ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

ATHLETICS.

Once more the Auckland Amateur

Athletic and Cycle Club 'comes up smiling' with an annual report and balance sheet calculated to make similar athletic, bodies green Avith envy. Of the prosperity of the Club one may judge by simply referring to the balance sheet; the figures speak for themselves. The Club started the year with a credit, balance, of £320 .16/, and receipts during the past twelve months have swelled this amount to £1110 7/8. The expenses for the same period have been unusually heavy, £752 10/2 in all, yet the Club finishes up the year with a balance in hand of £357 17/6. In addition to this cash balance the Club has a working plant valued at £87, and other assets tot up to £497 10/11, against which there are no liabilities whatever. The year has been one of progress, and thanks to careful and judicious management the Auckland'A.A. and C.C. is more than ever entitled to the proud distinction of being the strongest athletic institution in Australasia. G. W. (Mon, who Avon the steeplechase championship at the English Championship Meeting, affords another instance (says the 'Sporting and Dramatic News') that brains and athletic ability often go together. The little Canadian, who, during his athletic career, has won eighteen championships, is a splendid scholar. He graduated from Toronto University in 1894, being second man. in his class, and first in English. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania, and gained his ALA. in 1894, and his Ph.D. in 1896, being the youngest scholarthat ever won such honours at Pennsylvania. Orton has now gone to Berlin to master the German language, so as to fit himself for Ids future career of University work and teaching. G. B. Tincler, the famous Irish runner, is twenty-four years of age, having been born at Sandycovb Castle, Kingstown, in March, 1874. He is a son of the late Mr G. B. Tincler, a well-known Dublin solicitor and sportsman, and was educated at tho Rathmines Grammar School, where he made his debut as an athlete in 1592. In 1893 he Avas deprived of his amateur status by the Irish A.A.A. He then joined the professional ranks, assuming the Home de track of 'J. Craig, of lm .-mess? and making his debut as a professional at tbe PoAvderhall Grounds, Edinburgh, on New Year's Day, 1894. In its report of the Limerick Commercial sports, Dublin 'Sport' credits P. Leahy, of Charlesville, with establishing a world's record Avhen be cleared 6ft 5Mn in the high jump. The contest was for the Amateur High Jumping Championship of Ireland, but Leahy's figures, although exceptionally fine, just fail to eclipse the 6ft s|i'n by M. F. Sweeney, at N.Y. City on September 21, 1895. The paper also credits T. F. Kiely, of Carriek-on-Suir, with a record for his 152 ft 9-Jin with the 16lb hammer—run and folloAv—but this, too, is incorrect, J. Flanagan having better figures both at this style and from a sevein-foot circle. T. F. Kiely's 40ft 3in with the 561b weight (unlimited run and follow) is uo* u commented upon, although I figure it out to be over two feet better than the previous best record. In the putting the 28lb shot (championship of Ireland), Dennis Horgan, of Banteer, put 35ft 3_in, which is a Avorld's record for either amateurs or pros., either with or Avitliout follow. —Sydney 'Referee.' Official authority has been forwarded Mr A. L. Baircb hon. secretary of the New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association, now in London, to act for that body in connection Avith the idea of sending an Australasian athletic team to assist at the Olympian games Avhich will be brought off in conjunction with the Paris Internation Exposition two years hence. It is understood that Mr Baird will interview the originators or controllers of the scheme, and obtain from them all possible information with regard to details. I