AMATEUR' ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 740, 12 February 1910, Page 3

AMATEUR' ATHLETICS.

THE \\ EIjLIX&TON CENTRE. meeting-.ofrthe Wellington" Centre;o! ■ :tho,Kew...;Zcaland .'Amateur social'ibii '. was.v hekl 'in the... Y.iI.C:A. rooms last;. evening,presiding. .. - ■■■ ; - The St. Patrick's - Day Celebration , askii)g : lor- permission j to* place! certaiii.;amnteiir,.events on,,peir spiiTts' 'pTogrammc' to-.-be-got .-olt" at..the •Basin J.icSorvo. : .oiii March. for. tne loarLof -the . •item' granted. .- ■■;,:■'■ ■ . ; 4t. was;'decided;.that-;. .'Hv'Burdekin.'Ol Bltlrem,' should bo one. of Ihe-.Wellmgton team.; to comp'ete-.at. ..t'ie. championship meeting at., Auckland, on condition that het .• ;- ;-- ■■■•;--liV-'-V'-'letterrstatiiig that ho. would ;be, able to arrange . the;: necessary;'leave if selected .to represent: Wellington at thechampionship; .-'meeting G'./HUrding. said "ho was regaining, , hiscl'orm, ana had done'■'a''iO- J 2-soec'. trial'.'Dvei' 100 yds:;. last satisfactory three-quarter- mile;' ■ Harding said- bo was 'in'hard;'', training,- .-ahd hoped; toj-be-in top'-forni 'for fhtf. championships. ; ;.Hc also, intimated.that ho: could .get tbc.'necessary-! leave jtoscompete, at tho. Civil. Ser- , vice -Sports,' meeting;.':but financial.' con-;siderations;might-;interf.ere with tho- trip. ... '.The programme : for ; '..thff ,-Manawata. Club's '..meeting;:; 'was : ,;;approyed; ,;'.Thfl ■gathering, ; is to, bo held on March 2. The Civil. Service Club's programme r for- Teb» ;ruary-"w-as -also-'approved.' '■:■;■ ' r.-. • Permission '/was';-, granted ijto i;the Associated Banks'. Sports, .Committee':to hold •' a-'. sports_ gathering .at ■ tho /Basin 'Eflsery* ;oii" Mai'fh 17: ■'' ■ '; i: •■' . --Tlib; VicttrjafjCollegev Club wrote stating, that it' was;-opposed;;.to an . annual levy-.b'eihg'made -for. JJarathon purposes. ; .' The- centre,'decided'/ that: it; wasfdesir-jible-'that-ra cbriferchce' ofXcentres; should Be : held ; iii ..connection with the. champibnsliip meeting.. 11 "was decided' that-tho'first, and second lhcii in' tho -Jprovincial •• championslups slioiild receive. certificates. ;j;. - ;,; AfterMiicctihg'. expense's, the.centre-has :'about--.i57 to send a T-team to-Auckland;: Jit.■ B. A. ; Guise" v'as'appointed'manager -of'-.the .team; . Messrs.-..Uuise:and Coffey. ■ were'/appoiuted delegatus - to ; tlio confer-, .'eiite.';'.'SlioiildVi&./' Coffo'y.;.bo 'unable;; to ;act,".Air,: liridge will take .Ills place. . '-.Accounts*amounting:to-J32;were passed Vol'• paymeiU'. r ._''•.; J,