ATHLETICS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 87, 11 January 1928, Page 7

ATHLETICS

. FORTHCOMING FIXTURES. January 16—Lower Hutt Recreation ground (evening). January ’2l—Electric light meeting at

Basin Reserve. January 22—. Meeting at Masterton. January 28—Lower Hutt Recreation

Ground (afternoon). February B—Lower Hutt Recreation Ground (afternoon). February 11 —Wellington Provincial Championships. February 29 —Lower Hutt Recreation Ground (afternoon).

Triangular Contests. At a conference of delegates from the Lower Hutt Club, Petone Club, and the Hutt Valley Harrier Club, it was decided to inaugurate triangular contests with a view to stimulating interest among local athletes. A programme of three meetings was drawn up, the first being held on the Lower Hutt Re; creation Ground on Monday, January 16, at 7 p.m. The events for this meeting are as follow; 100 yards, 880 yards, 100 yards junior, 75 yards ladies, half-mile cycle, two-mile cycle. boys* race, relay race (four 100’s). These events will be confined to registered members of the above clubs. An entrance fee of 6d. will be charged .for each meeting (for any number of events) and no trophies will be given. It is proposed to procure a cup, which will be held by the club obtaining most points at these meetings. Further meetings will be held on February 8 (controlled by the Hutt Valley Harriers) and on February 29 (by the Petone A.A.C.). The Lower Hutt Club arc holding an afternoon meeting on the Recreation Ground on Saturday, January 28, at 2.30 p.m. There is a full programme.

Paraparaumu Form. The ninth annual sports gathering conducted bv the Paraparaumu Sports Club was held on New Year’s Day, and a good muster of athletes from town made the trip out. Unfortunately, there were a lot of scratchings, and consequently the field events were contested by only a few athletes. The Olympic Club was well represented by C. Campbell, H. Gordon, E. Parker, G. Gordon, W. Scents, and D. 'Paris in the senior events; and A, Glover-, R. Sceats and A. Hill in the junior events. The club’s star performers met with little success in the handicap events, however. Z. Parker’s Promise. E. Parker ran well for his first time on a track, and no doubt will. show better form next season. The two junior runners went well, and A. Glover secured third place in the 100 yards and second place in the half-mile. This boy shows exceptional promise. A. Hill, another junior, is a great little athlete. Competing in the boys’ walk, he won fairly easily from scratch, and in the open mile walk, against seniors, he won narrowly from Silver. In the shot putt he threw 21-odd feet and gained second place, n good performance for a youth.

Paris Should Sprint. D. Paris won the shot putt and the scratch post entry 120 hurdles event. If this athlete intends to return to athletics he would do better at sprinting, ns bis most ardent- admirers could not describe his achievements in the shot and hurdles as up to secondary school standard.

The main event on the programme was a popular triumph for (he Olympic Club. This was the one mi'e medley scratch re-j-iy ’•ace. The merit ’of Olympic’s performance can lie gauged from the fact that they defeated the Wellington Club’s, team, comprising Cole, Bird, Fleming and Jenkins, by a good seven yards. Jenkins Picks Up Two runners stood out prominently in this event —C. Campbell, Olympic’s halt--miler, who led Cole home by 4u yards in ttio half mile part of the relay race, and C. 11. Jenkins, the Wellington Club’s star sprinter, who was 26 odd yards behind Paris vi»vn the batons were exchanged for the last furlong. Jenkins ran very , well and was only some seven yards away at the finish.

Tho Olympic Club’s team was Campbell, H. Gordon, G. ' Gordon and D. Paris, and on the day, especially on the Paraparaumu track, it wou d have taken a good team to defeat them. With the cbacliing they are receiving the Olympic men are ouickly coming into prominence in athletics, and next season will Be exceptionally strong. Carlton Again. Fresh from the crossing of the Tasman. it. was great form for the New South Wales star sprinter, Jimmy Carlton, to cover the 100 metres in llsec. in the Australian Olympic trials on Saturday. The time suggests that Carlton was littlp affected by the crossing, anil makes it plain that in. this eightcen-,year-old New South Wales has a man who is probably het best sprinter to date.

Olympic Trials. It is interesting to see that A. J. Watson, the Victorian, won the 110 metres hurdles, for Watson was not up to tlie best of th« men he met in New Zealand . A. Walker (N.S.W.) certainly ueserved the win which ho got in tlie 200 metres, for the running lie did on this side was consistent and revealed a pretty style . C. Stuart’s 2min. 6sec. for 5?.e 800 'metres make him an Olympic certainty, while it was something of a surprise to see that L. Mason beat ■Xtvldson in the high jump, creating a nMv State record of 6ft. 2in. At Athletic Park Davidson, despite his youth, looked a better jumper than Mason, and must have been a little below par.