ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 178, 28 July 1913, Page 8

ATHLETICS.

CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNING. WELLINGTON" PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) MASTERTOX. Sunday. The provincial rrosF-cotmtry Tjarrter <-hampioasirrn was run here on Saturday. Aiiout i>o liarrifTs. representing sis clubs, competed. The Brooklyn (Wellington) team -was successful, O.utTal (Wellington) beinc second and aiaeterton third. AUCKLAND HABEEEES. Tue AneiLand Hariers ield their Tisnal weekly run oa Saturday afternoon from t.lie ■Shelly Beach Baths. As per usual, Uie lenin was divided into two pa<-ks, arul striking out throngrli Point Etlti Vark the leadins men laid a good trail, along waterside atrepta, down Uie <-ll(Ts into Cox's Creefc, and tbenro over grass mtjadow? to the Point Chevalier Road, Just hefore reach! ing -nhicli T). B.'ac-k. of the fast pack, c-auglit up on Them, closely followed by the rest of his pack. Circling ronnd theback of the Stone Jn£ the combined pa-cks passed over vountry that, fully tested tlielr powers «f endurance, aad epentnaily worked theli way back iato Heme Bay. Prom the Bayneid Scbooi a good run home eoeneil \ Biuck getting homo, first, with Skinnet rnnner-Tip, The rlub take part In a cross] country rape from <he Manulcau Hotel next Saanrdnj. <