AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 134, 13 July 1914, Page 3

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

A HUNDRED YARDS RACE. During the half-time interval in the Christehurch-Merivale senior match on Saturday the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association got off a hundred yards race on the oval at Lancaster Park. Originally the race was intended to be of 100 metres, but for some reason that wa« altered to yards. Nine runners started, and they provided a very fine race, only inches separating them at the finish. E. E.' "l.)c Rago, starting from the Iyd mark, just won, with VV. It. Down, Iyd, second. The other competitors were: A. H. Khouri scr, W. S. Pratt Ivd, W. J. Barnett 2yds, M. O. Barnett 2yds, C. R. Sinclair 4yds, J. M'Gettrick syds, W. J. Taylor 9yds. Considering that the track was heavy, the time recorded, 11 l-ssee, was creditable.

The project of holding one of-these races every Saturday is a decidedly good one. Another will be held in the half-time interval next Saturday, and entries will close at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

RED AND BLACK ASSOCIATION, M'CULLY CUP COMPETITION. The third event for the M'Cully Cup, which took the form of a go-as-you-please race on the Cashmere Hills, was held on Wednesday evening last, July 8. The course was from the foot of the hills round the tramline, up the Hackthorne Road to Shirley's Corner, and back by the same route to Packwood's Store, a distance of about three miles and three-quarters. A good race resulted as follows:—R. F. Gudgeon (Uniin) 1, E. V. Phillips (3-Jmin) 2, I). C. Inglis (2|min) ."., R. H. Brownlie (Hmin) 4. The fastest time was secured by R. F. Gudgeon in the fast time of 18min 48sec. A. Greenfield, from scratch, who finished sixth, secured second fastest time, doing the distance in I9min ,'SOsec. The fastest time for the same rase last year was 20min 19sec, secured by D. C. Inglis. Two more races are still to be held, and the competition is, now in a very interesting stage. The following are the points secured for the eup to date:— R. V. Gudgeon 11, A. Greenfield 7, K Phillips 6, R. H. Brownlie 2, I). C. Inglis 2, A. Waddell 2, T. N. Wallace 2.