INTER-UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC SPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 12162, 5 April 1904, Page 3

INTER-UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC SPORTS.

The athletic sports were concluded yesteri?J The evenU were got off m excellent tame, and without hitch. Mr W Wl!'"" 51 !? 5 * 1 was , indefatigable and unfair ingly courteous. The positions of the competing colleges were determined by the number of points gained by each. The method of scoring was:—lst place. 6 points; 2nd place, 3 points; 3rd place, 1 point. Canterbury college again succeeded in wresting the victory. There is no doubt that theydre a very fine combination, and in Moyes thev nave a first-lass athlete. The following are the points scored by each College:— Canterbury College, 52 points 1 Otago University, 44 points o Auckland U. College, 19 points ' ." "' 3 Victoria College, 5 points .„ ... „". 4 Appended are particulars cf the afternoon events: High Jump Championship (present cham?i? n ', I Pf 1? V l C ? ok ' C - C -'> b est performance, M l 4 ? 0 (C. Col.), sft 2in, 1; Hull Auck), 4ft 11m, 2; Poster (C. CoLl 4ft lUin, o. Championship (present champion, Stabberfield C.C.; best performance, 7min 30isec.—Holderness (C.C.) 1, Tudhooe (Vic Col.) 2, Webb (Otago) 3. Time! TmLr! 44-sSec. 440 yds Plat Chmnpionship (present champion, Moyes, C.C.; record, 51fsec).—Moyes (C.C.) 1, Hay (Ancle) 2, Parkinson (Otago) 3. Time 52|sec. 75yds Inter-University Handicap.—-Firmer (C.C, syds) 1, Kitchingham (7yds) 2, Miller (6yds) 3. Time, B|sec. 120 yds Hurdle Championship^—Final heatO'Kane (Otago) 1, Gatland (Auck.) 2, Buck (Otago) 3. Time, 17|sec In this race a protest entered against O'Kane on the ground of crossing at one of the hurdles was dismissed by the judges. One-mile Flat Championship (present champion, Davie, Otago: best performance, 4min 41fsec).—Foster (C.C.) 1, Davie (Otago) 2, De La Mare (V.C.) 3. Time, 4min 40sec 440 yds Hurdles Championship fpresent champion, Henderson, Vic CoL; record, 62? sec).—O'Kane (Otago) 1, Rice (CO) 2, Gatland (Auck.) 3. Time, 62fsec Hop, Step, and Jump Handicap (open to all amateurs).—W. M. Thomson (Otago, 6ft), 44ft, 1: Sellar (C.C., 7ft), 58ft 6in, 2. Relay Race, one mile; open to teams from competing Colleges (present holders of Relay Cup, C.C.).—Two teams—Otago and Canterbury College—started. They were represented as follows •—C.C.: Hallet, Kissel, Foster, Moyes. Otago: Patrick Johnson, O'Kane, Mikoy. Canterbury College won. Time, 3mm 41£ sec Tug-of-War (open to teams of 8 men chosen from the representatives of each College).— Three teams —Otago, Victoria College, and Canterbury College—competed, and the latter CoHego again vindicated their supremacy.