ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 95, 21 April 1906, Page 12

ATHLETICS.

\ In the New york SupTeme Ckrart Justice Fitzgerald - has reserved his decision upon the application of F. Duffey'for; a mandatory "iinjuncfion to restrain the Amateur Athletic Union, from expunging ihis name and records -froni; the "Official Athletic Almanac." The .N.Z.A.A.A. has made more progress during the past six months than. in many years prior to that period (says "Sprinter" in the "Canterbury Times"). Improved management at headquarters is largely responsible. A fresh centre has been formed at Invercargill. The- New York A.C. hay been 37 years in existence, and an idea of its extra- ! ordinary scope may be gleamed from a few figures given out at the annual meeting (says the New York correspondent of the London "Sportsman"). At the beginning of the year the liabilitiesvof the club amounted to £164,065, and the assets to £311,010, leaving a surplus of nearly £ 146,800. The income alone last year was £78,463, and as a matter of I detail it may be mentioned that the profits came from, amongst other heads, I wines, liquors, etc., £4800, cigars £1593, 'billiards £1460, and carriage privileges £1175.

In a three miles race, at Oljmpia (London) recently, A. Shrubb beaiTchivers, Swarm, and Smitii, who ran as a team, by three yards, in 14m. 38 l-ss. A two miles running match for £20 a side was held between Alfred Shrubb and G-. B. Tincler at Olympia, London, on February 24. Tineler managed to Eeep with Shrubb for four laps, when the latter quickly opened up a gap of 10 yards, and, going right away, was 40 yards to the good" at the end of a mile. Shrubb continued to increase his lead, and won by half a lap in 9m 56 l-ss.

The team of athletes going out this month from Great Britain to Athens to compete in the Olympian games is not a team specially picked as a thoroughly representative one of • Great Britain. The following had made up their minds to go when the last mail left, viz., lieutenant H. iE. Hawtrey (now in Ireland with the Royal J2ngineers), who will compete in the Five Milee and the Marathon Race; R. E. Wilkinson, of the Sefton Harriers (second to G. E. Lamer in the A.A.A.- Two Miles Championship last July), who will take part in the 1500 Metres (1640 yards) Walking Race; J. W. Home (an old Midland Counties' quarter-mile champion), who will run in variotis races; K. Cornwallis and S. H. Carnelly (Oxford), A. X Churchill, R. P. Crabbe, F. Edwards, and S. Abrahams (Cambridge University); and, above all, the three Scottish cracks, Lieutenant Wyndham Halswell (English iand Scottish, quarter-mile champion), J. MeGough (Scottish mile champion), and W. D. Anderson (Scottish half-mile champion). The athletes leave London on Monday next.

J. Flanagan, world's record hammerthrower, and J. S. Mitchell, record shotputter, will be among the party of Americans who will compete at the English A.A.A. Championships.

R. J. Walker, an Australian representing Oxford, won the feather-weight boxing bout in the inter-varsity contest from T. D. Roberts (Cambridge).

The international cross-country championship laat month resulted in a win for England. The points scored (the positions of first six home being totalled and the team with the lowest total winning) were: England 24, Ireland T 86, Scotland 106. and Wales 108. C. J. Straw (England) was first home, running the ten miles in 57m. 32sec, Geo. Pearce (England) being second, in 57m. 55sec, and W. Nelson (England) third, in 58m. 11 sec. For the third race of this sort out- of the four, now gone, it rained heavens hard; The track" was soaked, and everything was damp and uncomfortable. Many men- complained of injuries, of cramp, of cold creeping over them, of their sliding yaTds down ■the side of the hill which the course traversed. Straw fell at least a dozen times —one of his tumbles causing him to temporarily lose the lead and then to carry a few pounds overweight. The other sides suffered similarly, one brave Scot finishing covered with gore.