ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 10 February 1906, Page 12

ATHLETICS.

Nigel Barker leaves Sydney for Athens to take part in the Olympian Games on Saturday next. The dates for the, Games are from April 22 to May 2. I Mr J. E. Sullivan, secretary and -Tea-1 surer of the American Amateur Athletic; Union, went to England recently to try! and induce the English A.A.A. "to form ; an alliance with the American Union. I The illness of Mr Herbert, secretary to the English union, frustrated the object, but Mr Sullivan will again visit England in a few months. | New Zealand at last seems to have unearthed a long jumper in Keddell, a' young Oamaru athlete, who in his first jump at the Dunedin Civil Service Club's Sports cleared 21ft 3in. He was not required to jump again to win, but took the other two jumps, and in one cleared 21ft 9_in, and in the next 22ft sin—a record for New Zealand j A. R Churchill, the Cam-bridge blue, K. Cornwallis, the Oxford half-miler, and S. Abrahams, the Cambridge long jumper, intend to compete at the Olympian Games. ' Hector Burk won* the quarter mile from scratch in 53 3-ssec, and was second in' the half-mile in 2min lsee, at the Dun-j edin Civil Service Sports last week. I The Dunedin Amateur Athletic Onb '■.comes of age on Saturday next, when the 21st annual rarni-al will be held. '