AMATEUR, ATHLETICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 139, 11 December 1908, Page 7

AMATEUR, ATHLETICS.

SPORTS CARNIVAL TO-MORROW. The thirty-third sports carnival of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Club will take place to-morrow afternoon on the Athletip Park. The management has completed all arrangements for what promises to be a most successful meeting. The programme to be placed before the public includes walking, cycling, running, hurdles, and field events, for which large entries have been ieceived all round. Among the competitors will be found a number of the best of New Zealand athletes. Spectators can rely on witnessing good exhibitions in all contests. Goodbehere, Woodger (Wairarapa), Pollock, Wilton* and Cunningham, with some thirty others, will contest the 100 metres Ladies' Bracelet (109 yards 1 foot). As this race appears early on the programme the public who I ,wish to see the contest will need to be ' at the Athletic Park soon after 2.15 p.m. the commencement of the sports. Mr. A. J/ AbboLL, president of the club, ■will present (.he bracelet, to the winner *mmediatiily after 1 the race is won. In the distance events, are Bnrge, New Zealand's champion miler, and Mulcahy, five mile provincial champion. L. M'Kay and H. E. Kerr, Australasian and New Zeaiand champions, in walks and jumps, etc., will contest these branches of athletics. The liitter will endeavour to beat Larner's time, put up in 3500 metres, at the Olympic Games. Probably for the first time in New Zealand the finishes of the races will be judged on the worsted, instead of tape. Some doubt has bsen expressed as to the wisdom of holding the sports on the Athletic Park, but it is explained that the seating accommodation there is ample, and the running track is probably one of the best obtainable in the Dominion. A band will be in attendance, and the committee is making arrangements to provide afternoon tea. Mr. R. Coombes, editor of the Sydney Referee, who had made arrangements to be present at the meeting, finds that he will be unable to get back from Wanganui until the sculling championship is decided.

Plums for the purses of the purchasing public 13 the theme of C. Smith's special notice on page 4. A host of bai gains suitable for gifts are now offered, and no one should miss this opportunity to buy cheaply. — Advt. A little man stepped in tho shop, And said : "Now, you be sure To givo mo what I ask for pop, That's Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. It's no uso to try and force On mo some other class, For though I am a liltlo hoarse, I'm not a little ass." —Advt.