ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 805, 30 April 1910, Page 12

ATHLETICS.

(By "Mercury.")

But for harrierism amateur athletics is now a closed book. The local "rift in the lute is in a fair way to be closed up; again, tho W.A.A.C. being prepared, in the interests of the sport, not to push its very justifiable objection to the Wellington Centre's recent motion proposed b /, Mr - J - S. Robinson. That is to raj, 11 the centre will give the club an assurance that-no censure upon, its, officials in connection with the invitation sent to Dave" Wilson to meet Kerr in Wellington was intended. If the members of the centre have been sincere in their subsequent explanations unit the motion objected to was meant to apply generally, and had no personal implication to the officers of the W.A.A.C. fc'hen it was carried, there should bo no hesitation in giving the club 'the re>iuired assurance upon which the whole unfortunate business—the most untacti'nl idece of legislation which the Wellington Centre has been guilty pf—should ho buried, My esteemed Harrier correspondent sends' the subjoined remarks on last Saturday's outings:-"Last Saturday's harrier runs were well attended by memnnrs ■iif both the Wellington and Brooklyn Uubs, the latter having a record attendance. Karori was the assembling P' a «® for the oldoo club, and, in fact/ lit tho blaok weather, a good muster of twenty-five .runnors put in an appearance. '-.•'■ "Thei hares '(Rowberry and Salek) had their labours all in vain, as the. wind scattered the trail to such purpose that !?"owiriS it wus soon found to be unpraeticable, and, as ihe hares had disappeared together with the trail the pacemaker for the day (C. Lamherg) was deputed to select, a course without searching foi the ■ missing' ones. J!f climb ."P a clean spur to the west of Karon, was followed by some good running, over ideal going, in the direction of Makara and a return for home was made via the Karori recreation ground and Mam Road. "R Bust again showed,his heels to Ihu pack in the 'run in' »t the finish, although Chartres was very handy at tho finishing post, while Press emerged from throughout the run no trace was seen of teS't'T , bn , t ifc was ""awards learned hat they had c&verert the emu,tljr en the eastern side of the suburb th" pach" 1^05 - 8 .**■ dirCction »»££"& "Brooklyn Harriers were more sncctsamj(rt? UP *be twUJMd byTheir "V 1 "' 'Uelanay nud'S. Murray), wh" A pit* 'if ? arori - Starting at Thornlo i-Baths their trail, through Wadestown in a southerly direct on, afterwards doubling back to Croftcn, and «T,Z (Li b 'Y hs ,- ■ was taken of he long straight run along the Esn anade ! U ±iV ,*■"£"? run in, anf after f;p. od , tuafle, the first three-places "-era '"ejice from Worser Bay." ' ■ c ? m - Tor W< "J*' I *', a world's record-holder: and. Deceased, who was n his; Cist voir had been a teetotaller. Our changes refer to Buckler as befng u£ ,nl te S <?? ra ?, st romarkablf Tong-dS le^r destl - a 1 tho world has ever seorf He won. a great "number of go!a's:Vou" please matches against American Cani 'Han, and. British champions 'Ho set MLV* 5M ra . ite within a week and actually covered 506 miles in the specified time. On a previous occas on vnlti?r r f d 5 ? miles a dR y «« 12 hours! uilking for six consecutive days; and later on walked 53 miles a day untkr the same conditions and same number of days, restricting the, time to 1« * s ° nlwi U H iT lefc m 1898 ho eclipsed Wm.Gales world's, record by tramping 1(100 WW ei.Bui« , n 4i,00 conseiiutivS £r2 of rime minutes. >He received I gold siftriM euineas as a r^'" ' This recalls some other long-distance fee s of walk tug that have become almost' hstoncal. -Thus it is on reoord tha?D 1000 consecutive hours a mile in each hour) at Cincinnati, U.S.A., in 1907 h , Z rd Pa y so ?Weston walked 3000 miles Mvi o °,rr , &T h . OUIS at Newcastle-ou-wM J ?$n and) d ? nn S.lß7B. W. Buckler walked 41)00 quarter-miles h- 4000 consecutive periods of Omin. 15sec. enchant Leeds (%'laud) during 1898. . Caphhi Barclay Allard.ce (who always competed un*!i ><< iMUiio of Barclay; walked inou ! "and) in iS. * NewmMket < F'»S- !'■ Melbourno has.a club for the encouragement of walking, both road and track and. it is doing excellent work in popularising pedestriauism in: Victoria. (On ' baturday week a competition was hold which might be noted by some of our clubs as a suitable event,for tbp.fortt, 1 coming season at an evening meeting on the Basin.Reserve, "Harrier," in the Australasian," thus describes the contests:- the Melbourne Amateur Tom- - ing and Walking Club met with a good response to their proposal for a 10-mile track walk. The entries totalled 24, -l jvhom 17 started ~tad an excellent contest resulted, at. the Amateur Sports Ground last Saturday. A. 0. Ryan (L w Melbourne) was on scratch,' the starts ranging up 'to 12jmin. W. Alurrw (tain.) held the scratch man for no less than six miles. , He, Ryan, and Grigg showed absolutely fair pacing, but Barnard s gait was not quite . so satisfnc-: ton,. Many of the-others were making a first attempt, and of' these ' J. (: Lamond, a fine-built athlete,- did best while R. Bain again showed pluck and stamina. f There ,were several men in the hold worth the attention of our honorar. coach, Mr. A. O. Barrett, arm it mav safely be said the exhibition of walking lost Saturday was ao fine as wc have *eon in Melbourne for some time past Tho winner was W. Murray, who beat E, Barnard .by about CO yards, with A. C Ryan third.. The winner's actual time was lh. 2ornin. 40scc. Ryan's time was Ih. 24mm. «sec, which beats the 10 mile walking record made by J. M'Donald on May 12, 1903, who did the distance in lh. 2omm. 32soc. World's amateur record is lh. lomiu. 37 4-ssec, by G. E. Lamer, oh a much superior track." . 1 * A \h Pa Tiß '\ n<J " figures of 57 2-ssec. for the 440 yards hnrdles, established in Melbourne last Saturday will'give our ft- Aubyn. Murray something -to do to better it. It is a sterling performance,' and congratulations to the young Victorian are very much in order. Alfred Shrubb, the famous British runnor, will not race again. Ho is seeking to obtain| the athletic directorship of one of the American universities. He says he is afraid to run in anv more important contests lest lie'should break down. He feels that he is no longer up to his old form, and he attributes the collapse to his participation in Marathon races,- which were really' beyond the distances for jvhich he had previously shown special oapacity, and, therefore, they entailed to 6everc a strain upon him. Shrubb is now living in Toronto, and is said to have saved i'MOO. ~ Commenting on a report, of R. Ope's performances in tho university championships, "Prodigal," in the "Sydney iiefereu, saye:-"If Opie ran 100 yds on a. heavy and greasy track against the wind in one yard outside evens, the performance was, ns the writer says, 'little short of wonderful.' By the wav, Opie n'.so won the 220 yards in 23 2-ssec, and (he -MO yards in 51 3-5 sec. In his heat of the 100 yards he won in 10 l-ssec. .H? also run 410 yards in the relay race, ami thus had » big. day's work. Good find all as Opie is, I must confess to doubting that 10 1-lOscc. By the way, wluil sort of 11 learn will the Dominion have for the. next Australasian cliniiipionsliips? Looks, just at present, ns if tlic ton in will be-strong .enough to bent I In- i.'ciimiiouwcdlth State loams combined.