ATHLETICS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12682, 21 December 1906, Page 7

ATHLETICS.

REVIVAL IN AMATEUR CIRCLES.

(special to "thb frbm.") WELLINGTON, December 20. The Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, which has done good work within the laafc year or two in popularising amateur athletic*, has issued a circular appealing to clergymen and directors and princionln of Colleges md educational institutions, masters of echools, leading citizens and nil parente for their practical patronage in the promotion of healthy outdoor athletic exercises for youths and young men. "Such recreation," says the circular, "is admitted hy leading members of the medical profession to be a heilthful and pleasant branch of physical culture. Amnteur sporte have been regularly held in Wellington during the past 18 years under the inspires and management of prominent citizens." The circular proceeds ac follows:—"Athletes to be successful must lend temperate and moral lives— an example the rising generation should be encouraged to follow. Too often young men, from lack of some exhilarating recreation, are in danger of contracting undesirable associations and habits, such is intemperance and Rambling. With your co-operation the Amateur Athletic Association hope to counteract such a possibility by furnishing young men with a manly form of recreation, which will prove beneficial to both mind and body. The practical aid of yourself and friends in euch a good cause is earnestly desired."