ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 225, 21 September 1915, Page 8

ATHLETICS.

The annual 'te<-p!echa<sc in connection with the King's College sports takci> pl.icc over the usual course on Tliurft day, tlie 30th inst. The school sporte will bo held a fortnight later in the Domain. Dcp.to the fact thnt both men are eager to try roiiHu«ione the proposed match ever RSO varj* between 11. Robinson, of Australia, und A. \V. Dfermor. •if Auckland, » not likely to eventuate. When the preliminary negotiations rent filtered into it was decided that Auckland woiilil he the most siiitahlc centre for the New Zealand and the virtual Australian champion to meet in. but this de-JMon was always qualified by the proviso that the breach between the N'rw Zealand anil Northern I'nionsfihouM b,. healed. Within the paot few -ia/s the blunt announcement that furtlier obstacle to the settlement of the dispute have risen, has been mode, and the abandonment of the proposal to niateh the distance fracke in Auckland automatically followed. A single event, no matter what fame the principals pomem. doee not offer the athletic attraction that i« necmsarv tn interest the genera] public, it is hardly likely the Australian crack will jeopardise his status for the sake of a single match, which, nt the worst, is postponed on!y till such time as Dormor visitn Australia. Dormer's supporters now intend giving Robinson's party the refusal of a match in Australia, nnd in the event of their inability to arrange a meeting, the New Zealand champion, although failing by reason of defective eyesipht to pass the ordinary test, will join the Army Service Corjis