The Athletic Meeting.
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —Would you be bo good as to spare me spaco lor a few remarks on a paragraph by " Argus" re tho Amateur Athletic Club. He states that the " general feeling " seems to be averse to the Club holding their sports in April, as intonded, and that they should bo postponed till spring. Now 1 should like to know where "Argus" gotstnis "general feeling" from. I believe, from porhapa better exporienco than that writer's, that the feeling is quite in tho opposite direction. Many athletes who hung back from competing in tho last sports havo been arousod, and if tho Club roally wishes to encourage amateur athletics, as its aim is, it cannot do so better than by holding its next carnival on tho date proposed, viz. April 24. This day has been left blank on the cricket programme on purpose, and they run no more risk of inclement weather in April than they do in spring. Far from resting on their laurels, they should use every exertion to add to them, and not let the intereet in their endoavoura slacken by placing too long an interval between their meetings.— Yours very sincerely,
An Atbletk
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Auckland Star, Issue 44, 22 February 1886, Page 4
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201The Athletic Meeting. Auckland Star, Issue 44, 22 February 1886, Page 4
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