SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WELLINGTON RACING CLUB BACKS DOWN. As a result of another meeting of tho stewards of the Wellington Racing Club, it was decided to forego their original decision to abolish the telegraph office on the Hutt racecourse. The stewards have intimated to the Postmaster-General that the telegraph office will be kept open as usual. SWIMMING. A Committee meeting of the Dunedin Amateur Swimming Club was held last evening, when arrangements were made for the tournament to be held on February 16. In addition to a series of distance races, it was resolved to hold a life-saving competition, open to members of the club only. The secretary reported that over twenty members had joined the club since last meeting. It was resolved to ask 1 on© of the city bands to play at the tournament. At the Napier Recreation Ground on Monday the spectators saw a specimen of free hitting when the brothers Mills, batting for Auckland against Hawke’s Bay, ran up 105 runs in forty minutes, which ‘is probably a record for the ground.
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Evening Star, Issue 11451, 19 January 1901, Page 4
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