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The Otagb Centre will stage another evening meeting to-night, and next week’s - fixture will ho the last until after the holidays. The second scratch meet of the season will be held at. the Caledonian Ground on Saturday. Much has been written and said about style, but it all amounts to this (writes Lieutenant-colonel W. K. Duckett, in ‘ How to Succeed in Athletics ’): Lon ruing to get the best results ■with the least amount of effort. ‘ This is not an easy lesson to learn: Weeks and months of practice are often necessary

to learn a correct style. Do a little practice as often as you can. Several short practices do more good than a few long ones. Don’t begin your training with the idea that you are going to win a race or jump higher than someone else. Make up your minds you are going to run or jump correctly. The difficulty of judging a close finish when competitors did not wear their club colours or numbers was remarked on at a meeting of the Canterbury Amateur Athletic Centre last week, and the secretary was instructed to write to-'the various clubs, asking them to compel 'their members to wear club colours and numbers. Similar trouble has been experienced in Dunedin, and it was decided some time ago that runners who did not wear their numbers in a race should be disqualified. A high jumper of distinct promise is E. S. Phillips, who won the high jump in the interclub scratch meeting at the Basin Reserve last Monday evening with a jump of oft Sin, five inches higher than the jump of the second man (says the ‘ Dominion’). Phillips comes from Napier, and should provide T. J. Crowe with some excellent competition before the season is over. Victoria appears to.have unearthed a champion sprinter in embryo in D. Best, who, because of the fact that his club, Kew, is not blessed with other first-class runners and field games men, has to confine his activities to D grade events. He has already attracted attention by his good sprinting, and on a recent Saturday he won the 100yds in 9 4-ssec, equalling the. time set up by Howard Yates in the A grade event a short while before. At the same meeting Gerald Backhouse (who had such a rare tussle with L, G. M‘Lachlan in the mile event at the Centenary Games) won the mile in the comparatively slow time of 4min 34 4-ssec. C, H. Matthews and T.■ G. Broadway, who will probably be Canterbury’s two candidates for Olympic honours, are turning out regularly, but are still doing very light work. Broadway has run in the sprints, and Matthews is taking the mile very easily. Included among the “ new faces ” at the opening of the athletic season in Hastings was E. Lunn, the former Canterbury College and Christchurch hurdler and middle-distance runner. He is now teaching out in the country, and his enthusiasfil is indicated by the fact that to take part in the weekly meetings at Hastings and Napier he has to travel 30 miles. Fred Wooclhouse, the Australian pole vault champion, who was unable to accept the invitation to tour Otago and Southland over the holidays, wrote to the local centre, stating that a trip to New Zealand is regarded a-s a treat

by Australians, and would be considered doubly so by him as his father is a New Zealander, having come from New Plymouth. Jack Metcalfe often talked about his trip a. few seasons back. Ho said that the hospitality, the scenic beauty of the Dominion, and the interest displayed made the tour even more enjoyable than the Empire Games trip. Woodhouse started well this season by clearing 13ft.