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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10146, 20 September 1898, Page 6

" Weekly Press and Referee. [By Yauxter.] The American correspondent of an English exchange, referring to Bernard; J. Wefera, the great sprinter, who was thought to hare retired from the track, soys:—"The champion will go into training again in the fall, and will enter the Canadian games first at Montreal, in September. He also declares that he will be found in the New York Athletic Club meets. His refusal to race everywhere has caused the disgruntled ones to assert that he-is a 'quitter,' when in point of fact he has been devoting his time to study and leaving training alone. 'You can say I am no quitter,' said he, 'and in the fall others will have to hustle, as they have always had to! , Wefers has passed the examinations, and next term will report to the Georgetown Medical School."

From the following, which I clip from a Sydney exchange, it wm be seen that the statement that Roseingrave was gojng to take up his residence in Brisbane isincorreot: —M. M. Roseingrave, the Irish amateur athlete,' who has been in Australia for some years, and who, until recently, held , £__> world's broad jump record, does not intend (as was understood a few weeks ago) permanently taking up his residence in Queensland. Abetter received by Mr R. Coombes, president of the N.S.W.A.A.A., conveys the information that Roseingrave is in Armidale (N.S.W.) at the present time. •■

A. E. Cummins, the well-known Australian professional runner, is back in Sydney again, having arrived here by the Vancouver mailboat Warrimoo last Friday evening (says a Sydney paper of August 31st.) Since February last year, when he left far England, Cummins covsred himself with glory in the Old Country by securing several . valuable pries, including the Manchester Handicap of £100, < and this not more than a few days subsequent to reaching England. Afterwards the Australian , gained, further distinction in Sheffield handicaps, and later capped all these performances by appropriating the Champion Stakes, value £100, competed for at Manchester on Good Friday. Several other good things came .his way afterwards. Alto-r gether Cummins can be said to have exceeded tne most sanguine expectations, and accomplished a great deal more during his trip than might have been.-expected, good and all though he was known to be. He crossed the Atlantic with G. B. Tincler, the famous) English professional, - whs holds world's, coampionship honours.