. Mears (Australia), oh yards start, ran up against Foster in the second round, and was beaten into third place. Foster, who is 33 years of age, started sprinting in his seventeenth year, and has won several minor victories, but this is the first, big win he has, pulled off. PISTOL.