AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13161, 7 July 1908, Page 9

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

j ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIPS. i Unif<><l I'rpsa Association—By Electric I Tciejrapli—Copyright. j LONDON, July 5. , At the English Amateur Athletic i Championships, which wore hold at the I Olympic Stadium yesterday, H. St. A. Murray, ol C.'hristchurcii,. won hi>, I •■at 'of the 120 Yards' Hurdles in Iβ 3-^<< % j ai:d iv:u> third in the. final. li« ukn ■ .sUrttxi in trie Qua nor -Mile Flat, but was beaten in his licat. H. E. Kpit. <J was unplaced in the T«o , .\ii:e Walk. X " *r>efial mission of the two New .-•Utuday, mc <>! • ''<', P'ominioi) in th c uiyn.iilc G;u:!--, >••-!ic-h an> o.et do« 11 to on J.iiv . 1 ; U-'i, but tJu* officiaLs of cho N«>w Z.-;i- ---; land Ain;u"iir Athi«--ii<: Association ul^> j 1-ut.Tcd tlicrn for thf KnslLsh Amateur ; v,n,u;:j).oi:.s|i)j:s, i-.iii-ily wiUi a \n-«i .0 J fciviui; Lhfiiii a "«a!loj>" in public, which (.••» private .uaiTavs sp<?ci.il j distance i* 4-j(jyds hurdles, an event in wiiidi he lias ui-vcr botiii brawn at a j Championship ni«x j ting, and for which 1 his tiiui' j> oniy oao-tilth of a .second i outside tho world's record. This cvoiit, however, thouyji on the Olympic pio- ! Krajjiiut?. v 1:01 liKludiKl in tin- Knjjii.sh I'hanipioiicihijiS, and tho lA>yd-> event has yencrjiUy Jxx.n rogajvu-d as too -short for .Murray, who is not a vory (]ii-<k bi-ginnor. Tlie fact that the ChrLstohurch roprescntativo hus b?en able to win hLi liout and secure a pJact , in tli-e iinal may be regarde-d as saiis- [ factory pr<x>f that he Ls in gfxnl trim. Korr lolt ior England a littifl lattir than I Murray, and ha.s not had .«*> much liino for training and to accustom himself to tho climatic ooncli'tioiui. lie may be o.xjx>ct<Ml to improve rapidly, provided, jte k<*op,s well, ami an he, in a Rood stayer, the evont at tho Olympic Games, which is over a ten mile course, should -ait him. Tlio chief point that exercised New Zenkvmiens was as to wh«th«r l:;s stylo would pass, and evidently he has passed the ordeal satisfactorily. It is expected that Guy Haskins, a Christchurch middle, and long-distaneo ninner, who ha,s been studying at the University of Pennsylvania, and A. K. M. Rowland, tho ex-ehainnion walker of New Zealand, would also bo competing, but the cable gives no information in regard to them.