AMATEUR ATHLETICS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 126, 31 May 1938, Page 18

AMATEUR ATHLETICS

HARRIER AFFAIRS

CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE

It was decided last night by the harrier sub-committee of the Wellington centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association that the provincial championship course this year hould be on the St. Patrick's College irounds at Silverstream. The chairnan, Mr. R. Spence, said that the | authorities were agreeable to grant the harrier movement the right to use the (course and the facilities available at the college for dressing-rooms and shower baths. He said that the course was ideal for harrier requirements. A working bee will be held at Silverstream on June 12 to put the course in order. It was decided that November 5 be the date of the provincial marathon, the course to be from the Basin Reserve to Point Howard and back. Three officials of the harrier sub-com-mittee will measure the course. The West Coast (North Island) centre wrote stating that the Wellington subcommittee's suggestion that a harrier race should be arranged between teams from the Wellington and West Coast centres was welcomed by the West Coast centre. Th» Wellington letter had been sent on to the six harrier clubs in the West Coast centre. It was suggested that Wellington should take a team from, say, each of as many clubs as could make the journey to Wanganui and that a team from as many of the clubs as the West Coast centre could arrange would then compete in a club teams contest, which could be run in conjunction with an inter-centre teams race. Each centre could be represented by 'four clubs, eight teams to compete in the club contests, and from each of the four teams the centres could select a team of six to count for points in the inter-centre race. A sub-committee consisting of Messrs. R. Spence, J. A. Armstrong, and A. G. Bagnall was set up to go into the matter. It was decided to hold the race for the Dome Cup at Hutt Park on June 18. The action of the secretary in forwarding the following letter to the Wellington centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association was approved: "The sub-committee have been informed unofficially that the date set down for the New Zealand crosscountry championships by the West Coast (North Island) centre Is now September 10. In view of our former objection to September 3, the sub-com-mittee now wish to register an emphatic protest against the race being held on September. 10. No reason is seen why the event cannot be set down for the middle of August, the normal time. Failing a change to some more reasonable date, the committee wish to recommend that the race be allocated to a centre willing to hold it at the usual time." The Presbyterian Club was granted permission to hold 'its annual race with the Presbyterian clubs of Auckland, Canterbury, and Greymouth, at Wellington on July 30. The Scottish Club was given permission to change its run on June 25 from Lyall Bay to Miramar. The following transfers were approved:—A. J. Mackay, T. Strong, L. McAuley, V. Dromgoole, E. Willets, R. McCarthy, A. McCallum, from Wellington Amateur Athletic Club to the Wellington Harrier Club; J. Murray, A. Robinson, W. Owens, from Kiwi to Wellington; C. M. Brown and W. A. Brown, from Olympic to Scottish; V. Thompson and L. Taylor, from Kiwi to Scottish; A. A. Bourgeois, from Wellington to Scottish.