AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 288, 5 December 1929, Page 18

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

TECHNICAL OLD BOYS MEET.

. Splendid fields faced the starter on the Domain last evening, when the Technical College,. Old Boys' Amateur Athletic Club opened ..its season. ..The track was in excellent order and the racing keen.- ■ Couper was well treated by the ha-ndlcapper in the Short' sprint, :in' a. closely-contested .final. In the.22oyds,.L. H. Meredith repealed good form and won by- a fair K>l B %l'i 0m A A - *,' Ell (°tt, Auckland and New Zealand sprint champion, ' Barker vir-tually. scratch man in the middle distance, ran with his usual consistency 1 ?-^' ,1^8 ' h°DOU--100 Yards • heat: N Funnell (6jyds) 1, A.- J.: Elliott; (scr) 2, Horan (10yds), 8. Second heat: R. Wiley (Byds) 1, R. ;J. Coupet (Syds) 2, Macte ! Willey 1, boupfir 2, Elliott and Funnell (dead-heatV 3. Won by 4n fo v' ' I ? th ?f betw eGn second and third ? rd A Handicap.—L. H. Meredith (6yds)-1,. A. J. Elliott 2, Kerr-Tavlor (12yds) 3. Won by two feet, inches between second and'third. ' ,880 yards Haridicapl-r-L. C. Barker (14yds) 1, E. -G. Kirkwood' (26yds) 2 J Crum (26yds) 3. Barker- An an excel-lently.-Judged race, which he Won by a clear ten': yards. . Starting off the same mart with Murray, he immediately hopped away to get up with the bunch going round the back for the first time. At the bell he was lying fourth and Striding , aloiig nlceVv Rounding the last bend he took Command" and won with ease from . Kirk Wood, who was beginning to fade out.

MANUKAU CYCLE CLUB. fn between events the Manuicau: Cvcline 2 foiwf- Sev6ral races: aw Hdlf-miie Junior Race .—J. Colemai, 60yds) 1, K. Hellier (40yds) 2, L ofton by 20yds lm 22s - Colemin woS Three-mile Senior Race.— J. H. Wade ( 1, A Mackie (90yds) S, F. J. Casey (40vdS .3. Time; : : 7m, 48 2-ss. • Nineteen cyclists faced the; starter. Wade-and Casey the •back*marKerfi, Quickly overhauled the'field and sat .in until the last time round, when Wade shot to the front. He won by a length. Mackie was half a length ahead of m Casey, who timed his sprint well The club will decide a half-mile senior and a one-mile junior handicap next Wed-