ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1913, Page 16

ATHLETICS.

i A Dunedin -writer, in I - the forthcoming cross-country «^?*? , administers a well-deserved ;.ip_M _ . Auckland in the following P? I *™?*!! ,In future some reasonable * C i - should be forthcoming that,;. j teams will be entered for the Sew/wr . land cToss-coimtry race, "^-^jL migbt be necessary to ; consider im , advisability of re vising the- ' abandoning tbe event altogether.: ,J»w» land has probably shown the leasvwn- ; sideration of any centre Tin the W"* lof the New Zealand---*-f_SS§3! championship. The big event ™» ' allocated to Auckland a *&#__s&_£ sons ago, and the centre workedJ«o to hold the race, w_uch-"tin*M< Ma _ - '- ! be abaaidoned unless a t- ur *; te ' forthcoming. At considerable; ; Otago dispatched a team to ,--****L That team won tt>..--<h*_ - P' though Hill, of Auckland, won ■ tBe J *J. dividm.l championship, -Ha«*r ' control of the big race, A™^^ made no effort to keep tie sport go™* . and it seen-s hopeless for Otago >'°» for ass-stance from that quarter. ■ Abet Ksviat is now to have a cut at J. P. Jones's Last year, when, he was ?_**&*£&_. . the Olympic trvonts,_Kiv-at, «gW*g in the 1-500 metres * M * n f.___ the full mile, and did 4-15 3-5,« d **.. ■ : hoped 'he may yet run faster ?_%,£s#.. Five men fhrished inside of *M ,- American feter-collegiate mrle »«e Cambridge (Mass.), recently. . w A__-; ' A. Shfubb, who .has *e»'.*ggthe Harvard distance MS to visit g - agrees with J. E. baurvaa «■■"_.-.<• __,- Had a h" e^ at tf after lids mile, and had he £™J_\_, the second quarter, and »**■"£_ _~ •first half-mile down would hare beaten £ S world's figures of done dose to 4.10. "*%£_%ss&s to take that man to Shrnbb. "The only *%2_\*. they would *^^Pj2SAt£3Bi- . they did m I <*«» [*_*_*?!*£_?_M rac e-irr*J«« tut****-* *-W t-*