AMATEUR ATHLETICS,
The winter season of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club was opened Carlaw Park on Saturday in conjunction with the Stack benefit carnival. The programme consisted of 75yds flat handicap, the metropolitan steeplechase and a putting-the-shot competition. There were close finishes in Ihe heats of the sprints, and the finish of the steeplechase roused great enthusiasm, X. F. Cooper, the second runner to finish, extending the champion, J. W. Savidan, the winner. The results are as follows: 75 YARDS HANDICAP. Final. A. G. Bond 1 H. S. Roper 2 A. J. Elliott « A. E. Butler * Time, 7 3-ss. "Dead-heat for third place. METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE, One mile and a-half. J. W. Savidan, scr, 8m 41s .......... 1 N. F. Cooper. 6s. Bm. 42s '2 J. Crumm, 255. 8m 463 3 W. Watt, 30s, 8m 48 2-5s 4 PUTTING THE SHOT. E. S. Wills. 3ft. 34ft 1 G. R. Metealf, 10ft, 33ft Bin 2 O. Dunlop, 2ft 3in, 33ft 7|in 3 Fifteen competitors. At the conclusion of the steeplechase. Mr. G. E. Rhodes, chairman of the Auckland Rugby League management committee, presented to J. W. Savidan, the cup donated by Mr. W. Morton, president of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, for the winner of the Metropolitan steeplechase. The clnb's winter programme will be continued at the Domain next Saturday. Among the spectators of the athletic and boxing events at Carlaw Park this afternoon. was Mr. R. W. McVilly, president of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. and ex-president of the New Zealand Boxing Association.
Because teachers must be engaged to care for the 3600 additional pupils in San Francisco public schools, the budget of the Board of Education, now being prepared, will be approximately £2,500,000 for the next fiscal year. Last year's budget was £2,420,000, of which £1,890,000 went for salaries and maintenance, and the balance for school buildings.
The people of the United States buy 300,000,000 pairs of shoes every year. Stepping on the gas is wearing on shoe leather.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1928, Page 13
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