SCHOOL ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1606, 25 November 1912, Page 7

SCHOOL ATHLETICS.

; NORTH CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION. , ' (By Telegraph—Press Association! : ' " Christchurch, November 24. ' -The thirteenth animal sports' meeting " of the North Canterbury Publio Schools : Amateur Athletio Association, was held at ' Lancaster . Park, yesterday, .in perfect I summei' weather. The fields were bigger alii round than they were last year, and. the-finishes were remarkably. closb,; con-. ' sideling the varying sizes of the boys and ' girls "that tho age-limit groups together. After a :maTch-past ,by, the ..cadets," ' 'Colonel Smytlic- briefly addressed the officers.. It was, he said," always a pleasure '' io him to see small boys, and those whom' ite had seen that day had marched, past '' in a way that.had pleased liira vwy much.: I They had been clean and tidy, well turned out, and well versed in ; their drill. 1 Theft officers would soon not be required !■ for the work they had been doing, but he understood that a number ol them would ' come into tho senior cadets, and ho hoped ; that-they; would. ' The training 'of ' the 1 boys they had seen' that dtiy did them great credit, and he hoped they'wo,uld . expend the samfe time and energy on the senior, cadets.. ■, ■ . ! "The money taken at the gates amounted 1 to ,£lO9 Sis'. 9d.-, and altogether 7887 persons' 1 passed .through the turnstiles. The points scored by the various schools in the chanii pionship challeiige.shield-presented, by Mr. ' L. B. Wood were:—Mansts, '48- points: : -West Christchurch, 26; Lyttelton District ; High -School, ,34; Bast Christchurch and • Ashbhrton, each 13; Opawa', 11; North Linwood; 10;■ Phillipstown, 9; Sydenham, ■ Addington, New Brighton, Cust, and East Oxford; each >5; Richmond and Woolston, each. 4; West Lyttelton, 2; and Elmwood, ■ i; The shield) was won last -year by East Christchnrch. - , : The, points in ;tbe competition for the girls' challenge- shield were:—Woolston, 48; Elmwood, '20; Wharenui, 19; Papanni; 15; .East Christchurch and Pliillipstowii, i eachW; Waltham, 13; Sydenham, 8j South Belt and Belfast, each 5; Lyttelton and Somerfield, each 3; and Burwood, | Norriial, St. Albans, and Addington, each 1. ' ; ' -' ' ■ ■ ' . .