INTER-COLLEGE ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 8

INTER-COLLEGE ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS.

[BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHCRCH, This Day. The inter-college athletic champion»hips are being decided at Lancaster Park to-day. Heavy raiii fell during the night*, and is still falling, co that the track is slippery, and the *>lo\v time* for the distances are wonderfully good considering the circumstances. Opie, from a poor Murt, broke Moyen's record for the 220 yds by one-filth of a second, winning by ten yards. The results to the luncheon adjournment wero :—: — One Mile. — L. A. Dougall (Canterbury), 1 ; T. Rigg (Victoria*}, 2. Only finishers. | Won by ten yards. Time, 4min 37 1-5 iec. Putting 16lb Shot.— Grace (Canterbury), 31ft 2in, 1; C. V. Baigent (Otago), 29ft Biin, 2; W. H. Wills (Auckland), 29ft sin, 3. Long Jump. — J. N. MiUard (Otago), 20ft lm,l; G. S. Mackenzie (Canterbury), 19ft lin, 2 ; A. H. Bogle (Victoria). 18ft Him, 3. 220 yds Flat.— R. Opie (Canterbury), 1 ; A. T. Duncan (Victoria), 2 ; L. 11. M'Bride (Otago), 3. Time, 23 2-s»ec, a new record. AFTER MANY YEARS. TALK WITH AN OLD SKIPPER. After about thirty yearn' absence from New Zealand, Captain Mackay, of the steamer .Strathearn, is back again. He was heie in the Ben venue thiity years ago, when the New Zealand Company owned a line of fleet clippers circumnavigating the globe year after >ear in almost steamer-like regularity. Eighteen mouths after Captain Mackay, not then a shipmaster, left the Ben venue, that i Upper of old days piled herself up on the beach near Timaru, wheie her timbers bleach and moulder and her ironwork rusts to this day. Things have changed since then. "Is that the old T wharf!" asked Captain Mackay of a Post reporter to-day, pointing shore wards from the Glasgow Wharf. "1 haven't been ashore yet, so I don't know. Thing* have changed very much. Th» place look? very busy now, tomething different from the days when we (i.«cd to load wool and tallow and hide* in our sailing ships." After a few further question* to enable him to ascertain the whereabout! of certain friends of hi*, the captain discufsed shipping, and mentioned that h'» own line — the Strath Line — had developed tremendoiuly in the last four years since it wn* established. The Strathearn was tho first vessel, and now there were 27— 22 built in two years, io*tini> over * million ut money. They traded all over th« world, tramping from port to port, picking up and dropping cargo, as the old wiTing ships d"id. All the boats carry Chinese crews. The Chinese give no trouble, and do tho work satisfactorily. "Every shipmaster would rather carry men of his own race, if he could," said Captain Mackay, "but with tho British sailor there was no peace for the- Kkipper in port. It was one Ion» series of 'troubles. Half his time had to be spent in the police courts, looking after hi* men. Sailors are not what they were in the old sailing ship days. Tho Chinaman is quite ea«y to manage — no trouble whatever, docile and only wanting to go ashore for a little while to buy a change of fowl. It u» the Biitish jailor's own fault that it has come to thin — that there are practically no Biitish sailor* nowadays." Captain Matkay mentioned, too, how the iohl .strike had diminished and dislocated business. He told how he loaded a cargo of «oal in Wales and took it to Durban, and then on to Colombo. Hearing there that the toal stiike at Newcastle was not over, as he had understood, he sailed from Colombo .to Australia, making a \oyagp of 16,000 miles with a «.argo of coal.