ATHLETIC SEASON

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 22

ATHLETIC SEASON

START WITH COACHING

LABOUR DAY SPORTS

Although Hataitai Park is not yet available, the Wellington Amateur Athletic Centre has been able to make arrangements with the Director of Parks and Reserves for the use of the Pirie Street Reserve in the meantime for training and coaching under the centre coach, Mr. A. L. Fitch. For the next three weeks or so coaching and training will be carried out at Pirie Street on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. ■>

The programme for the Labour Day sports meeting, which for years past has provided Wellington athletes with early-season competition, has been drawn up, and as usual it will provide plenty to interest competitors, including cyclists. Labour Day this year is on October 24, and entries for the sports meeting close at James Smith's, Ltd., mercery department on October 14," Trophies ranging in value from 10s for third place to four guineas for first place in one event—the 100 yards women's handicap—are to be awarded. In addition to the track events, a marathon over the full distance of 26 miles is to be held in conjunction with the meeting. The. value of the trophies, for this are, first £4, second £1 10s, and third 15s.

The track events are as follows: — 100 yards, 220 yards, junior 100 yards, 880 yards, women's 75 and 100 yards, three miles^, one mile cycle, 880 yards cycle, three miles cycle, and a miss-and-out cycle race.

The conditions governing the trophies are that there must be six entries or .there will be no second prize and eight entries or no third prize.